##Not a fix - but a fix.

After trawling through other SE network sites, forums, newsgroups, and the like, I wondered if it might be related to mount order for local and remote file systems (there are a pair of CIFS shares mounted on this server, which each have subdirectories bind mounted elsewhere).

I pushed the CIFS shares higher in /etc/fstab, and moved all bind mounts to the bottom.

Then I rebooted.

Now /run aka /var/run is working as expected.

I don't know that editing /etc/fstab mattered - but it's the only substantive change made that I know of.

Not a fix - but a fix.

After trawling through other SE network sites, forums, newsgroups, and the like, I wondered if it might be related to mount order for local and remote file systems (there are a pair of CIFS shares mounted on this server, which each have subdirectories bind mounted elsewhere).

I pushed the CIFS shares higher in /etc/fstab, and moved all bind mounts to the bottom.

Then I rebooted.

Now /run aka /var/run is working as expected.

I don't know that editing /etc/fstab mattered - but it's the only substantive change made that I know of.