[arch-general] utmp MIA

I ran pacman -Syu yesterday, and now on boot the file /run/utmp is not created. Anyone else with this problem? (Yes, /var/run is a symlink to /run) (I also changed from grub2 to syslinux, but I suppose this has nothing to do with the problem; it boots fine. This is the only difference in installed software/configuration.) TIA Jorge Almeida