Same problem here, autofs doesn't work because statd is not started.
Some more debugging revealed that:
if some NFS3 mount is used in /etc/fstab, anything work, statd ist started automatic, but if there is no NFS3 mount inside fstab statd is not started even with autof. So some of the upstart rules for statd/autofs will not work correctly.
Workaround for me is now to add a static NFS3 mount inside /etc/fstab
Same problem here, autofs doesn't work because statd is not started.
Some more debugging revealed that:
if some NFS3 mount is used in /etc/fstab, anything work, statd ist started automatic, but if there is no NFS3 mount inside fstab statd is not started even with autof. So some of the upstart rules for statd/autofs will not work correctly.
Workaround for me is now to add a static NFS3 mount inside /etc/fstab