Ah, the problem is that policykit-1's postinst kills the daemon, right after systemd starts it.
** Package changed: systemd (Ubuntu Vivid) => policykit-1 (Ubuntu Vivid) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1447654 Title: installing policykit-1 hangs under systemd Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in policykit-1 source package in Vivid: In Progress Bug description: I've installed 15.04 using the current amd64 netboot.tar.gz (MD5 = 6566065bf73a9c81feeddf5520dda122). It installs fine, but I'm getting errors installing packages (such as lubuntu-core). Last few lines from apt-get: Processing triggers for systemd (219-7ubuntu3) ... Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24) Failed to execute operation: Connection timed out dpkg: error processing package systemd (--unpack): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.44.0-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for udev (219-7ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.8.12-1ubuntu5) ... Errors were encountered while processing: systemd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I've done a second install using the server iso and lubuntu-core installs fine on that. The only thing different was my install media. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/+bug/1447654/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
