Comment 5 for bug 82159

After a reboot, /var/run/landscape directory is gone. This happens because /var/run is a tmpfs filesystem (I checked all the way back to dapper: it's always tmpfs).

The landscape-client initscript needs to create this directory every time. For example, this is the klogd initscript:

(...)
case "$1" in
  start)
    log_begin_msg "Starting kernel log daemon..."
    # create klog-writeable pid and fifo directory
    mkdir -p /var/run/klogd
    chown klog:klog /var/run/klogd
(...)