On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:04, Chris Sparks wrote: > Chris Sparks wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What does this mean?: > > svc: short len 4, dropping request > > svc: short len 4, dropping request > > svc: short len 4, dropping request > > svc: short len 4, dropping request > > > > > > Chris Using Google for this shows a few hits. It seems related to RPC services. If you look about 1/2 down the following page you'll see the source code for the error you're getting. http://bernia.disca.upv.es/lxr/http/source/net/sunrpc/svc.c#L24 Do you have services running associated with portmapper that are giving you problems? Regards, Mike Klinke