[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#399523: rpc.statd[2058]: unable to register (statd, 1, udp).

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Steinar H. Gunderson]
> Because initscripts is the package checking the fstab for NFS file
> systems, attempting to start nfs-common appropriately if
> needed. Also, its behaviour with regard to NFS at boot-time was
> recently changed multiple times...

I have no idea why you believe the initscripts package is responsible
for this problem.  "changed multiple times" do not seem like a good
explanation to me.  I find nothing in the bug report indicating why
this should be a bug in initscripts.  Anyway...

Is this machine using SELinux or other access control systems?

Does it change anything to set ASYNCMOUNTNFS=no in /etc/default/rcS?

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen