{"id":282,"date":"2025-07-25T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/?p=282"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:52:42","slug":"debian-bookworm-backports-systemd-252-to-254-upgrade-missing-so-problem-and-hacky-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/2025\/07\/25\/debian-bookworm-backports-systemd-252-to-254-upgrade-missing-so-problem-and-hacky-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"debian bookworm-backports systemd 252 to 254 upgrade missing .so problem and hacky fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, unwisely, I thought I&#8217;d run <code>apt -t bookworm-backports upgrade<\/code> on a system here at home to grab all the available backports (note to future me: be more selective about this). This had worked on several other machines but failed on this one because of a missing <code>libsystemd-shared.252.so<\/code> file needed by <code>systemd-machine-id-setup<\/code>. I&#8217;m not immediately sure why (maybe I had never landed on that version on this host?) but wanted to share the solution that worked for me: copying the missing so files from another, as yet-unupgraded, machine&#8217;s <code>\/usr\/lib\/x86_64-linux-gnu\/systemd<\/code> dir. That lets <code>systemd-machine-id-setup<\/code> work for the apt upgrade run.<\/p>\n<p>In case it helps anyone else later searching for this, the error message was:<br \/>\n<code>Setting up systemd (254.26-1~bpo12+1) ...<br \/>\nsystemd-machine-id-setup: error while loading shared libraries: libsystemd-shared-252.so: cannot op<br \/>\nen shared object file: No such file or directory<br \/>\ndpkg: error processing package systemd (--configure):<br \/>\n installed systemd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127<br \/>\nErrors were encountered while processing:<br \/>\n systemd<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, unwisely, I thought I&#8217;d run apt -t bookworm-backports upgrade on a system here at home to grab all the available backports (note to future me: be more selective about this). This had worked on several other machines but failed on this one because of a missing libsystemd-shared.252.so file needed by systemd-machine-id-setup. I&#8217;m not immediately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/2025\/07\/25\/debian-bookworm-backports-systemd-252-to-254-upgrade-missing-so-problem-and-hacky-fix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">debian bookworm-backports systemd 252 to 254 upgrade missing .so problem and hacky fix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perilouscodpiece.org\/blaeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}