Comment 10 for bug 1371564

For a system with a separate /var partition, the workaround from year 2010 appears to work:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/525154/comments/8

For the Ubuntu 14.04 this workaround translates to:

--- /etc/init/statd.conf.ORIG 2013-09-11 16:46:50.000000000 -0500
+++ etc/init/statd.conf 2015-06-02 16:24:42.029659358 -0500
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # TYPE=nfs is handled in the "statd-mounting" job.
 #
 start on (started portmap ON_BOOT=
- or (virtual-filesystems and started portmap ON_BOOT=y))
+ or (virtual-filesystems and mounted MOUNTPOINT=/var and started portmap ON_BOOT=y))
 stop on stopping portmap

 expect fork