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screen package

  1. Bug #172651
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 172651

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yvon vignaud (yvonalaplage) wrote :

Martin: 'It's quite obvious what the problem is though, /var/run/screen wasn't created at install time... right?'

Not so obvious to me. The error message shows that screen tries to create this directory, but simply can't. Looks very similar to bug #13143, which was supposed to be solved in Hoary.

Is your /var/run mounted as a tmpfs ?