[Bug 1805316] [NEW] systemd 229-4ubuntu21.9 faulty - breaks the system!

[Tom-Oliver Heidel]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS

systemd 229-4ubuntu21.9

syslog file http://locoserver.net:8080/inline/14ItB1/syslog

I had to restart one of my server. This one is ovz and the only ubuntu
16 left. All my other servers are ubuntu 18 already.

So what happened?
I restarted my server and I could ping it fine. However when I tried to connect with ssh it immediately refused my connection. So I run nmap and indeed all other services were running BUT ssh.

I could connect over a service console provided by the hoster. I could
not user 'service ssh rstart' because it would fail since this
'/var/run/sshd' was missing although I checked every script. The scripts
were fine. So I looked through the syslog and found something
interesting on google. There are a lot of people actually having the
same problem at least when using ovz and ubuntu 16.

Right now I try to downgrade my systemd to a previous version until a
fix will be published.

I cannot always log in over the service console and create the file
'/var/run/sshd' by hand to manually start ssh.

There is a thread in the german ubuntu forum
https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/systemd-tmpfiles-fchownat-of-run-failed-invali/

I used this to downgrade
curl -LO 'http://launchpadlibrarian.net/395488411/systemd_229-4ubuntu21.6_amd64.deb'
curl -LO 'http://launchpadlibrarian.net/395488403/libsystemd0_229-4ubuntu21.6_amd64.deb'
apt install ./systemd_229-4ubuntu21.6_amd64.deb ./libsystemd0_229-4ubuntu21.6_amd64.deb

** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: ssh

** Attachment added: "syslog"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805316/+attachment/5216643/+files/syslog

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Title:
  systemd 229-4ubuntu21.9 faulty - breaks the system!

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS

  systemd 229-4ubuntu21.9

  syslog file http://locoserver.net:8080/inline/14ItB1/syslog

  I had to restart one of my server. This one is ovz and the only ubuntu
  16 left. All my other servers are ubuntu 18 already.

  So what happened?
  I restarted my server and I could ping it fine. However when I tried to connect with ssh it immediately refused my connection. So I run nmap and indeed all other services were running BUT ssh.

  I could connect over a service console provided by the hoster. I could
  not user 'service ssh rstart' because it would fail since this
  '/var/run/sshd' was missing although I checked every script. The
  scripts were fine. So I looked through the syslog and found something
  interesting on google. There are a lot of people actually having the
  same problem at least when using ovz and ubuntu 16.

  Right now I try to downgrade my systemd to a previous version until a
  fix will be published.

  I cannot always log in over the service console and create the file
  '/var/run/sshd' by hand to manually start ssh.

  There is a thread in the german ubuntu forum
  https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/systemd-tmpfiles-fchownat-of-run-failed-invali/

  I used this to downgrade
  curl -LO 'http://launchpadlibrarian.net/395488411/systemd_229-4ubuntu21.6_amd64.deb'
  curl -LO 'http://launchpadlibrarian.net/395488403/libsystemd0_229-4ubuntu21.6_amd64.deb'
  apt install ./systemd_229-4ubuntu21.6_amd64.deb ./libsystemd0_229-4ubuntu21.6_amd64.deb

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