[Bug 1320563] Re: invoke-rc.d: initscript systemd-logind, action "start" failed.

[Stephen Spencer]

If it helps anyone else, I was getting this because my VPS provider was
(unbeknownst to me) overriding the default kernel and using the same
kernel as when the server was first created (a 2.6 one). Once I bumped
this up to a less ancient version, there was no longer a problem.

To check if you've got the same problem, this was the step in the postinst script which failed for me:
sudo invoke-rc.d systemd-logind start
and looking in the log:
sudo tail /var/log/upstart/systemd-logind.log
gave this line which indicated an old kernel without cgroups support:
mount: mount point /sys/fs/cgroup does not exist

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Title:
  invoke-rc.d: initscript systemd-logind, action "start" failed.

Status in “systemd” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Impossible to do sudo apt-get upgrade, the console output is

  ubuntu at 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)

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