I ran into the same problem, but I found that it should work if bootstrapping from 22.04.
The problem appears to be due to the version of QEMU available for 20.04. The user mode emulation doesn't support OFD (open file description) locks according to: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg06566.html It looks like that was fixed in QEMU 5.1. Since 22.04 carries QEMU 6.2, I was able to work around this issue by manually upgrading the qemu- user-static package to the 22.04 version. This actually works on 20.04 because the binaries are statically linked. -- 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/2054901 Title: Systemd fails to install on Noble arm64 Status in debootstrap package in Ubuntu: New Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hello! When trying to bootstrap a new arm64 rootfs using the upcoming Noble release the systemd post-installation script will fail. Please see the file debootstrap.log attached for package install logs. To reproduce: $ sudo debootstrap --no-merged-usr --arch arm64 noble rootfs http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports Description: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS Release: 20.04 systemd: Installed: (none) Candidate: 255.2-3ubuntu2 Version table: 255.2-3ubuntu2 500 500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports noble/main arm64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debootstrap/+bug/2054901/+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
