Comment 14 for bug 858122

For me, this problem was caused by VMWare Workstation 8 leaving a mount point of some sort in /var/run. After umounting and symlinking manually (per the comments above) I was good to go. I wouldn't say VMware is the root cause. The mount point is in the fstab. They aren't doing anything wrong by mounting in /var/run. The script just needs to run after it has unmounted.