[Bug 994212] [NEW] ubuntu 12.04 automounts (autofs) not working with ldap maps on boot

[heckheck]

Public bug reported:

This bug is very similar in nature to Bug #958704.  In a nutshell,
autofs is unable to initialize correctly on boot due to upstart not
starting things in proper sequence.  In my case, network drives are
described in LDAP maps and autofs is most likely starting before the
system is able to use the network to retrieve the proper maps from LDAP.
That results in drives not being mountable unless I restart autofs.  For
example

root at bar:/localhome/jheck# cd /dat/foo
bash: cd: /dat/foo: No such file or directory
root at bar:/localhome/jheck# restart autofs
autofs start/running, process 2188
root at bar:/localhome/jheck# cd /dat/foo
root at bar:/dat/foo# 

So you see that for me to get my network drives working, I need to
restart autofs after boot.  This smacks of improper initialization
sequencing.

The following packages are installed on my system and in use to use autofs with LDAP maps
autofs-ldap, ldap-utils, ldap-auth-client, nscd

I think this problem should be easily solvable by having autofs wait for
the proper network utilities to be started and running before it
attempts to initialize.  This has been a perennial problem for NIS and
LDAP reliant networks for MANY versions of Ubuntu.  I had similar
problems back in 8.04 when our system used NIS and also in 10.04.
Please straightnen this out, since Ubuntu needs to be useful in network
environements that use these types of auto-configuring network
topologies.


nobody at bar:/data/network$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release:	12.04
nobody at bar:/data/network$ apt-cache policy autofs5
autofs5:
  Installed: 5.0.6-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 5.0.6-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 5.0.6-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: autofs5 5.0.6-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May  3 16:20:30 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: autofs5
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: autofs5 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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