Its a kernel bug.
> The problem is that by default RH5.x (and probably older RH's too) start
> up the portmapper AFTER it tries to mount NFS filesystems. This is of
> course not a good idea (well, obvious NOW at least, it was probably best
> described as dubious before), but it happened to work with Linux 2.0...
It was logical before because portmap could then live in /usr (it cant if
you have nfs /usr now). The bug is a kernel bug, its a mistake in the
kernel rpc handling. It just shows up when portmap isnt there
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