On 2025-08-18 15:17:05 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > In my case, on trixie upgrade, my /etc/sysctl.conf was renamed to > /etc/sysctl.conf.dpkg-bak and therefore disabled. This caused some > significant breakage, some of which wasn't apparent until a couple of > days later.
In fact, this rename (a consequence of the removal of the actual conffile) was safe because systemd was no longer reading this file via a symbolic link. Obviously once this symbolic link has been removed, procps could not know that this file was actually used (via such a symbolic link). It was actually systemd that introduced the breakage while /etc/sysctl.conf was still existing on current systems, by removing this symbolic link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1077184 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
