systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service fails after update

[SV]

1. Description: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
Release: 16.04

2. apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 229-4ubuntu21.15
  Candidate: 229-4ubuntu21.15
  Version table:
 *** 229-4ubuntu21.15 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     229-4ubuntu4 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

3. After VPS was rebooted I can't to connect via SSH

4. SSH Service fail because systemd-tmpfiles service fail to start after update
I can connect to VPS (openVZ) only via emergency console

journalctl -b 0 -u systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
-- Logs begin at Sun 2019-01-13 18:34:20 EET, end at Sun 2019-01-13 18:50:00 EET. --
Jan 13 18:34:20 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd-tmpfiles[94]: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log", ignoring.
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd-tmpfiles[94]: Failed to validate path /var/run/screen: Too many levels of symbolic links
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd-tmpfiles[94]: Failed to validate path /var/run/sshd: Too many levels of symbolic links
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd-tmpfiles[94]: Failed to validate path /var/run/sudo: Too many levels of symbolic links
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd-tmpfiles[94]: Failed to validate path /var/run/sudo/ts: Too many levels of symbolic links
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd-tmpfiles[94]: fchownat() of /run/utmp failed: Invalid argument
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd-tmpfiles[94]: fchownat() of /run/systemd/netif failed: Invalid argument
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd-tmpfiles[94]: fchownat() of /run/systemd/netif/links failed: Invalid argument
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd-tmpfiles[94]: fchownat() of /run/systemd/netif/leases failed: Invalid argument
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jan 13 18:34:21 wok.f.time4vps.cloud systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

workaround to start SSH is mkdir /run/sshd

The situation like this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1804847

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.