I am having similar issues concerning nis after upgrading to ubuntu
12.04
ypbind does not start on boot.
The status command does not show a running process
service ypbind status
ypbind start/running
nor
ps -A | grep ypbind
I inserted
exec /var/log/nis-debug.log 21
in
alex, vagk: could each of you please set YPBINDARGS=-no-dbus -debug in
/etc/default/nis, reboot, and attach /var/log/upstart/ypbind.log so we can
see exactly what's failing?
Here is an excerpt of the /var/log/upstart/ypbind.log when it fails to
start
Setting NIS domainname to: sch.local
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I'm still lacking the debugging information to see why it's starting before
networking for you. For that I need to see the syslog output of a boot with
--verbose.
changed grub parameters to nosplash debug --verbose and I am attaching
the syslog file
Do you want also the syslog if the static ip
This shows that ypbind is being started as soon as portmap starts. But the
start condition for ypbind is:
start on (started portmap ON_BOOT=
or (started portmap ON_BOOT=y
and ((filesystem and static-network-up) or failsafe-boot)))
So it appears that portmap is being