[cheph]

Yeah canonical is not too fond of error checking. I dropped ubuntu because it was calling sysv style init scripts from systemd unit files and not checking for errors (similar to what you can see for lxc here https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/init/systemd/l... and https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/master/config/init/sysvinit/...).

So you would get everything appearing fine but when you dig down you find something is dying but because of their bad engineering choices it is incredibly difficult to figure out why.