HELP: "rpcbind: server localhost not responding"

[Rick Stevens]

Reg Clemens wrote:
> HELP - I have built a new kernel (to add some options) and I have 
> obviously missed something important... but I cant find it.
> 
> With THIS new kernel, during the boot, I get the message
> 
> 	rpcbind: server localhost not responding, timed out
> 	RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errorno 5)
> 
> With a previous kernel everything is OK, so its not a
> userland problem. 
> 
> Ive looked at everything imaginable with xconfig, and I dont
> see what Ive missed,- somebody...  point me at my stupidity.

Er, did you enable networking?
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