Bytemark VPS was using 3.2.60. Swapped it out for 3.4.92 and the package correctly configures.
Thanks for the pointer. Iain -- 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/1320563 Title: invoke-rc.d: initscript systemd-logind, action "start" failed. Status in “systemd” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Impossible to do sudo apt-get upgrade, the console output is ubuntu@ip-10-184-21-111:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Setting up libpam-systemd:i386 (204-5ubuntu20.2) ... start: Job failed to start invoke-rc.d: initscript systemd-logind, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package libpam-systemd:i386 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: libpam-systemd:i386 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: systemd-services 204-5ubuntu20.2 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.32-312.24-ec2 2.6.32.27+drm33.12 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-312-ec2 i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat May 17 23:24:50 2014 Ec2AMI: ami-ab8592c2 Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown) Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1b Ec2InstanceType: m1.medium Ec2Kernel: aki-fec63697 Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: systemd UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-19 (28 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1320563/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

