Comment # 11 on bug 1165351 from Thorsten Kukuk

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #10)
> Thorsten, since you're libnss_nis maintainer, does that ring you a bell or
> can you think of any reason why initgroups(3) would loop forever and consume
> all memory when it's called in PID1 context ?

>From the backtrace it's in libtirpc, not libnss_nis.

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

How does nsswitch.conf look like on the host? Does removing NIS from hosts,
services, protocols and netgroup help?