That was a red herring, actually. The cause of failure appears to be the next line.
After fixing that so that the mkdir succeeds, it still fails on Failed to allocate manager object: No such file or directory -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to lxc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514690 Title: rebooting container with systemd >= 226 fails to create /lxc/adt- xenial/init.scope control group To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxc/+bug/1514690/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs