Comment 20 for bug 1811580

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:39:55PM -0000, Matt P wrote:

> Anyway, root cause seems to be this systemd-tmpfiles error. Tmpfile gets
> purged at reboot and doesn't get recreated.

> Seems pretty major that applying security updates would lock you out of
> your server. If I didn't happen to have a serial console with this
> particular VPS provider (some others I use don't provide one)...I would
> have no idea what was going on.

> I get this might be due to weird openvz image or older kernel...but
> these ubuntu openvz images are very common.

As per
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1811580/comments/14
you must have at least 042stab134.7 installed. Your comment shows that you
have 042sta120.18 installed. You will need to contact your hosting provider
about updating.

Given that an updated kernel exists, we do not intend to reduce security for
all other Ubuntu users on account of hosting providers who are both running
Ubuntu container guests on top of an unsupported non-Ubuntu kernel, *and*
are not keeping their kernel up to date.