podman: container does not start because of `systemd support for managing cgroups is not available`

BUG REPORT:

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Description

When I run podman on a fresh installed ubuntu 18 then I get the following error.

Command:

podman run -e HTTPD_VAR_RUN=/var/run/httpd -e HTTPD_MAIN_CONF_D_PATH=/etc/httpd/conf.d                     -e HTTPD_MAIN_CONF_PATH=/etc/httpd/conf  -e HTTPD_CONTAINER_SCRIPTS_PATH=/usr/share/container-scripts/httpd/                     registry.fedoraproject.org/f27/httpd /usr/bin/run-httpd

Error:

container create failed: systemd cgroup flag passed, but systemd support for managing cgroups is not available
: internal libpod error

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Setup droplet doctl compute droplet create secrets --region fra1 --image ubuntu-18-04-x64 --ssh-keys 7008657,13468054 --size s-4vcpu-8gb --wait --enable-private-networking

2. Build Podman as desribed in readme

3. run the command

podman run -e HTTPD_VAR_RUN=/var/run/httpd -e HTTPD_MAIN_CONF_D_PATH=/etc/httpd/conf.d                     -e HTTPD_MAIN_CONF_PATH=/etc/httpd/conf  -e HTTPD_CONTAINER_SCRIPTS_PATH=/usr/share/container-scripts/httpd/                     registry.fedoraproject.org/f27/httpd /usr/bin/run-httpd

Describe the results you received:

container create failed: systemd cgroup flag passed, but systemd support for managing cgroups is not available
: internal libpod error

Describe the results you expected: I expect a running container

Additional information you deem important (e.g. issue happens only occasionally):

Output of podman version:

Version:       0.9.4-dev
Go Version:    go1.10.1
OS/Arch:       linux/amd64

Output of podman info:

podman info
host:
  Conmon:
    package: Unknown
    path: /usr/libexec/podman/conmon
    version: 'conmon version 1.12.0-dev, commit: 3b00e355d5247f7235b9612799554f4535a1e547'
  MemFree: 5373353984
  MemTotal: 8364032000
  OCIRuntime:
    package: Unknown
    path: /usr/bin/runc
    version: |-
      runc version 1.0.0-rc5+dev
      commit: 00dc70017d222b178a002ed30e9321b12647af2d
      spec: 1.0.0
  SwapFree: 0
  SwapTotal: 0
  arch: amd64
  cpus: 4
  hostname: secrets
  kernel: 4.15.0-30-generic
  os: linux
  uptime: 1h 55m 23.39s (Approximately 0.04 days)
insecure registries:
  registries: []
registries:
  registries:
  - docker.io
  - registry.fedoraproject.org
  - registry.access.redhat.com
store:
  ContainerStore:
    number: 7
  GraphDriverName: overlay
  GraphOptions: []
  GraphRoot: /var/lib/containers/storage
  GraphStatus:
    Backing Filesystem: extfs
    Native Overlay Diff: "true"
    Supports d_type: "true"
  ImageStore:
    number: 1
  RunRoot: /var/run/containers/storage

Additional environment details (AWS, VirtualBox, physical, etc.):

• Digital Ocean droplet
• lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic