I have been having this same issue I have just upgrade from 8.10 to
10.04 over a three week period . When I first upgrade all our mac 10.6
and 10.5 clients stopped auto mounting nfs homes and I used another bug
(#540637) report which fixed the issue up untill 3 days ago when I
started to have
just to add to other post statd has been runnig the whole time
ps aux | grep statd
root 14801 0.0 0.0 16672 1128 pts/0S+ 14:13 0:00 rpc.statd -Fd
root 16282 0.0 0.0 4096 592 ?S14:28 0:00 /bin/sh -c
rpc.statd -Fd
root 16283 0.0 0.0 16672 1152 ?