Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:09:49 +0530 Martin Furter <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: systemd > Version: 260~rc2-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > the problems started when i tried to do a dist-upgrade. > > I was running kernel 4.19.0-5 because in later ones pm-suspend did not work > anymore. > > The last few lines of output of dist-upgrade looked like this: > > Setting up systemd (260~rc2-1) ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/journald.conf ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/logind.conf ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/networkd.conf ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/sleep.conf ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/system.conf ... > Installing new version of config file /etc/systemd/user.conf ... > Cannot open '/etc/machine-id': Protocol driver not attached > dpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure): > installed systemd package post-installation script subprocess returned error > exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > systemd > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Why is machine-id missing on this machine? Sounds like something is wrong with the setup. machine-id must exist, otherwise the installation is broken. Please check what's up with that, fix it, and try again.
