I can't reproduce your error: ubuntu@lp1863873-b:~$ dpkg -l systemd|grep ii ii systemd 237-3ubuntu10.38 amd64 system and service manager ubuntu@lp1863873-b:~$ ip a 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 50: eth0@if51: mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:16:3e:40:f5:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0 inet 10.202.51.98/24 brd 10.202.51.255 scope global dynamic eth0 valid_lft 3584sec preferred_lft 3584sec inet6 fe80::216:3eff:fe40:f5e0/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever ubuntu@lp1863873-b:~$ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libfreetype6 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following packages will be upgraded: libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 libudev1 systemd systemd-sysv udev 7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 4502 kB of archives. After this operation, 10.2 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libnss-systemd amd64 237-3ubuntu10.39 [104 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libsystemd0 amd64 237-3ubuntu10.39 [206 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libpam-systemd amd64 237-3ubuntu10.39 [107 kB] Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 systemd amd64 237-3ubuntu10.39 [2912 kB] Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 udev amd64 237-3ubuntu10.39 [1102 kB] Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libudev1 amd64 237-3ubuntu10.39 [56.1 kB] Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 systemd-sysv amd64 237-3ubuntu10.39 [13.9 kB] Fetched 4502 kB in 1s (3046 kB/s) (Reading database ... 28660 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libnss-systemd_237-3ubuntu10.39_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libnss-systemd:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.39) over (237-3ubuntu10.38) ... Preparing to unpack .../libsystemd0_237-3ubuntu10.39_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libsystemd0:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.39) over (237-3ubuntu10.38) ... Setting up libsystemd0:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.39) ... (Reading database ... 28660 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libpam-systemd_237-3ubuntu10.39_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libpam-systemd:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.39) over (237-3ubuntu10.38) ... Preparing to unpack .../systemd_237-3ubuntu10.39_amd64.deb ... Unpacking systemd (237-3ubuntu10.39) over (237-3ubuntu10.38) ... Preparing to unpack .../udev_237-3ubuntu10.39_amd64.deb ... Unpacking udev (237-3ubuntu10.39) over (237-3ubuntu10.38) ... Preparing to unpack .../libudev1_237-3ubuntu10.39_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libudev1:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.39) over (237-3ubuntu10.38) ... Setting up libudev1:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.39) ... Setting up systemd (237-3ubuntu10.39) ... (Reading database ... 28660 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../systemd-sysv_237-3ubuntu10.39_amd64.deb ... Unpacking systemd-sysv (237-3ubuntu10.39) over (237-3ubuntu10.38) ... Setting up libnss-systemd:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.39) ... Setting up systemd-sysv (237-3ubuntu10.39) ... Setting up udev (237-3ubuntu10.39) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up libpam-systemd:amd64 (237-3ubuntu10.39) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Processing triggers for dbus (1.12.2-1ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.9) ... ubuntu@lp1863873-b:~$ ip a 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 50: eth0@if51: mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:16:3e:40:f5:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0 inet 10.202.51.98/24 brd 10.202.51.255 scope global dynamic eth0 valid_lft 3593sec preferred_lft 3593sec inet6 fe80::216:3eff:fe40:f5e0/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever