Confirmed, there's a race condition here. The race-free fix would be: start portmap || true status portmap | grep -q start/running
** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Steve Langasek (vorlon) -- /etc/init/statd.conf: race with portmap startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484209 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs