If you want to make it run, a temporary solution is to not only create the directory, but also change the owner of that directory to ez-ipupd or whatsoever user you have specified in the ez-ipupdate configuration file for your host.
If you want a permanent solution (as I did) you would need to edit the file : /etc/init.d/ez-ipupdate and add these lines after the line that says "set -e" (around line 10): # Checks if directory already exists if [[ ! -e "/var/run/$NAME" ]] then mkdir "/var/run/$NAME/" chown -R ez-ipupd "/var/run/$NAME/" fi By the way, I'm using Dapper 6.06 x86, Desktop -- Daemon doesn't start https://launchpad.net/bugs/32727 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs