@pitti, This is probably not useful, since I just ran aptitude as soon as the upgrade to 16 completed with errors, and had it fix the broken packages (with no problems). So systemd seems to be installed fine for me too, now. Just in case there is some clue, though, here is the current output from the two debug commands you mentioned:
steven@goliath:~$ sudo sed -i '2 s/^.*/set -x/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.prerm steven@goliath:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall systemd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/3,643 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 186822 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../systemd_229-4ubuntu4_amd64.deb ... + set -e + [ upgrade = remove ] + dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/50-systemd-user.sh 228-3~ -- upgrade 229-4ubuntu4 + dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf 228-5~ -- upgrade 229-4ubuntu4 + dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/systemd/systemd-journald.conf /etc/systemd/journald.conf 204-1~ -- upgrade 229-4ubuntu4 + dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/systemd/systemd-logind.conf /etc/systemd/logind.conf 204-1~ -- upgrade 229-4ubuntu4 + dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/bash_completion.d/systemd-bash-completion.sh 204-1~ -- upgrade 229-4ubuntu4 + dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/bash_completion.d/systemctl-bash-completion.sh 204-1~ -- upgrade 229-4ubuntu4 Unpacking systemd (229-4ubuntu4) over (229-4ubuntu4) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up systemd (229-4ubuntu4) ... addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group. Exiting. steven@goliath:~$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1570310 Title: package systemd 229-4ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1570310/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
