Comment 3 for bug 1007293

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).