systemd 234-2ubuntu12.1 takes 1minute+ for systemctl --system daemon-reload

[Steve Langasek]

I noticed that today's package upgrades were taking a long time. Looking at the process list, I saw that systemctl daemon-reload was running from each maintainer script and taking a long time to complete - upwards of 1 minute for each invocation.

I did not see such behavior previously, and I haven't done anything by hand that should confuse systemd or cause it to take an excessively long time to reload its state.

After a reboot for unrelated reasons, systemctl daemon-reload now returns immediately.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: systemd 234-2ubuntu12.1
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-041300-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Nov 22 09:46:43 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-09-24 (2616 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 2306CTO
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.13.0-041300-generic root=/dev/mapper/hostname-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: systemd
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-19 (34 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: G2ET97WW (2.57 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 2306CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Defined
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrG2ET97WW(2.57):bd10/25/2013:svnLENOVO:pn2306CTO:pvrThinkPadX230:rvnLENOVO:rn2306CTO:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad X230
dmi.product.name: 2306CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X230
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

please reopen if this is still an issue