Bug#950533: upgrade fails in a chroot

[Steve McIntyre]

Package: systemd
Version: 244.1-2
Severity: serious

Hi folks,

I'm guessing this is fallout from enabling persistent journal by
default, maybe. I have a development box running multiple chroots, and
ths sid chroots are now failing to upgradw with the following errors:

Upgrading from 240-5 to 244.1-2:

...
Need to get 0 B/5987 kB of archives.
After this operation, 444 kB of additional disk space will be used.
E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (19: No such device)
Setting up systemd (244.1-2) ...
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd-tmp.conf:11] Failed to replace specifiers: /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd-tmp.conf:12] Failed to replace specifiers: /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd-tmp.conf:13] Failed to replace specifiers: /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-*
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd-tmp.conf:14] Failed to replace specifiers: /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd-tmp.conf:22] Failed to replace specifiers: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/.#core*.%b*
ACL operation on "/var/log/journal" failed: No such file or directory
ACL operation on "/var/log/journal" failed: No such file or directory
Failed to re-open '/var/log/journal': No such file or directory
fchmod() of /var/log/journal failed: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure):
 installed systemd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 73
Errors were encountered while processing:
 systemd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I don't have a /var/log/journal in those chroots.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
  APT prefers stable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser          3.118
ii  libacl1          2.2.53-4
ii  libapparmor1     2.13.2-10
ii  libaudit1        1:2.8.4-3
ii  libblkid1        2.33.1-0.1
ii  libc6            2.28-10
ii  libcap2          1:2.25-2
ii  libcryptsetup12  2:2.1.0-5+deb10u2
ii  libgcrypt20      1.8.4-5
ii  libgnutls30      3.6.7-4
ii  libgpg-error0    1.35-1
ii  libidn11         1.33-2.2
ii  libip4tc0        1.8.2-4
ii  libkmod2         26-1
ii  liblz4-1         1.8.3-1
ii  liblzma5         5.2.4-1
ii  libmount1        2.33.1-0.1
ii  libpam0g         1.3.1-5
ii  libseccomp2      2.3.3-4
ii  libselinux1      2.8-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0      241-7~deb10u2
ii  mount            2.33.1-0.1
ii  util-linux       2.33.1-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.12.16-1
ii  libpam-systemd  241-7~deb10u2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-25
ii  systemd-container  241-7~deb10u2

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.133+deb10u1
ii  udev             241-7~deb10u2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information