[basic] nfsd failing to start

[Harry P <reader-kFrNdAxtuftBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>]

NOTE: This is a repost of a message posted on gentoo.user list

I've apparently forgotten whatever little I may have known about
setting up nfs from having used it long ago.

I found a brief help page on google that I used to get this far along
at:
http://linux-bsd-sharing.blogspot.com/2008/09/howto-setup-nfs-server-on-gentoo.html

Its very brief and has no debugging info.  

Also I see nothing about debugging in /etc/conf.d/nfs either.

After setting all nfs related kernel items and booting the kernel.
(The setting are inlined toward the end of this message)
Checking that mods appears to be installed and running.  Making sure
portmapper is running.

Then when I try to start nfsd service it fails, producing these
messages in sysklogd:

Jan [...] nfsd[29077]: nfssvc: Protocol not supported
Jan [...' : RPC: failed to contact local rpcbind server (errno 5).

Only one of the nfssvc lines appear but the RPC line appears several
times. 

I got the impression from google that nfssvc was related to nfs4 so
may not mean too much ... but then I'm really not sure what it might
mean.

I don't really know what info would be helpfull but have included
output from emerge, rpcinfo, lsmod and related kernel settings:

Installed nfs related pkgs
 [...]
Sat Jan 10 18:30:11 2009 >>> net-libs/libnfsidmap-0.21-r1
Sat Jan 10 18:30:30 2009 >>> net-nds/portmap-6.0
Sat Jan 10 18:31:20 2009 >>> dev-libs/libevent-1.4.9
Sat Jan 10 18:32:39 2009 >>> net-fs/nfs-utils-1.1.4

=====     *     =====     *     =====     *     =====

kernel:
# grep 'NFS\|RPC' .config

  # CONFIG_AF_RXRPC is not set
  CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
  CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
  CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL=y
  CONFIG_NFS_V4=y
  CONFIG_NFSD=m
  CONFIG_NFSD_V2_ACL=y
  CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
  CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL=y
  CONFIG_NFSD_V4=y
  CONFIG_NFS_ACL_SUPPORT=m
  CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y
  CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
  CONFIG_SUNRPC_GSS=m
  CONFIG_SUNRPC_REGISTER_V4=y
  CONFIG_RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5=m
  # CONFIG_RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3 is not set

=====     *     =====     *     =====     *     =====
 
# rpcinfo -p localhost
   program vers proto   port
    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
    100024    1   udp  34971  status
    100024    1   tcp  43460  status
    100005    1   udp  34365  mountd
    100005    1   tcp  44349  mountd
    100005    2   udp  34365  mountd
    100005    2   tcp  44349  mountd
    100005    3   udp  34365  mountd
    100005    3   tcp  44349  mountd

=====     *     =====     *     =====     *     =====
 
lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by
nfs                   206772  0 
nfsd                  185008  9 
lockd                  55160  2 nfs,nfsd
nfs_acl                 2688  2 nfs,nfsd
auth_rpcgss            28548  1 nfsd
sunrpc                144584  9 nfs,nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
exportfs                3456  1 nfsd
fuse                   42268  0 
usbhid                 13588  0 
usbmouse                3712  0 
usbkbd                  4992  0 
floppy                 45348  0 
pcspkr                  2176  0 
i2c_i801                7952  0 
r8169                  26500  0 
i2c_core               17680  1 i2c_i801
mii                     4224  1 r8169
snd_intel8x0           25500  0 
snd_ac97_codec         88352  1 snd_intel8x0
ehci_hcd               28684  0 
uhci_hcd               18444  0 
ac97_bus                1536  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                48008  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              15364  1 snd_pcm
snd                    34788  4 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
usbcore               104760  6 usbhid,usbmouse,usbkbd,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
snd_page_alloc          7304  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
intel_agp              22588  1 
agpgart                25520  1 intel_agp
button                  5904  0