rpc.statd & suse 8.2

Whenever I try to log into an 8.2 machine in gnome it complains about a lock error with nfs. To fix it I just start rpc.statd and then log in. But is there a way to get around this? I tried adding rpc.statd to /etc/rc.d/boot.local, but that didn't help, I dunno why, because that should just start the deamon when the mahcine loads.