I'm starting to think that there is something wrong with the horsea machine indeed: still not able to upgrade to lunar. Starting from jammy or from kinetic failed.
#Jammy Deploying again jammy and doing do-release-upgrade again failed with ssh, with differents things after rebooting and trying the do the release upgrade (I have outputs, but I don't remember exactly at what point I did the reboot of the machine, i.e: "Missing privilege separation directory: /run/sshd" could happen after reboot, but not sure). #Kinetic So, ok... let's think is something wrong with the jammy image that is being deployed (a remote possibility, I think, but ...).... trying the upgrading from Kinetic: failed. I checked the system status before starting the upgrade and it was not degraded. It was stucked at 97% on: Setting up snapd (2.58+22.10.1) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20snapd.conf ... Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 145. Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 145. snapd.failure.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it. snapd.snap-repair.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it. Failed to restart snapd.mounts-pre.target: Operation refused, unit snapd.mounts-pre.target may be requested by dependenc y only (it is configured to refuse manual start/stop). See system logs and 'systemctl status snapd.mounts-pre.target' for details. system status was: │ └─unattended-upgrades.service │ ├─ 1227 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown --wait-for-signal │ └─11628 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown --wait-for-signal └─user.slice └─user-1000.slice └─session-1.scope ├─ 1856 "sshd: ubuntu [priv]" ├─ 1937 "sshd: ubuntu@pts/0" ├─ 1941 -bash ├─ 2302 sudo apt upgrade -y ├─ 2303 sudo apt upgrade -y ├─ 2304 apt upgrade -y ├─ 5750 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 39 --configure --pending ├─ 5751 sh -c "(test -x /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status && /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status || cat > /dev/null> ├─ 5752 sh -c "(test -x /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status && /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status || cat > /dev/null> ├─ 5753 /bin/sh /usr/lib/needrestart/dpkg-status ├─11336 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/snapd.postinst configure 2.57.5+22.10ubuntu0.1 ├─11501 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke restart snapd.aa-prompt-listener.service snapd.apparmor.servi> ├─11563 systemctl --quiet --system restart snapd.aa-prompt-listener.service snapd.apparmor.service snapd.autoim> └─11564 /bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent --watch After that, it failed with: Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 145. Setting up openssh-sftp-server (1:9.0p1-1ubuntu7.3) ... Setting up needrestart (3.6-1ubuntu0.1) ... Setting up openssh-server (1:9.0p1-1ubuntu7.3) ... rescue-ssh.target is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it. Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 145. dpkg: error processing package openssh-server (--configure): installed openssh-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Setting up bind9-dnsutils (1:9.18.12-0ubuntu0.22.10.2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-0ubuntu4) ... Processing triggers for rsyslog (8.2208.0-1ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for ufw (0.36.1-4build1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.2-2) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.14.0-2ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.140ubuntu17) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.19.0-46-generic Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20230311ubuntu0.22.10.1) ... Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs... 0 added, 0 removed; done. Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d... done. Errors were encountered while processing: openssh-server needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) System status after that was: ubuntu@node-horsea:~$ systemctl status -l Failed to read server status: Connection timed out ubuntu@node-horsea:~$ systemctl status -l ● node-horsea State: degraded Units: 425 loaded (incl. loaded aliases) Jobs: 1 queued Failed: 7 units Since: Thu 2023-07-27 10:48:27 UTC; 18min ago systemd: 251.4-1ubuntu7.3 CGroup: / ├─init.scope │ └─1 /lib/systemd/systemd --- --system --deserialize 22 ├─system.slice │ ├─cron.service │ │ └─1138 /usr/sbin/cron -f -P │ ├─dbus.service │ │ ├─1139 @dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only │ │ └─6714 @dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only │ ├─irqbalance.service │ │ ├─1145 /usr/sbin/irqbalance --foreground │ │ └─6719 /usr/sbin/irqbalance --foreground │ ├─multipathd.service │ │ └─6654 /sbin/multipathd -d -s │ ├─packagekit.service │ │ └─2204 /usr/libexec/packagekitd │ ├─polkit.service │ │ └─2208 /usr/libexec/polkitd --no-debug │ ├─rsyslog.service │ │ └─12184 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE │ ├─snapd.service │ │ ├─ 1150 /usr/lib/snapd/snapd │ │ └─23845 /usr/lib/snapd/snapd │ ├─ssh.service │ │ ├─ 1849 "sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd -D [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups" │ │ ├─11762 "sshd: ubuntu [priv]" │ │ ├─11841 "sshd: ubuntu@pts/3" │ │ ├─11842 -bash │ │ ├─23869 systemctl status -l │ │ └─23870 less │ ├─system-getty.slice │ │ └─getty@tty1.service │ │ └─6840 /sbin/agetty -o "-p -- \\u" --noclear - linux │ ├─system-serial\x2dgetty.slice │ │ └─serial-getty@ttyS1.service │ │ └─6834 /sbin/agetty -o "-p -- \\u" --keep-baud 115200,57600,38400,9600 - vt220 │ ├─systemd-journald.service │ │ └─3834 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald │ ├─systemd-logind.service │ │ └─11626 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind │ ├─systemd-networkd.service │ │ ├─1086 /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd │ │ └─4522 /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd │ ├─systemd-resolved.service │ │ └─6942 /lib/systemd/systemd-resolved │ ├─systemd-timesyncd.service │ │ └─5877 /lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd │ ├─systemd-udevd.service │ │ └─udev │ │ └─5921 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd │ └─unattended-upgrades.service │ ├─ 1227 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown --wait-for-signal │ └─11628 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrade-shutdown --wait-for-signal └─user.slice └─user-1000.slice └─session-1.scope ├─ 1856 "sshd: ubuntu [priv]" ├─ 1937 "sshd: ubuntu@pts/0" ├─ 1941 -bash ├─23835 sudo su ├─23836 sudo su ├─23837 su └─23838 bash -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2004551 Title: upgrade to lunar fails due to rescue-ssh.target or port 22 takeover Status in openssh package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, I just upgraded a system from Jammy to Lunar and openssh-server refuses to upgrade well. Setting up openssh-server (1:9.0p1-1ubuntu8) ... Replacing config file /etc/ssh/sshd_config with new version Replacing config file /etc/ssh/sshd_config with new version Synchronizing state of ssh.service with SysV service script with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install. Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable ssh rescue-ssh.target is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it. Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 145. dpkg: error processing package openssh-server (--configure): installed openssh-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-0ubuntu4) ... Errors were encountered while processing: openssh-server Error: Timeout was reached needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I'm not sure what exactly it is. This output complains about rescue-ssh.target and indeed that can not be started even directly. $ sudo systemctl start rescue-ssh.target A dependency job for rescue-ssh.target failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details. And in postinst is a try to start it: $ grep rescue /var/lib/dpkg/info/openssh-server.postinst deb-systemd-invoke $_dh_action 'rescue-ssh.target' >/dev/null || true But I think the underlying issue is that ssh is already on, and I'm logged in via it. And that makes the service restart of the ssh socket which was added break. Feb 02 10:40:56 node-horsea systemd[104560]: ssh.socket: Failed to create listening socket ([::]:22): Address already in use Feb 02 10:40:56 node-horsea systemd[1]: ssh.socket: Failed to receive listening socket ([::]:22): Input/output error Feb 02 10:40:56 node-horsea systemd[1]: ssh.socket: Failed to listen on sockets: Input/output error Feb 02 10:40:56 node-horsea systemd[1]: ssh.socket: Failed with result 'resources'. Now, whichever it is, it is hard to resolve. The only way to get the socket to own it would be rebooting so that sshd lets go and systemd can take over. I could reboot, but that is not the point. What if I'd want to get the service and upgrade completed before reboot. Because as of now dpkg considers the system unhappy, and that would usually be a sign for "better not reboot before being resolved" to me. One thing though, I have not upgraded with do-release-upgrade - would we / do we have magic there to make the ssh socket activation transition smoother? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/2004551/+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