Hi,
I have a problem with a server with os Linux RedHat Enterprise AS 4.7:
when the server boots both ntpd and rpc.statd fail to start.

looking into /var/log/messages I found:

Apr 8 10:39:24 madrid rpc.statd[6019]: Version 1.0.6 Starting
Apr 8 10:39:57 madrid kernel: Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Apr 8 10:39:24 madrid rpc.statd[6019]: unable to register (statd, 1, udp).
Apr 8 10:39:57 madrid kernel: Detected 20.781 MHz APIC timer.
Apr 8 10:39:24 madrid nfslock: rpc.statd startup failed

and

Apr 8 10:39:32 madrid ntpdate[6529]: sendto(10.100.0.100): Success
Apr 8 10:39:36 madrid ntpd: failed
Apr 8 10:39:36 madrid ntpd[6569]: ntpd 4.2.0a@1.1190-r Thu Oct 5 04:11:33 EDT 2006 (1)
Apr 8 10:39:36 madrid ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded
Apr 8 10:39:36 madrid ntpd[6569]: precision = 1.000 usec
Apr 8 10:40:02 madrid kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
Apr 8 10:39:36 madrid ntpd[6569]: Listening on interface wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123
Apr 8 10:40:03 madrid kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub
Apr 8 10:40:03 madrid gcstartup: .
Apr 8 10:40:03 madrid kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Apr 8 10:40:03 madrid kernel: GSI 16 sharing vector 0xA9 and IRQ 16
Apr 8 10:39:36 madrid ntpd[6569]: Listening on interface wildcard, ::#123

For ntp, when the server completed the boot process, altough it seems ntpd started, no external server is used for syncronization.
The rpc.statd does not start at all and it doesn't appear if I issue a rpcinfo -p
The strange thing is that at this point if I manually start or restart /etc/init.d/ntpd and /etc/init.d/nfslock both services start with no errors.
Another strange thing is the timestamp for messages into /var/log/messages. How could it be possible to have a line with a certain timestamp and the following with a timestamp 30 seconds before??

The kernel version in use is 2.6.9-55.0.12.ELsmp #1 SMP x86_64

Any idea?
Thanks

Cristian

Have you made any changes to the ntpd or nfslock init scripts? If you change the start sequence it could cause the problem you're seeing.

Let's see output of:

Thanks for your reply. No changes on ntpd or nfslock scripts were made.
The output for the command is:

ntpd:# chkconfig: - 58 74
nfslock:# chkconfig: 345 14 86

That is identical to what I get on a second machine with an identical hw/sw configuration. On the second machine rpc.statd stars on boot...
The only difference seems to be this strange delay on the timestamp in /var/log/messages.

Any idea???
Thanks