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1b1ed1a
(Get the code!)
This bug has caused me a lot of confusion; on some machines the YPBINDARGS=-no-dbus worked, on others it did not. Moving the positions of startup scripts provided inconsistent results. It does not seem to be a NIS bug at all, but is something to do with NetworkManager taking too long to start (confirmed by putting a call to nm-tool in /etc/rc.local). The only consistent solution for me was to follow a trick in a NetworkManager posting on bug #50430 to put a file containing the two lines:
#!/bin/sh
invoke-rc.d --quiet nis restart &
into /etc/network/
This has been a show-stopper of a bug for me until now, but I'm eager to upgrade to 8.04LTS, and with support for 7.04 expiring this month had been desperate to change. Unsurprisingly, users would not budge until they could login to their PCs after a reboot. I'm not a computer expert at all and therefore has taken me a while to sort out a workaround, and am surprised that this crippler of a bug seems to have an importance of "low". It has been sufficiently serious for some of our users to give up with Ubuntu and go to other distros.