regression artful sru upgrade

Opened from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1618188/comments/40

Hello Dimitri, or anyone else affected,

Accepted systemd into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/234-2ubuntu12.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-artful to verification-done-artful. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-artful. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Tested package on a Ubuntu 17.10 - Windows Subsystem for Linux installation.

Was getting the error with systemd (234-2ubuntu12.3):

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sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  bash
The following packages will be upgraded:
  systemd-sysv
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/11.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up systemd (234-2ubuntu12.3) ...
addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf:15] Failed to replace specifiers: /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf:16] Failed to replace specifiers: /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf:17] Failed to replace specifiers: /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-*
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf:18] Failed to replace specifiers: /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp
dpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 systemd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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No longer getting the error after installing systemd (234-2ubuntu12.4) including dependencies:

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sudo apt-get install systemd/artful-proposed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '234-2ubuntu12.4' (Ubuntu:17.10/artful-proposed [amd64]) for 'systemd'
Selected version '234-2ubuntu12.4' (Ubuntu:17.10/artful-proposed [amd64]) for 'libsystemd0' because of 'systemd'
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libsystemd0
Suggested packages:
  systemd-container policykit-1
Recommended packages:
  libpam-systemd
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libpam-systemd policykit-1 ubuntu-standard
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libsystemd0 systemd
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 2,990 kB of archives.
After this operation, 856 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-proposed/main amd64 systemd amd64 234-2ubuntu12.4 [2,782 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-proposed/main amd64 libsystemd0 amd64 234-2ubuntu12.4 [209 kB]
Fetched 2,990 kB in 2s (1,407 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 75910 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ubuntu-standard (1.404.1) ...
Removing policykit-1 (0.105-18) ...
Removing libpam-systemd:amd64 (234-2ubuntu12.3) ...
(Reading database ... 75864 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../systemd_234-2ubuntu12.4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking systemd (234-2ubuntu12.4) over (234-2ubuntu12.3) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libsystemd0_234-2ubuntu12.4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libsystemd0:amd64 (234-2ubuntu12.4) over (234-2ubuntu12.3) ...
Setting up libsystemd0:amd64 (234-2ubuntu12.4) ......

This SRU is blocked on 8 autopkgtest failures. Please see the pending-sru page for more information and please comment whether those are real regressions or not.

This bug was fixed in the package systemd - 234-2ubuntu12.4

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systemd (234-2ubuntu12.4) artful; urgency=medium

  * Revert "systemd.postinst: enable persistent journal."
    This reverts commit 099860f8d8d253696ceef731ab25a70a806a4f5b. (LP: #1758865)

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:34:22 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for systemd has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.