By bmaron
I was trying to upgrade a droplet from debian 8 to 9, and i ran into a load of issues with systemd like
Failed to start System Logging Service.
Feb 20 21:18:07 xxx-s-2vcpu-4gb-ams2-01 systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 20 21:18:07 xxx-s-2vcpu-4gb-ams2-01 systemd[1]: rsyslog.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
and because of it
dpkg: error processing package rsyslog (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ssh:
ssh depends on openssh-server (>= 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u2); however:
Package openssh-server is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package ssh (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
openssh-server
redis-server
rsyslog
ssh
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)```
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Hello there,
I know it’s been a while since this question was originally posted however, I’ll always recommend to double check if the apt dist-upgrade and the apt update && apt upgrade returned any errors and start from there,
Also, it is always recommended to back up your data and take a snapshot of the droplet before starting the update process. This will make you rest assured that if something goes wrong you’ll have your droplet back online in no time.
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/snapshots/how-to/snapshot-droplets/
Regards
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