Comment 7 for bug 282146

I have now reinstalled it and will try to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure -aup low again and try to obtain a backtrace. I will start with valgrind since this is the easiest. I mind you that I do not know if this is a really good option, since I do not know that much about linux architecture, scripts, python and perl and such. If you prefer gdb or stacktrace or something, please let me know. Since I did not get a crash report I cannot do a backtrace on CoreDump.

The directory does seem to exist:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ cd /var/run
thomas@thomas-laptop:/var/run$ ls -la
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 860 2008-10-12 16:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2008-07-02 11:34 ..
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 acpid.socket
drwxr-xr-x 2 aptproxy root 60 2008-10-12 15:08 apt-proxy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 atd.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 avahi avahi 100 2008-10-12 15:10 avahi-daemon
drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 60 2008-10-12 15:08 clamav
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2008-10-12 16:30 console
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2008-10-12 16:30 ConsoleKit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 console-kit-daemon.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 crond.pid
---------- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 crond.reboot
drwxr-xr-x 3 root lp 120 2008-10-12 15:08 cups
drwxr-xr-x 2 messagebus messagebus 80 2008-10-12 15:08 dbus
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 debtorrent-client.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2008-10-12 15:08 dhcdbd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 gdm.pid
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 gdm_socket
drwxr-xr-x 2 gsmsms gsmsms 60 2008-10-12 15:08 gsm-utils
drwxr-xr-x 2 haldaemon haldaemon 80 2008-10-12 16:30 hald
drwxr-xr-x 2 havp havp 60 2008-10-12 16:18 havp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1706 2008-10-12 15:08 hotkey-setup
drwxr-xr-x 2 klog klog 100 2008-10-12 15:08 klogd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424 2008-10-12 15:08 motd
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2008-10-12 15:10 network
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2008-10-12 15:08 NetworkManager.pid
drwxrwx--- 2 root polkituser 40 2008-10-12 15:08 PolicyKit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:10 ppp0.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2008-10-12 15:08 pppconfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 2008-10-12 15:10 pppd2.tdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 .ramfs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 140 2008-10-12 15:08 samba
drwxrwxr-x 2 root utmp 40 2008-10-12 15:08 screen
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 sdp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 15:08 sendsigs.omit
drwxr-xr-x 2 smsd dialout 40 2008-10-12 15:08 smstools
drwx------ 3 root thomas 60 2008-10-12 15:59 sudo
srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-12 16:23 synaptic.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2008-10-12 15:08 syslogd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2008-10-12 15:08 system-tools-backends.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 2008-10-12 15:08 usbmount
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 3840 2008-10-12 15:12 utmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2008-10-12 15:08 VirtualBox
thomas@thomas-laptop:/var/run$