could not start statd (missing dependency in nfs-utils ebuild?) (i don't know what is statd) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -kuv nfs-utils 2./etc/init.d/nfs start 3. Actual Results: /etc/init.d/nfs start * Starting NFS statd... * Error starting NFS statd [ !! ] * Starting NFS daemon...[ ok ] * Starting NFS mountd...[ ok ] Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.20-gentoo-r8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -funroll-loops -pipe -msse -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -funroll-loops -pipe -msse -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://212.219.247.18/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga sdl gpm tcpd pam python esd imlib oggvorbis kde motif opengl icc dga dvb lirc ggi java bindist cdr directfb xkb nas nojoystick aalib -alsa nvidia nv X gtk2 cjk qt guile tcltk ruby ruby18 maildir curl flash javascript fbcon xml acl odbc ssl samba gtk perl threads sse mmx tiff"
see syslog did you start portmap ? which version of nfs-utils ?
sorry, but it is long time ago. i have few times upgraded system and now after testing "/etc/init.d/nfs start" is all ok. my system now: Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.1-mm1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-mm1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe -msse -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe -msse -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://212.219.247.18/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bindist cdr cjk crypt cups curl dga directfb dvb encode esd fbcon flash foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile icc imlib java javascript jpeg kde libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg nas ncurses nls nv nvidia odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby ruby18 samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype x86 xkb xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"