PCMCIA services start too late on laptops. This breaks a number of networking services, including ypbind (which is what my specific complaint is about) and others. I've seen the other bug reports which you guys marked as not a bug or won't fix, but that's just preposterous. Surely with the number of complaints you've received about this, you must realize that this is a real bug that requires real attention. In the case where you are pointing ypbind at a specific server (i.e. because that's all you have and it's not on the same subnet), ypbind fails to bind. Period. After the system is finished booting, you can restart ypbind manually, and things will begin to work properly, but this is clearly not an acceptable solution, as it requires manual intervention from a user, and because it lengthens the boot process exponentially as yp lookups fail. From a purely philisophical standpoint, does it make sense to ANYONE that you start a bunch of network services while you KNOW that the network cards aren't all configured? It doesn't make any sense to me.
Assigning to kernel (that's where the pcmcia-cs package is.)
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