autofs + yp (nisplus)

[RayDude]

I have installed Gentoo on my work machine and at some point in the last few months a problem has cropped up with autofs.

Basically for the first few minutes after the machine boots, I can't login because my home directory (NISPLUS autofs /home) is not mounted. ypwhich works, I can get the password file, so yp seems to be okay. autofs starts up fine during boot up and reports the /home directory as a mount point. But if I log in to KDE, I get KDCOPD errors which occur because I have no home directory.

If I log in to a pty, I get the error message, "No home directory."

However, if I keep trying to login to a PTY, at some point the files will become available and then I'll be able to log into KDE without problems.

I haven't been able to figure out what the delay comes from and I was hoping someone here would have some ideas.

Thanks in advance.

Brian
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[Spooky Ghost]

If you ypcat the automount maps and the master file are the results sensible? (Or does your setup use local auto.* files?)

[duderonomy]

Did the OP find resolution with this issue?
I'm researching a similar problem...

Cheers,
D