It is really great that work is in progress I look forward to see this
bug fixed in lucid/precise! I have a small comment though: in my case
the autofs startup problem is unrelated to NIS, as I use LDAP. Out of
desperation 1.5 years ago I also experimented with flat map files on
local fs and even
I maintain a 10.04 LTS based cluster of workstations where each node is subject
to some stress and need to be restarted once in a while. Autofs maps of nfs
shares are communicated via LDAP. Autofs fails to initialize (or even start in
some rare cases) in its default configuration in about 50%
Our 10 machine system (all lucid 64-bit) also suffers from this diffuse
bug. Workaround #23 did not work, some of the machines start autofs
anyway even with start on never in /etc/init/autofs.conf . Putting
service autofs restart in /etc/rc.local works only for about half of
the machines and not
