severity 163116 important merge 400664 163116 thanks On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:07:06PM +0100, Heiner Markert wrote:
> nis starts after the automounter starts (both are S19 in rc2.d). This > breaks automounts via nis (automount: nis in /etc/nsswitch.conf). > I don't know whether this is a bug in autofs or in nis, but on the autofs > page bugs.debian.org/autofs there is a bug listed where they state that > this is actually a nis bug, on nis, however, I did not find a corresponding > bug report. Look more closely, there's 163116 which has several autofs bugs CCed (though they appear to have been closed for some reason). Unfortunately the autofs maintainer closed those bugs by moving the autofs init script which makes this more pressing than it had been. Sadly this is the first I've heard of it. This needs coordinination over several packages: NIS can't move any earlier at present due to portmap starting at S18, which it requires, and can't split the init script easily since NIS sytems are frequently their own client. It seems at the minute that the best solution is for portmap to move earlier in the init sequence so NIS can move to S18 or earlier. Failing that autofs should be pushed back up the ordering, for example with a workaround like using S199. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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