Comment 7 for bug 1007293

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 2>&1
in /etc/init/ypbind.conf after script line

and the output in nis-debug.log was
  No NIS server and no -broadcast option specified.
  Add a NIS server to the /etc/yp.conf configuration file,
  or start ypbind with the -broadcast option.

my /etc/yp.conf is
  ypserver nisserver
(nisserver is resolved by dns ok, tried to use the ip but the problems seems elsewhere)

I dont use network-manager (purged) and my /etc/network/interfaces file is the following
  allow-hotplug lo eth0
  auto lo eth0
  iface lo inet loopback
  iface eth0 inet dhcp

The problem seems to be that when ypbind is initially started networking is not up yet

For now I execute manually after each boot the following command (I will probably add it at /etc/rc.local although this is ugly)
  service ypbind restart

Some lines from /var/log/syslog showing that ypbind is started before networking and although it is respawning it does not succeed

Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient ypbind: Host name lookup failure
..
Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.10.53 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient dhclient: DHCPOFFER of 192.168.10.53 from 192.168.10.165
Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient dhclient: DHCPACK of 192.168.10.53 from 192.168.10.165
Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient rpcbind: Cannot open '/run/rpcbind/rpcbind.xdr' file for reading, errno 2 (No such file or directory)
Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient rpcbind: Cannot open '/run/rpcbind/portmap.xdr' file for reading, errno 2 (No such file or directory)
Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient kernel: [ 8.984711] init: portmap-wait (statd) main process (531) killed by TERM signal
..
Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient kernel: [ 9.448250] init: ypbind main process (583) terminated with status 1
Jun 4 16:47:48 ubuntutestclient kernel: [ 9.448372] init: ypbind main process ended, respawning
..
Jun 4 16:47:54 ubuntutestclient kernel: [ 15.403354] init: wait-for-state (atdypbind) main process (1071) killed by TERM signal
Jun 4 16:47:54 ubuntutestclient kernel: [ 15.423670] init: wait-for-state (gdmypbind) main process (1076) killed by TERM signal
Jun 4 16:47:54 ubuntutestclient kernel: [ 15.429334] init: wait-for-state (lightdmypbind) main process (1084) killed by TERM signal

I have 30 client machines with about 300 users in a school and this is a serious issue that prevents me from upgrading yet.

Please look into it and I will try to help as much as I can