I'm not sure if it's the same problem, but, I have something that at
least has similar symptoms which may be easier to reproduce:
Release: The VirtualBox version of the bento/debian-8.6 Vagrant VM
Reproduction:
1. apt-get install systemd-cron
2. Futz around until you realize jessie's systemd is too old to support
hourly cronjobs.
3. apt-get install cron (without rebooting in between)
On my VM, the attempt to reinstall started encountering timeouts when it
attempted to setup the newly-installed packages and, from then on, any
attempt to use `systemctl` resulted in `org.freedesktop.systemd1`
timeouts. (To the point that Vagrant would error out unless I reset the
VM because anything less drastic would die while trying to ask for a
clean shutdown.)
(I don't think my "trim it down further" ansible playbook touches
anything relevant to this but it's also available on request.)
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