The portmap service starts after inetd, hence, all rpc programs started by inetd cannot start.
This happens when both are added to the default runlevel.
Wouldn't adding a "use inetd" or "use xinetd" to the portmap init file's depend() section solve this problem?
I am in the middle of testing, but initially it does not for some reason. During startup it still shows inetd starting before portmap. Even renaming the portmap symlink to 001.portmap doesn't appear to help.
I apologize, there was a type in my depend(). That does appear to fix the issue.
fixed in cvs sync & reemerge