I did some tests. This issue is clearly related to btrfs, because I can not reproduce this with ext4. If you have a different filesystem, you have a different issue, maybe the one in https://launchpad.net/bugs/1804847. How to reproduce this: 1) clean install from 'ubuntu-18.04.1-live-server-amd64.iso', all settings default but change root filesystem to btrfs. 2) system starts fine after reboot 3) issue 'apt install systemd' and get the 'Bad file descriptor' error allready during installation (attached log) 4) reboot with failing systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
I will also attach a log of the errors during apt install. ** Summary changed: - systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service fails + systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service fails on btrfs -- 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/1804603 Title: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service fails on btrfs Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After update to systemd 237-3ubuntu10.9 systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service fails with: Nov 21 13:44:12 node-blc49 systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories... Nov 21 13:44:12 node-blc49 systemd-tmpfiles[1226]: Failed to create directory or subvolume "/var": Bad file descriptor Nov 21 13:44:12 node-blc49 systemd-tmpfiles[1226]: Failed to create directory or subvolume "/home": Bad file descriptor Nov 21 13:44:12 node-blc49 systemd-tmpfiles[1226]: Failed to create directory or subvolume "/srv": Bad file descriptor Nov 21 13:44:12 node-blc49 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 21 13:44:12 node-blc49 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 21 13:44:12 node-blc49 systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories. This happens on btrfs root filesystems in real hardware and on our virtualized servers as well. 237-3ubuntu10.6 didnt show this errors and going back to 237-3ubuntu10 removes them as well. # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 # apt-cache policy systemd systemd: Installiert: 237-3ubuntu10.9 Installationskandidat: 237-3ubuntu10.9 Versionstabelle: *** 237-3ubuntu10.9 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 237-3ubuntu10 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1804603/+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