07-30-07 06:13 PM
On Jul 29, 10:25 pm, mapkyca <mar...@dushka.co.uk> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have two machines, a client and a server. Both are debian. The
> client mounts /home via NFS and loads users via NIS from the server.
>
> Ever since upgrading my client to Debian 4 it takes several trys to
> boot the client. 4/5 times the boot will halt at the YP bind stage and
> will eventually time out, forcing me to restart.
I would guess that you have some problems with resolving names on
machines.
You might want to set your server host name in /etc/hosts directly.
And have that
when you mount your NFS volumes.
(You might want to check nscd if you use NIS to look up names, as it
caches them. But not until your NIS works)
> After looking around, it seems that this problem is caused by the new
> way that the networking subsystem is initialised, however nobody has
> come up with a fix that works...
>
> I have tried the suggested fix - add allow hotplug to interfaces, but
> this has no effect.
You could try autofs. It works for me. It only mounts file systems
when needed.
And the NFS home file system isn't needed until you log in.
> How hard would it be, and what would I have to do in order to use the
> old method of network initialisation which never had any problems?
No clue on that one.
> Cheers,
>
> M
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