Comment 52 for bug 856810

I had the same problem here with one system after having upgraded it from 11.04 to 11.10. However, the instructions given in #40 solved the problem after a reboot. So it really seems that something when upgradeing a 11.04 to 11.10 seems to screw up the new /var/run -> /run move. Here also /etc/network/run was unresolved, thus on bootup the system couldn't bring up the network device (eth0) and also dbus couldn't start. Now after applying the instructions in #40 immediately fixed the problem.