Comment # 12 on bug 1165351 from Franck Bui

(In reply to Thorsten Kukuk from comment #11)
> I'm not aware of anything in PID1 context, the usual reasons for such a
> crash are, that NIS is needed to contact the NIS server, so typical endless
> recursion.

Well the lib is not supposed to crash so there's definitively a bug here.

> Maybe systemd as PID1 does not allow access to everything needed?

I'm not aware of such restrictions.

> How does nsswitch.conf look like on the host?

I'll attach it.

> Does removing NIS from hosts, services, protocols and netgroup help?

Nope it doesn't most likely because "group" uses "compat".

BTW you can have a look at the system, see (private) comment #1.