diff -ur libvirt-5.10.0.orig/src/util/virutil.c libvirt-5.10.0/src/util/virutil.c
--- libvirt-5.10.0.orig/src/util/virutil.c	2019-12-08 00:45:32.458000000 +0100
+++ libvirt-5.10.0/src/util/virutil.c	2019-12-08 00:45:46.793000000 +0100
@@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@
     if (!(udev = virFindFileInPath(UDEVADM)))
         return;
 
-    if (!(cmd = virCommandNewArgList(udev, "settle", NULL)))
+    if (!(cmd = virCommandNewArgList(udev, "settle", "--timeout=10", NULL)))
         return;
 
     /*