[debian-edu-commits] autofs vs. NetworkManager [Was: [Debian Wiki] Update of "DebianEdu/Status/Jessie" by PetterReinholdtsen]

[Wolfgang Schweer]

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 09:01:47PM -0000, Debian Wiki wrote:
> + * Workstations (and probably other profiles) have a race condition 
> where autofs starts before the eth0 interface is up.  the syslog 
> confirm that dhclient completes after autofs/automount complain in the 
> log that it is unable to reach the LDAP server.  This causes user home 
> directories to be unavailable after boot.  Is this systemd related?

This seems to have been an issue since a long time for other people:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autofs5/+bug/733914

Maybe a NetworkManager hook to restart autofs after the interface is up 
would serve as a workaround? (I haven't found this problem (VM setup), 
so I can't test it.)

Wolfgang

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