As Christian pointed out, now that systemd >= 257-2ubuntu1 is in plucky images, this has gone away. I can't repro anymore.
I did also try upgrades to plucky from oracular (after installing nginx), and cannot repro. It's possible this was fixed in systemd 257.1 or 257.2, but nothing immediately jumps out at me looking at the git history. I will leave this open, but I will de-prioritize it for now. ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Assignee: Nick Rosbrook (enr0n) => (unassigned) ** Tags removed: rls-pp-incoming -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2093081 Title: Installing many packages at once lets the nginx service fail to start Status in nginx package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, in our regular tests one does install a whole bunch of server programs to check various things like space, ports, ... - In that test I've started to see since 21st December a fail. When installing in plucky nginx fails to start. After digging through many red herrings (e.g. the collision with apache on port 80) I think this still is a real issue, yet I haven't found the lowest level of root cause. The following will reproduce the issue: $ lxc launch ubuntu-daily:p p-metric --ephemeral $ lxc exec p-metric --env=DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive -- apt-get update -y $ lxc exec p-metric --env=DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive -- apt-get -y install postgresql-all mysql-server libvirt-daemon-system containerd runc nfs-kernel-server samba slapd krb5-kdc sssd haproxy pacemaker memcached chrony nginx apache2 squid python3-django dovecot-imapd dovecot-pop3d postfix openvpn strongswan The issue we can see in the log then is 06:05:04 Setting up nginx (1.26.0-3ubuntu1) ... 06:05:04 [0;1;31mJob for nginx.service failed because the control process exited with error code.[0m 06:05:04 06:05:04 [0;1;31mSee "systemctl status nginx.service" and "journalctl -xeu nginx.service" for details.[0m 06:05:04 06:05:04 invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action "start" failed. 06:05:04 [0;1;31m×[0m nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server 06:05:04 Loaded: loaded (]8;;file://metric-server-simple-plucky-vm-c1-m1/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service\/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service]8;;\; [0;1;32menabled[0m; preset: [0;1;32menabled[0m) 06:05:04 Active: [0;1;31mfailed[0m (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-01-01 05:05:04 UTC; 11ms ago 06:05:04 Invocation: 7ccc5da4a95940d28cc0189485a6b4ec 06:05:04 Docs: ]8;;man:nginx(8)\man:nginx(8)]8;;\ 06:05:04 Process: 11158 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; [0;1;31m(code=exited, status=127)[0m 06:05:04 Mem peak: 260K 06:05:04 CPU: 830us 06:05:04 06:05:04 Jan 01 05:05:04 metric-server-simple-plucky-vm-c1-m1 systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server... 06:05:04 Jan 01 05:05:04 metric-server-simple-plucky-vm-c1-m1 systemd[1]: [0;1;39m[0;1;31m[0;1;39mnginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a[0m 06:05:04 Jan 01 05:05:04 metric-server-simple-plucky-vm-c1-m1 systemd[1]: [0;1;38:5:185m[0;1;39m[0;1;38:5:185mnginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.[0m 06:05:04 Jan 01 05:05:04 metric-server-simple-plucky-vm-c1-m1 systemd[1]: [0;1;31m[0;1;39m[0;1;31mFailed to start nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.[0m 06:05:04 dpkg: error processing package nginx (--configure): 06:05:04 installed nginx package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 So we see the config pre-check failing "/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on" but it isn't telling us how or why. A simple "install apache2 + nginx" works fine. I hope I'm rid of many red herrings that tried to lead me the wrong way and this really is us and will try to simplify the install command to less programs as it might help to understand why it happens. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nginx/+bug/2093081/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp