Tested package on a Ubuntu 17.10 - Windows Subsystem for Linux installation. Was getting the error with systemd (234-2ubuntu12.3): --- begin paste --- sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: bash The following packages will be upgraded: systemd-sysv 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/11.6 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting up systemd (234-2ubuntu12.3) ... addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group. Exiting. [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf:15] Failed to replace specifiers: /tmp/systemd-private-%b-* [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf:16] Failed to replace specifiers: /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf:17] Failed to replace specifiers: /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-* [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf:18] Failed to replace specifiers: /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp dpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: systemd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) --- end paste --- No longer getting the error after installing systemd (234-2ubuntu12.4) including dependencies: --- begin paste --- sudo apt-get install systemd/artful-proposed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version '234-2ubuntu12.4' (Ubuntu:17.10/artful-proposed [amd64]) for 'systemd' Selected version '234-2ubuntu12.4' (Ubuntu:17.10/artful-proposed [amd64]) for 'libsystemd0' because of 'systemd' The following additional packages will be installed: libsystemd0 Suggested packages: systemd-container policykit-1 Recommended packages: libpam-systemd The following packages will be REMOVED: libpam-systemd policykit-1 ubuntu-standard The following packages will be upgraded: libsystemd0 systemd 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 2,990 kB of archives. After this operation, 856 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-proposed/main amd64 systemd amd64 234-2ubuntu12.4 [2,782 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful-proposed/main amd64 libsystemd0 amd64 234-2ubuntu12.4 [209 kB] Fetched 2,990 kB in 2s (1,407 kB/s) (Reading database ... 75910 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ubuntu-standard (1.404.1) ... Removing policykit-1 (0.105-18) ... Removing libpam-systemd:amd64 (234-2ubuntu12.3) ... (Reading database ... 75864 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../systemd_234-2ubuntu12.4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking systemd (234-2ubuntu12.4) over (234-2ubuntu12.3) ... Preparing to unpack .../libsystemd0_234-2ubuntu12.4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libsystemd0:amd64 (234-2ubuntu12.4) over (234-2ubuntu12.3) ... Setting up libsystemd0:amd64 (234-2ubuntu12.4) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.26-0ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up systemd (234-2ubuntu12.4) ... addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group. Exiting. Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.22-1ubuntu1) ... sudo apt-get install systemd-sysv/artful-proposed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version '234-2ubuntu12.4' (Ubuntu:17.10/artful-proposed [amd64]) for 'systemd-sysv' The following packages will be upgraded: systemd-sysv 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/11.5 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 75864 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../systemd-sysv_234-2ubuntu12.4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking systemd-sysv (234-2ubuntu12.4) over (234-2ubuntu12.1) ... Setting up systemd-sysv (234-2ubuntu12.4) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... --- end paste ---