Comment 11 for bug 484209

Same problem with Lucid, I actually solved it by adding
"exec rpc.statd -L $STATDOPTS"
before
"status portmap | grep -q start/ || start portmap"

my statd.conf file actually is:

[...]
        [ "x$NEED_STATD" != xno ] || { stop; exit 0; }

        start portmap || true
        exec rpc.statd -L $STATDOPTS
        status portmap | grep -q start/ || start portmap
        exec sm-notify
end script
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