** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ On a system which uses both NIS and NFS, a boot-time NFS mount can trigger 
portmap to be started before the local filesystem is mounted, resulting in 
ypbind also starting prematurely.  The portmap job needs to set an environment 
variable so ypbind knows not to start yet.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ 1. Configure a system with NFS mounts that are mounted at boot time and which 
is configured to use a NIS domain.
+ 2. Boot the system with the rpcbind package in precise-updates.  Verify that 
ypbind does not start up correctly.
+ 3. Upgrade to rpcbind from precise-proposed.
+ 4. Reboot the system and verify that ypbind consistently starts up correctly.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ None that I can see.  The only change is to export a variable to the upstart 
event which was always supposed to be there.  In theory this could cause some 
jobs to now start *later* than expected, but I'm only aware of NFS and NIS jobs 
that are affected by portmap.
+ 
  I am managing about 20 Ubuntu Computers since release 5.04 and have the 
strong feeling, that problems are increasing rapidly from one distribution 
upgrade to anoter. Non of my LTS version upgrades works out of the box today. 
The main problems I have, is to upgrade or install the nis package. I cannot 
login anymore after the upgrade to 12.04 (neither from last LTS-Version, nor 
from Version 11.10). After a complete uninstallation of the nis and the 
network-manager package nis works more or less, but I have to restart it 
manually after every reboot.
  I tried also a complete new installation, but nis also doesn't work there. 
After I installed NIS pagage on a fresh Ubuntu system, I cannot login anymore. 
Computers are booting, no graphical desktop manager comes up, only console with 
login promt. And after login, no shell comes up.
  
  And this happens one month after a new LTS release. I am not amused and
  testing and thinking now about a change to Fedora Linux. I have the
  feeling that Ubuntu developers focuses only to single computer
  installations, disregards networking abilities and has a lot of problems
  with upstart, that I still not really understand.
  
  :<
  Alex

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