slow boot; NFS statd; rpc.statd

[Mike Wright]

Hi List Users,

Running fc4.

When the system boots, during the INIT phase, it pauses for about 1 
minute at "Starting NFS statd".  I have other fc4 boxes where this 
doesn't happen.  I turn off everything I don't want/need using chkconfig 
and so may have inadvertantly turned off something necessary.  I'm 
pretty sure it's not dns related (those delays are 26 seconds).

I've chased it into init.d/nfslock.  Further investigation shows that 
the delay is actually happening when that script invokes "daemon 
rpc.statd".  rpc.statd is a binary so I can't follow it further. 
Checking the man page for statd says sometimes this happens when there 
is no hostname so I added the hostname into /etc/hostname with no 
apparent effect.

Has anyone experienced this and can share some insight?

Thanks for any help!

Mike Wright :m)