ez-ipupdate: cannot create pid file

[wim delvaux]

Package: ez-ipupdate
Version: 3.0.11b8-10ubuntu1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable



when I run ez-ipupdate from init.d I get the message that it
cannot create the pid file in

could not create pid file /var/run/ez-ipupdate/default.pid (Bad file descriptor), exiting

The ez-ipupdate directory does not exist

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers edgy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'edgy-updates'), (500, 'edgy-security'), (500, 'edgy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-10-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages ez-ipupdate depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.92          Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.2ubuntu2  Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                      2.4-1ubuntu12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

ez-ipupdate recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  ez-ipupdate/server:
  ez-ipupdate/dns_wildcard: false
* ez-ipupdate/hostname: wimpies.dyndns.org
  ez-ipupdate/dns_mx:
* ez-ipupdate/interface: eth0
* ez-ipupdate/ppp: false
* ez-ipupdate/service_type: dyndns
* ez-ipupdate/username: u19809