Upgrade debian from 8 to 9, issue with systemd

Posted on February 20, 2018

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)```


is there smth i can do ?

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alexdo

February 26, 2023

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