I resolved this by disabling one of the duplicate services with: statusctl disable rc.local.service
A reboot confirms it to have fixed the problem with no (apparent) ill effect. -- 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/1895424 Title: duplicate rc local service Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 using "do-release-upgrade -d" Creates two systemd services: rc.local and rc-local This has the unfortunate event of running /etc/rc.local multiple times during bootup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1895424/+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