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Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

nis_cachemgr: Error in reading NIS cold start file : '/var/nis/NIS_COLD_START'

Cause

After installing patches 104331-04 and 103612-33, nis_cachemgr(1M) failed to come up. The symptoms are as follows during the reboot: 


Sep 11 16:34:00 nis_cachemgr: Error in reading NIS cold start file : 
          '/var/nis/NIS_COLD_START'
and nis_cachemgr(1M) isn't there after logging in. Trussing nis_cachemgr(1M) showed that it is reading /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START and immediately reporting an error. Neither reinitializing the client nor copying NIS_COLD_START helps.

Action

This is a timing problem. Put a sleep(1) before the NIS+ initialization in /etc/init.d/rpc, after rpc.bind has been started. rpc.bind is slow about initializing and needs a few extra seconds to get going before nis_cachemgr(1M) starts bugging it.