> /var/log/messages gives me this:

> Feb  3 13:44:23 mercury portmap[2221]: cannot bind udp: Address already in use

The first thing I would do is to see if there is something running on the portmap port:

# netstat -ap --inet

Check for sunrpc (which is the service name associated with the portmapper, as listed in /etc/services).

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