Public bug reported: I'm running 14.04 LTS in an OpenVZ container.
Upgrades failed today, due to failure to configure udev: $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up udev (204-5ubuntu20.7) ... * udev requires hotplug support, not started ...fail! invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "restart" failed. dpkg: error processing package udev (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of systemd-services: systemd-services depends on udev (>= 175-0ubuntu23); however: Package udev is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package systemd-services (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpam-systemd:amd64: libpam-systemd:amd64 depends on systemd-services (= 204-5ubuntu20.7); however: Package systemd-services is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libpam-systemd:amd64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: udev systemd-services libpam-systemd:amd64 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: trusty ** Tags added: trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1377624 Title: udev requires hotplug support, thus upgrades fail To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1377624/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs