Problem with acpid on rasberrypi

Applies to Version: v3.12 armv7l (seems v3.11 as well)

acpid is part of runlevel default:

# ls -l /etc/runlevels/default/acpid 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            17 Jan  1  1970
/etc/runlevels/default/acpid -> /etc/init.d/acpid

But it does not start, only this gets logged:

==> /var/log/acpid.log <==
acpid: /dev/input/event0: No such file or directory

This causes problems with logrotation as well, every night /etc/logrotate.d/acpid is triggered and that invokes

/etc/init.d/acpid --quiet --ifstarted restart

This results in a mail being sent from cron with the following text

 * start-stop-daemon: no matching processes found

and nothing else in the message body.