A possible workaround is putting "sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf" in /etc/rc.local, which is ridiculous and doesn't even solve the problem that networking and bridges are started *before* the sysctl settings are applied.
It is even more ridiculous that this bug hasn't had any attention from anyone except affected users in over five years. *Every* piece of documentation regarding any kind of sysctl setting refers to /etc/sysctl.conf as the place to put everything. And for over five years there has been a really good chance that most of /etc/sysctl.conf gets ignored because Ubuntu's boot process apparently doesn't know how when and often to read and apply the settings in there. This isn't just an upstart problem since upstart wasn't even around in 2006. Bugs like this make it really difficult to recommend Ubuntu as a server operating system and I wonder if Canonical really use Ubuntu as their server OS. If they did it seems this bug would have been fixed years ago. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50093 Title: Some sysctl's are ignored on boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/+bug/50093/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
