In a newly installed (fai) environment ece-deploy will fails on the error below unless a restart is first performed with the 'ece' script where the permissions are corrected:
[ece-deploy-0] Started @ Mon Jan 14 12:39:22 UTC 2013
[ece-deploy-0] This deployment has ID ip-10-58-107-107-1358167162 and is
[ece-deploy-0] logging to /var/log/escenic/ece-deploy.log
[ece-deploy-0] Remembering the deployment states for all instances ...
[ece#engine-engine1] /var/run/escenic/engine1.pid: /var/run/escenic isn't
[ece#engine-engine1] writable for user escenic