rpc.lockd brokenness (2)

[Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos]

> > 1- Only one client machine of all I have, the only one which is remote
> > booted, hangs on startup with rpc.lockd/rpc.statd enabled.
>
> Just to verify:  lockd is enabled on BOTH client AND server?
>
> Kris

Oh yes. If any of the daemons is not enabled on both machines there's no
locking, there's no system hang and all that occurs is:
    can't open or create /var/run/cron.pid: Operation not supported.

which is ok, of course, although it's a pitty that it can't work without
locking.

Miguel