systemd now correctly conflicts with systemd-shim, and installing both simultaniously is now even harder:
$ sudo apt install systemd-shim Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: python3-netifaces Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following additional packages will be installed: cgmanager cgroup-lite libcgmanager0 libnih-dbus1 Suggested packages: pm-utils The following packages will be REMOVED: cloud-init friendly-recovery init libnss-systemd libpam-systemd netplan.io nplan plymouth plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text policykit-1 snapd systemd systemd-sysv ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard The following NEW packages will be installed: cgmanager cgroup-lite libcgmanager0 libnih-dbus1 systemd-shim WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! init systemd-sysv (due to init) 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 15 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 147 kB of archives. After this operation, 77.6 MB disk space will be freed. You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ?] ^C ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg-query -W systemd systemd 237-3ubuntu10.10 Thus it should also cause removal of systemd-shim on upgrades. Marking as validation done. ** Tags removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic ** Tags added: verification-done verification-done-bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773859 Title: upgrades to 18.04 fail To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1773859/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs