I can confirm that this issue exists in Karmic! I applied Malcolm's fix to /etc/init/statd.conf, and I was able to start statd with:
sudo start statd -- /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