bitcoind nonetheless operating after 'bitcoin-cli cease'

I am operating Debian 11, all updates put in. 12gb RAM, huge inside SSD for storage.

$ /usr/native/bin/bitcoin-25.0/bin/bitcoin-cli cease has labored effectively shutting down bitcoind on my pc till immediately, when it appears to have hanged half approach by way of the standard course of.

$ tail .bitcoin/debug.log reveals:

2023-11-27T13:51:11Z tor: Thread interrupt
2023-11-27T13:51:11Z torcontrol thread exit
2023-11-27T13:51:11Z Shutdown: In progress...
2023-11-27T13:51:11Z addcon thread exit
2023-11-27T13:51:11Z opencon thread exit
2023-11-27T13:51:11Z internet thread exit
2023-11-27T13:51:11Z msghand thread exit
2023-11-27T14:20:38Z Potential stale tip [snipped]
2023-11-27T14:31:08Z Potential stale tip [snipped]
2023-11-27T14:41:38Z Potential stale tip [snipped]

… $ ps ax | fgrep bitcoind reveals:

  1399 ?        SLl  171:06 /usr/native/bin/bitcoin-25.0/bin/bitcoind
  10818 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep -F bitcoind

… and $ high reveals:

 1399 [username]   20   0 4218920   1.0g 184480 S   0.3   8.5 171:06.03 b-shutoff

Contents of .bitcoin/ are:

    banlist.json
    bitcoin.conf
    bitcoind.pid
    blocks
    chainstate
    database
    db.log
    debug.log
    fee_estimates.dat
    mempool.dat
    friends.dat
    settings.json

… so no “lock” file seen there.

So, did I do something uncommon earlier than I entered bitcoin-cli cease? Sure, two issues I do not normally do:

Some hours earlier than the tried cease, I ran rescan, which appears to have labored completely effectively.
I used to be operating bisq once I entered bitcoin-cli cease. I’ve now closed bisq (“A bit late now!” you may say…) however the b-shutoff continues to be hung.

Would be glad about any ideas, or questions you might need that would assist me out closing the daemon gracefully.