Comment 10 for bug 1961418

any suggestion to fix this?

I had tried below command.
root@plis231v:~# sudo dpkg -l | grep systemd
ii libpam-systemd:amd64 229-4ubuntu21.31+esm1 amd64 system and service manager - PAM mod
ii libsystemd0:amd64 229-4ubuntu21.31+esm1 amd64 systemd utility library
ii python3-systemd 231-2build1 amd64 Python 3 bindings for systemd
ii systemd 229-4ubuntu21.31+esm1 amd64 system and service manager
rc systemd-services 204-5ubuntu20.31 amd64 systemd runtime services
ii systemd-shim 9-1bzr4ubuntu1 amd64 shim for systemd
root@plis231v:~#
root@plis231v:~#
root@plis231v:~#
root@plis231v:~# apt-get install --reinstall systemd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/3,659 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 77423 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../systemd_229-4ubuntu21.31+esm1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking systemd (229-4ubuntu21.31+esm1) over (229-4ubuntu21.31+esm1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3.6+esm1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19.1) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Setting up systemd (229-4ubuntu21.31+esm1) ...
addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
Operation failed: No such file or directory
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log", ignoring.
root@plis231v:~# systemctl status
Failed to read server status: Invalid argument
root@plis231v:~#
root@plis231v:~#