Do you think you could you link to that bug? I just upgraded to 11.10, I don't have a /run directory, and I did have some boot problems that I worked around. (A google search didn't turn anything up.)

Edit: My mistake, after rebooting, this folder popped right up :)

hmm I upgraded and yes do have it..

did you upgrade from 11.04 or lower ?

Then why is the link to the description of the Debian feature rather than to Ubuntu's documentation of it?