Comment # 35 on bug 1001554 from Ronan Chagas

(In reply to Atri Bhattacharya from comment #34)
> (In reply to Ronan Chagas from comment #33)
> > 
> > 1) Reboot in maintenance mode (INIT 1);
> > 2) Unmount /var/run (I guess it is bind mounted to /run);
> > 3) rm -rf /var/run
> > 4) cd /var
> > 5) ln -sf ./run ../run
> > 
> 
> Is something like this really necessary? Shouldn't
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gvfs/commit/?id=be0c464
> fix things (at least the issue with nautilus being unable to unmount)
> automatically?

Yes, this should fix this problem. However, AFAIK, /var/run must be a symlink
to /run nowadays. Hence, I think other bugs can occur if this is not fixed.