Yes, I think that is a bug in the package, but it does not explain the failure during upgrade, as the failing code IIUC is only called after the call to adduser, which should create it at that time.
I think /var/run nowadays lives in /run which is cleaned on reboot (is /var/run a symlink to /run on your system?) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to speech-dispatcher in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241211 Title: speech-dispatcher could not be installed when upgrading from Kubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 Status in “speech-dispatcher” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Got an error message while upgrading fron 13.04 to 13.10 (German) "Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurü --- ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-29 (384 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120820.1) MarkForUpload: True Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Tags: saucy dist-upgrade Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (0 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom debian-tor dialout dip fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speech-dispatcher/+bug/1241211/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
