Paul, as you've sort of guessed, your questions would be better directed
to the naming team. NIS is, and always has been, pretty insistent that
the underlying networking be up and working, and its failure mode when
it's not is pretty poor. Unfortunately, that isn't necessarily
expressible as an SMF dependency at this time, and so you can get
pathological results if your network configuration is incorrect. As
you've discovered, getting back to single-user mode is really the only
way you can correct this sort of problem at present.
Dave
On 08/19/11 12:48, Paul de Nijs wrote:
All,
I still have some major issues with bringing up my network correctly
with the sc_manifests.
I also want to add nis, dns and the correct nsswitch.conf stuff.
What bites me every time is that when I make a misconfiguration in my
network interface, and it kind of disappears, or is wrong, NIS is still
up and spitting out those messages:
NIS server not responding, still trying, not every minute or so, but
every second. Which makes IMPOSSIBLE to login into the console and fix
the problem.
Why will the service not go into maintenance mode and shut up ?, Or why
will it not just retry in lets say 5 minutes ?
The only way is to power cycle the system/ get to the OK prompt and go
into single user mode (BTW, changing the boot params for x86 in grub and
add -s, it says that it's going into single user mode, but never gets
there after 1 hour or so).
Anyway, I have the feeling (can't say for sure, because I cannot do
anything to debug this) that NIS can come up while there is no network
interface plumbed up. Is that not a dependency for NIS in SMF ?
About the "NIS server not responding" messages, it's not really new in
solaris 11, I've seen it in solaris 10 as well, but I hoped that it
would not render your system useless, and unable to fix.
Probably this is not an AI problem, but a solaris problem, so hopefully
someone can give me some pointers to the right people to fix it.
Thanks
Paul
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