On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 02:25:02PM -0000, vagk wrote: > I changed the interfaces file to get static ip and retried.
This should not matter because dhclient doesn't return control to ifupdown until it successfully acquires an IP. > It failed but for a different reason. > My /etc/yp.conf has no direct ip but a cname > ypserver nisserver > When networking got up /etc/resolv.conf was empty and that is because > resolvconf package deleted the information that the last dhclient command > wrote to /etc/resolv.conf That's because you had invalid network configuration information: you were no longer using DHCP, but had not specified another source for DNS server information. > So I removed package resolvconf (which I don't like in lab setups, same > as network-manager) and voila! resolvconf is the supported mechanism for managing /etc/resolv.conf in 12.04. Outside of your experiments here for debugging, I strongly advise that you keep it installed. > I rebooted and now I there was a 10 second delay before lightdm started > and ypbind got running. What is the system doing during this 10 second delay? > Static IP on /etc/network/interfaces and nis server by IP in /etc/yp.conf > works (or by cname and without resolvconf package) > IP from dhcp on /etc/network/interfaces does not work. It seems that > ypbind starts before networking 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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007293 Title: nis doesn't work anymore after upgrade to 12.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nis/+bug/1007293/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
