git-daemon-run fails with "warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist"

On Gutsy:

# apt-get install git-daemon-run
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
git-daemon-run is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up runit (1.6.0-1) ...
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
Adding SV inittab entry...
cp: cannot stat `/etc/inittab': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing runit (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of git-daemon-run:
 git-daemon-run depends on runit; however:
  Package runit is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing git-daemon-run (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 runit
 git-daemon-run
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Then I did
  #touch /etc/inittab
  # dpkg-reconfigure runit
  # dpkg-reconfigure git-daemon-run
  warning: git-daemon: unable to open supervise/ok: file does not exist

#uname -a
Linux picasso 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

# dpkg -l git-daemon-run
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii git-daemon-run 1:1.5.2.5-2bui fast, scalable, distributed revision control

Confirmed. I can't use git-daemon-run on my Ubuntu JeOS 7.10.

Is there a fix for this, please? Thank you.

Still affects Gutsy.

Installing git-daemon-run requires 'touch fix', after that it still doesn't work. :-(

Workaround is available here:

Doing this solves the problem:

sudo runsvdir /var/service &

After that, you can run:

sudo sv start git-daemon

It seems that this (runsvdir) needs to be started upon server startup.

To get the server to run on startup:

sudo gedit /etc/event.d/runsvdir

and include the lines:
start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5
stop on shutdown
respawn
exec /usr/sbin/runsvdir-start

IMO, this should be handled by the package, too.

No fix yet? We're almost Hardy!!

This issue can be solved by system reboot.