Public bug reported:
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System ->
About Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Release: 16.04
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or
by checking in Software Center
systemd:
Installed: 229-4ubuntu21.16
Candidate: 229-4ubuntu21.16
Version table:
*** 229-4ubuntu21.16 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
229-4ubuntu4 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
3) What you expected to happen
4) What happened instead
Ubuntu server (running in OpenVZ VPS farm, thus the old kernel version)
has been up and running happily, until I performed apt-get upgrade and
rebooted the server. After reboot, I could not establish SSH connection
to server, port 22 connection was refused.
I opened a HTML console to my server instance and checked logs. From the
logs, it was shown, that SSH server could not start, as it did not have
the /var/run/sshd directory. After scrolling back the /var/log/syslog, I
noticed that there were lots of other /var/run subdirectories, which
were not created. Here is cut&paste from /var/log/syslog, related to
systemd-tmpfiles:
---8<---8<---
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]:
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/00rsyslog.conf:6] Duplicate line for path "/v
ar/log", ignoring.
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces...
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: fchownat() of /run/named failed:
Invalid argument
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: Failed to validate path
/var/run/fail2ban: Too many levels of symb
olic links
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: Failed to validate path
/var/run/screen: Too many levels of symbol
ic links
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: Failed to validate path
/var/run/sshd: Too many levels of symbolic
links
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: Failed to validate path
/var/run/sudo: Too many levels of symbolic
links
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: Failed to validate path
/var/run/sudo/ts: Too many levels of symbo
lic links
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: fchownat() of /run/utmp failed:
Invalid argument
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: fchownat() of /run/systemd/netif
failed: Invalid argument
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: fchownat() of
/run/systemd/netif/links failed: Invalid argument
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: fchownat() of
/run/systemd/netif/leases failed: Invalid argument
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: Failed to validate path
/var/run/zabbix: Too many levels of symbol
ic links
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: fchownat() of /run/log/journal
failed: Invalid argument
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: fchownat() of
/run/log/journal/6d9c7cc322ee4c48af7c0ec3b492b5cc fa
iled: Invalid argument
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd-tmpfiles[81]: fchownat() of
/run/log/journal/6d9c7cc322ee4c48af7c0ec3b492b5cc/sy
stem.journal failed: Invalid argument
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Main process
exited, code=exited, status=1/F
AILURE
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and
Directories.
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Unit entered
failed state.
Mar 6 12:32:54 vspk systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Failed with
result 'exit-code'.
---8<---8<---
My first idea was, that for some reason, systemd-tmpfiles was not able
to create the /var directory properly, so I renamed
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf to 0000var.conf, but it was no help. The
only difference was the first line on the above log, complaining about
duplicate line for path /var/log.
As I created this error using the "ubuntu-bug" command, I assume
necessary background information is automatically attached. I'll check
those and add more, if necessary.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: systemd 229-4ubuntu21.16
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-042stab128.2 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDmesg:
Date: Wed Mar 6 12:43:51 2019
Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1:
ProcEnviron:
TERM=vt220
PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcInterrupts: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/interrupts'
ProcKernelCmdLine: quiet
ProcModules:
SourcePackage: systemd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
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systemd-tmpfiles-setup.services fails to create /var/run directories
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