Comment 46 for bug 569757

Is that change to CRON backported to Lucid? I'm guessing not, but that would be nice.

As for gdm/lightdm/atd I think the crucial one there is atd. The login stuff probably takes long enough to start that NIS will be up by then (plus that's nowhere near an exhaustive list of *dm's and adding all of them is probably the wrong way to go).

I'm torn on whether to add the upstart wrappers or completely replace init.d with upstart in Lucid. I guess I'd lean towards the more minimal change to Lucid and having the new system in Precise, but I defer to your expertise. As long as one of them happens I think we're good.

Somehow I missed Clint's reply to my message, but since NIS is pretty darn hosed in Lucid without one of these workarounds, I can't see how anyone would mind it actually working out of the box. Even if the change breaks the duct tape things people have done for 2 years to work around this bug, at least they can back those things out once and count on it not breaking again. Also, the type of people who are really going to care are going to check the changelogs before they update :)

Thanks guys!