retitle 400656 please add LSB dependency headers to the init script
severity 400656 withlist
thanks

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:00:13PM +0100, Antonio Larrosa wrote:
> It seems a block like this is missing in /etc/init.d/autofs :

Uhm.

This kind of dependency information is _not_ mandatory in Debian by any
standards. Please do not pretend it is.

> This makes sure that autofs is run after the nis service (by having nis in 
> Required-Start). If this block is missing (like now), it's possible that nis 
> and autofs are run at the same time, which leaves autofs in a bad state since 
> it cannot retrieve the automount map throught nis (this happened to me, and I 
> fixed it adding that block).

If you have such problems, please do not use parallelized bootup; it is not
defined in Debian policy as of today.

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