Now this is strange! I had performed the very same installation simultaneously (!) on three servers. Two of them are absolutely identical and do have the directory /var/run/nut while the third one -- which is pretty much identical to the others -- does not. So this bug report seems moot, at least to two thirds of what it is worth.
This makes me doubt my mental state (which should be fine in principle) or the state of the Ubuntu installations. All three are pretty virgin and do not contain anything more than some very basic system installation. I would be grateful if somebody could point me to the cause of this difference. Here is the relevant output from sudo apt install nut on the machine which did not have /var/run/nut: The following NEW packages will be installed: libnspr4 libnss3 libnss3-nssdb libupsclient4 nut nut-client nut-server (...) Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu21.2) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Setting up libnspr4:amd64 (2:4.13.1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) ... Setting up libnss3-nssdb (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.3) ... Setting up libnss3:amd64 (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.3) ... Setting up libupsclient4:amd64 (2.7.2-4ubuntu1.2) ... Setting up nut-client (2.7.2-4ubuntu1.2) ... insserv: warning: script 'S02hpessad' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'hpessad' missing LSB tags and overrides Setting up nut-server (2.7.2-4ubuntu1.2) ... Adding user nut to group dialout insserv: warning: script 'S02hpessad' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'hpessad' missing LSB tags and overrides Setting up nut (2.7.2-4ubuntu1.2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu21.2) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... The only difference to the other two machines consists in the insserv warnings but nothing points to the non-creation of directory in question. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1763760 Title: Directory /var/run/nut is not created To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nut/+bug/1763760/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
