I have verified the fix on Jammy using systemd 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 from jammy-proposed: nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy systemd systemd: Installed: 249.11-0ubuntu3.9 Candidate: 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 Version table: 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 Packages *** 249.11-0ubuntu3.9 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 249.11-0ubuntu3.7 500 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages 249.11-0ubuntu3 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.19.0-45-generic root=UUID=32a6b55f-64d3-421b-a77d-2f9a2c6d68be ro quiet splash --- vt.handoff=7 nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ sudo apt install systemd -y [sudo] password for nr: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libflashrom1 libftdi1-2 libllvm13 linux-headers-5.15.0-25 linux-headers-5.15.0-25-generic linux-image-5.15.0-25-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-25-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-25-generic Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 systemd-oomd systemd-sysv systemd-timesyncd Suggested packages: systemd-container libtss2-rc0 The following packages will be upgraded: libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 systemd systemd-oomd systemd-sysv systemd-timesyncd 7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 217 not upgraded. Need to get 5,312 kB of archives. After this operation, 4,096 B disk space will be freed. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 libnss-systemd amd64 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 [133 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 systemd-timesyncd amd64 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 [31.2 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 systemd-sysv amd64 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 [10.5 kB] Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 systemd-oomd amd64 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 [34.8 kB] Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 libpam-systemd amd64 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 [203 kB] Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 systemd amd64 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 [4,581 kB] Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 libsystemd0 amd64 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 [319 kB] [...] nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy systemd systemd: Installed: 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 Candidate: 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 Version table: *** 249.11-0ubuntu3.10 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 249.11-0ubuntu3.9 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 Packages 249.11-0ubuntu3.7 500 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages 249.11-0ubuntu3 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 Packages nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ grep -Fsx systemd /run/reboot-required.pkgs systemd nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ reboot [...] nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ sudo systemctl daemon-reexec nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ journalctl --grep "Found left-over process" -b 0 Aug 28 11:55:10 clean-jammy-amd64 systemd[1]: kerneloops.service: Found left-ov> nr@clean-jammy-amd64:~$ cat /proc/1/cmdline | tr '\0' '\n' /lib/systemd/systemd --system --deserialize 107 splash ---