Bug#819314: procps: [sysctl] Missing dependency when used with systemd

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:03:24 +0100 Martin Mares <mj at ucw.cz> wrote:
> Package: procps
> Version: 2:3.3.9-9
> Severity: normal
> 
> With sysvinit, the init script for procps ensures that sysctl's
> are set before networking is started (via X-Start-Before: $network).
> 
> When run with systemd, procps.service does not have such dependency.
> Since system startup is highly parallel, there is a race condition:
> sometimes network interfaces are initialized before net.ipv6.conf.default.*
> is set.
> 

Are you sure?
networking.service has
> After=local-fs.target network-pre.target apparmor.service systemd-sysctl.service

This makes sure that networking.service, which deals with type auto
interfaces, is started after systemd-sysctl.service.

And for hotplugged devices

/lib/udev/rules.d/99-systemd.rules contains
> 99-systemd.rules:# Apply sysctl variables to network devices (and only to those) as they appear.
> 99-systemd.rules:ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL!="lo", RUN+="/lib/systemd/systemd-sysctl --prefix=/net/ipv4/conf/$name --prefix=/net/ipv4/neigh/$name --prefix=/net/ipv6/conf/$name --prefix=/net/ipv6/neigh/$name"

Can you explain the specific problem you ran into and what configuration
you are using exactly.


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