alex, this is somewhat surprising to hear, as up until 12.04, NIS was actually quite broken on bootup for most users due to many race conditions in the way it started up. In 12.04, the startup was moved to being managed by upstart jobs, and this fixed the problem for many users (in fact we have updates pending for 10.04 to fix this for those users).
Could you perhaps create a tarball of /etc/init from a machine that is affected, and attach it to this bug report? Try: tar -cz -f init.tar.gz -C /etc init Thanks! Also if you can run this command on an affected machine, it will help us verify the versions of software you have: apport-collect 1007293 (Marking as High Importance, Incomplete). ** Changed in: nis (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: nis (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- 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