> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 04:07:08PM -0700, Lorin Scraba wrote: > >> Setting NIS domainname to: vendio-auth. >> Starting NIS services: ypbindbinding to YP server...........[ 70.650939] >> RPC: Registered udp transport module. >> [ 70.739026] RPC: Registered tcp transport module. >> ................................failed (backgrounded). > > This is nothing to do with the portmapper, this is ypbind being unable > to communicate with a NIS server. > > I suspect that the issue is that your network connection is taking a > long time to come up. This isn't really a problem in the NIS package, > with the default network configuration method in Debian the init scripts > will bring the network up prior to NIS being started, or if you were > using Network Manager with that. Could you please confirm how your > network is configured and that it is being brought up before NIS is > started?
I am not using Network Manager. The network is configured with dhcp. I have the following in /etc/network/interfaces: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp You are right - I added a ping -c 10 <nis master> in /etc/init.d/nis and it seems the network is not initialized. Problem is in the front of the computer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
