Bug#853276: udev: Upgrade from 232-8 to 232-14 results in 'systemd-udevd.service: Failed with result 'timeout'

[ant]

ant wrote:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 31.01.2017 um 21:34 schrieb ant:

>>>   FWIW, when i had the recent upgrade to 232-14 go through=20
>>> it did not complete the first attempt.  i just ran apt-get=20
>>> upgrade again and it completed.
>>
>> Do you have systemd 232-14 installed now
>
>   yes.
>
>   i keep forgetting that udev is not systemd, the 
> half-configured and incomplete install was from
> udev not systemd.
>
>   the second apt-get upgrade finished udev.
>
>   dpkg -l | grep systemd and udev now shows everything as "ii" 
>
>   i checked dpkg.log but unfortunately it says nothing
> other than half-configured for udev when it happened
> and then later shows it as installed.  no capture of
> error messages in there.
>
> ...
> 2017-01-28 11:25:49 configure udev:i386 232-14 <none>
> 2017-01-28 11:25:49 status unpacked udev:i386 232-14
> 2017-01-28 11:25:49 status unpacked udev:i386 232-14
> 2017-01-28 11:25:49 status unpacked udev:i386 232-14
> 2017-01-28 11:25:49 status unpacked udev:i386 232-14
> 2017-01-28 11:25:49 status unpacked udev:i386 232-14
> 2017-01-28 11:25:49 status unpacked udev:i386 232-14
> 2017-01-28 11:25:49 status half-configured udev:i386 232-14
> ...
> 2017-01-28 12:42:34 configure udev:i386 232-14 <none>
> 2017-01-28 12:42:34 status half-configured udev:i386 232-14
> 2017-01-28 12:42:42 status installed udev:i386 232-14
> ...


addtional info:

found this in apt/term.log


...
Setting up udev (232-14) ...
addgroup: The group `input' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
Job for systemd-udevd.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status systemd-udevd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "restart" failed.
● systemd-udevd.service - udev Kernel Device Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (start) since Sat 2017-01-28 11:27:23 EST; 74ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-udevd.service(8)
           man:udev(7)
 Main PID: 5438 (systemd-udevd)
    Tasks: 1
   CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-udevd.service
           └─5438 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd

Jan 28 11:27:23 ant systemd[1]: ESC[0;1;31mFailed to start udev Kernel Device Manager.ESC[0m
Jan 28 11:27:23 ant systemd[1]: ESC[0;1;39msystemd-udevd.service: Unit entered failed …ate.ESC[0m
Jan 28 11:27:23 ant systemd[1]: ESC[0;1;39msystemd-udevd.service: Failed with result '…ut'.ESC[0m
Jan 28 11:27:23 ant systemd[1]: systemd-udevd.service: Service has no hold-…art.
Jan 28 11:27:23 ant systemd[1]: Stopped udev Kernel Device Manager.
Jan 28 11:27:23 ant systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
dpkg: error processing package udev (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
...

  HTH


  ant