This is caused by amd's top-level mounts which are mounted by default with NLM locks enabled (lock mount option). Locks are not required for the top-level mounts. The attached patch passes "nolock" to top-level mount requests.
The attached patch fixes the problem. Phil.
diff -ruN am-utils-6.1.5.orig/amd/amfs_toplvl.c am-utils-6.1.5/amd/amfs_toplvl.c --- am-utils-6.1.5.orig/amd/amfs_toplvl.c 2006-03-28 08:16:43.000000000 -0800 +++ am-utils-6.1.5/amd/amfs_toplvl.c 2008-06-10 11:40:32.000000000 -0700 @@ -226,6 +226,10 @@ MNTTAB_OPT_RETRANS, gopt.amfs_auto_retrans[AMU_TYPE_TOPLVL]); xstrlcat(opts, toplvl_opts, sizeof(opts)); } +#ifdef MNTTAB_OPT_NOLOCK + xstrlcat(opts, ",", sizeof(opts)); + xstrlcat(opts, MNTTAB_OPT_NOLOCK, sizeof(opts)); +#endif /* MNTTAB_OPT_NOLOCK */ #ifdef MNTTAB_OPT_NOAC if (gopt.auto_attrcache == 0) {