Public bug reported: systemd-sysctl in Xenial forces itself over procps by shipping a link for procps.service to systemd-sysctl.service. However, it does not obey the order both of the files and also of the sysctls within the files. Instead it uses a simple hashmap. As it turns out that's fixed upstream and systemd master uses an ordered hashmap because of this, which at least preserves order within single files. Traditionally files in sysctl.d have been prefixed with numbers to ensure an order and that's now completely non-deterministic on Xenial.
Relevant upstream commit: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/886cf982d3018f7451f0548dadbc05bd2d583bb6 Note that conf_files_list_nulstr in master sorts the configuration files using strcmp, so even order of configuration files should be obeyed. ** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1718444 Title: systemd-sysctl in Xenial is not obeying the order of the sysctls To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1718444/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs