since no more portmap, no more nfs client

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 22:46 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Quite several versions back, portmap was apparently made obsolete. Ever since
> then, I've never been able to mount other systems' exports (except when not
> running Fedora*). rpcbind, nfs & nfslock are running. I don't use
> NetworkManager, iptables or ip6tables. When I try to mount nfs exports, I get:
> 
> mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
> mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.
> 
> Service statd is not listed chkconfig output or in service configuration. How
> does one get statd running (in F13/Rawhide, using the same options as worked
> before and still work in Mandriva, *buntu, openSUSE, etc)?

Works fine here.

A simple:

[root at adam adamw]# grep statd /etc/init.d/*

returns a bunch of results from /etc/init.d/nfslock , so that's
obviously the service you want to start.
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