Why does booting fail with the error "find: '/var/run': No such file or directory" in RHEL6?
Issue
- The booting process halts with errors pointing to the directory
/var/runas shown below:
Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ]
Enabling local filesystem quotas: [ OK ]
find: '/var/run': No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 591: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory
chgrp: cannot access '/var/run/utmp': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access '/var/run/utmp': No such file or directory
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps: [ OK ]
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
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