Cannot contact any KDC for realm

[steve]

On 24/10/14 13:29, Lars Hanke wrote:
> During boot of my system (Debian Wheezy) k5start is invoked to supply a
> ticket for accessing the AD DC by nslcd. However, during boot it fails:
>
> k5start: error getting credentials: Cannot contact any KDC for realm
> 'MY.AD.REALM'
>
> If I restart k5start using the very same init script once the system is
> up and running everything works nicely.
>
> On another system I neither have any issues using a similar boot stack.
>
> What exactly does this message want to tell me, i.e. where do I start
> troubleshooting?
>

I'd guess the working systems were not systemd. First thing would be to 
disable any of the 'preliminary' (read: probably broken) wheezy systemd 
stuff.
HTH,
Steve