Ubuntu 12.04 LTS support here. I can confirm this bug.  The automount service 
needs to retrieve the automount NFS maps auto_home and auto_group from LDAP 
which it is unable to do because the network isn't up yet. To make things a bit 
more complicated, these are Kerberized (krb5) NFSv4 mounts. 
After automount fails once it fails and doesn't try again when the network is 
up.
It seems to me this could be a case for upstart to enforce network being up 
before (network) automounts are attempted or automount being at least so smart 
to try again some time later or when the networks are up.
This is a serious bug in large scale Linux environments. Of course there are 
workarounds such at the ones documented in this thread, but they are ugly and 
why should every user/administrator have to reinvent the wheel when it is clear 
what the problem is?

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  autofs needs to be restarted to pick up some shares

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