Comment 16 for bug 1803391

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Dominic Raferd (dominic-timedicer) wrote :

I have this problem with Ubuntu 18.04 system set up with 'encrypted LVM' (standard Ubuntu recipe as per the alternate installer). Whenever there is systemd upgrade it hangs (whole machine crashes - other logins not possible) and has to be manually rebooted (which is not ideal as the machine is 1500 miles away). Note the installed version of systemd seems to be 237-3ubuntu10.42, obviously I am unable to update it.

I have another machine also Ubuntu 18.04 system set up with 'encrypted LVM' which has systemd 237-3ubuntu10.43 and does not have this problem.

Latest instance of this problem:
# apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 systemd
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,414 kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,168 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 libnss-systemd i386 237-3ubuntu10.43 [111 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 libpam-systemd i386 237-3ubuntu10.43 [114 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 systemd i386 237-3ubuntu10.43 [2,964 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 libsystemd0 i386 237-3ubuntu10.43 [225 kB]
Fetched 3,414 kB in 1s (3,309 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 151099 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libnss-systemd_237-3ubuntu10.43_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libnss-systemd:i386 (237-3ubuntu10.43) over (237-3ubuntu10.42) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libpam-systemd_237-3ubuntu10.43_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libpam-systemd:i386 (237-3ubuntu10.43) over (237-3ubuntu10.42) ...
Preparing to unpack .../systemd_237-3ubuntu10.43_i386.deb ...
Unpacking systemd (237-3ubuntu10.43) over (237-3ubuntu10.42) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libsystemd0_237-3ubuntu10.43_i386.deb ...
Unpacking libsystemd0:i386 (237-3ubuntu10.43) over (237-3ubuntu10.42) ...
Setting up libsystemd0:i386 (237-3ubuntu10.43) ...
Setting up systemd (237-3ubuntu10.43) ...

[system dies]