Hi Alan, How did you install dapper? The /var/run and /var/lock directories are created "underneath" by the installer, and also by the initscripts postinst in a breezy to dapper upgrade.
We can't create them in mountvirtfs, because at that point the root filesystem is not writable (precisely why we have these tmpfs) -- missing /var/run in root partition fails many services https://launchpad.net/bugs/51452 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
