Jacques, Ditto for rpcbind patch not being enough. I have traced the issue via syslogs to nis starting too early, before kernel has brought network interfaces up. **If** the network interfaces get up "fast", then boot succeeds. Otherwise nfs fails and nameserver might never be there, and userids are unavailable, etc. You may boot after the 5 min network timeout, but with drastically reduced service.
What follows makes things work, but is UGLY and not the "right way". -------------------------------------------------------------------- At our site IT recommends static ips set up with /etc/network/interfaces, and the HACK I suggested involves overriding the default 'systemctl cat nis.service' to put it after ifup@IFACE.service and before NetworkManager.service. This works, but is not a correct solution, because nis is starting after ifup starts but before kernel reports the interface as 'ready'. I also aid the boot by putting into 'interfaces' a "post-up systemctl restart nis", just in case, and help some of the other packages a bit by supplying dns-nameserver clause, and finally attempted to cover my a** with an additional system-ctl add-wants NetworkManager.service nis.service Now system boots with nis maybe 6 times in a row, and without timeouts, and all nis stuff available -- good enough for me, but not generic since ifup may not be there at your place. I have NOT tested whether putting nis after (or maybe "Also") with NetworkManager.service works, and if that worked, it might be a more general solution. -----For example only: kruus@snake10$ cat nis.service # /run/systemd/generator.late/nis.service # Generated by [on a default install] # systemctl cat nis.service > /etc/systemd/system/nis.service # and some light editing. # # Also see the ifup dependency patched into # /etc/systemd/system/nis.service.d/ifup.conf # that reflects the static nec-labs route you set up in # /etc/network/interfaces [Unit] Documentation=man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) SourcePath=/etc/init.d/nis Description=LSB: Start NIS client and server daemons. Before=multi-user.target Before=graphical.target Before=NetworkManager.service Before=remote-fs.target After=rpcbind.target After=network-pre.target # NO! After=remote-fs.target # NO! Wants=network-online.target [Install] WantedBy=NetworkManager.service # NO! WantedBy=nss-user-lookup.target [Service] Type=forking Restart=no TimeoutSec=5min IgnoreSIGPIPE=no KillMode=process GuessMainPID=no RemainAfterExit=yes ExecStart=/etc/init.d/nis start ExecStop=/etc/init.d/nis stop ExecReload=/etc/init.d/nis reload /etc/systemd/system kruus@snake10$ cat nis.service.d/ifup.conf [Unit] After=ifup@eno1.service Wants=ifup@eno1.service # ^^^^ your main network interface HERE. /etc/systemd/system kruus@snake10$ cat /etc/network/interfaces # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto enp14s0 iface enp14s0 inet static address 138.15.169.213 <snip-snip -- boring snake08--snake10 point-to-point on second port> auto eno1 iface eno1 inet static address 138.15.169.213 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 138.15.169.254 # below is not required for general use: metric 50 #dns-search nec-labs.com #dns-nameservers 138.15.108.11 138.15.200.9 #post-up systemctl restart nis && echo "ifup: NIS restarted" || echo "ifup: FAILED NIS restart" Note that I have only a systemd patch working, and NONE of my earlier /etc/network/interfaces helper hacks, such as dns-search, or dns-nameservers, or post-up systemctl restart nis ... Success measured by: - no 5 minute timeouts in boot - boot accepts NIS user login. - syslog doesn't look too bad any more. - badness: - depends on ifup and interface name - nis starts when ifup begins, not when ifup ends with kernel report 'device ready' Comment: Some difficulty from systemd using old init.d nis and networking scripts. It would be nice to have an "net-interface-up.target" in systemd, somewhere between network-pre.target and network-online(?) but this gets a bit more involved. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558196 Title: ypbind not able to socket activate rpcbind under systemd, fails at boot unless something else starts rpcbind To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nis/+bug/1558196/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs