Bug#1118590: systemd: Updating changes with sysctl -p fails to find the the sysctl.conf file

[Chris Street]

Package: systemd
Version: 257.8-1~deb13u2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: m0pge.m at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

Installation of a basic debian 13.1 system. The /etc/sysctl.conf file location has moved to /etc/sysctl.d/sysctl.conf

Updating the /etc/sysctl.d/sysctl.conf file to add ipv4 routing.
To reread the file and update the kernle I would expect to execute

sysctl -p

When run, this looks for the file at the old location, ie /etc/sysctl.conf and fails to find it and then reports the error and stops

It can be trivially fixed by linking from the /etc folder

ln -s /etc/sysctl.d/sysctl.conf


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  libacl1            2.3.2-2+b1
ii  libapparmor1       4.1.0-1
ii  libc6              2.41-12
ii  libmount1          2.41-5
ii  libpam0g           1.7.0-5
ii  libseccomp2        2.6.0-2
ii  libselinux1        3.8.1-1
ii  libssl3t64         3.5.1-1+deb13u1
ii  libsystemd-shared  257.8-1~deb13u2
ii  libsystemd0        257.8-1~deb13u2
ii  mount              2.41-5

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]   1.16.2-2
ii  linux-sysctl-defaults            4.12
ii  systemd-cryptsetup               257.8-1~deb13u2
ii  systemd-timesyncd [time-daemon]  257.8-1~deb13u2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  libtss2-tcti-device0  <none>
pn  polkitd               <none>
pn  systemd-boot          <none>
pn  systemd-container     <none>
pn  systemd-homed         <none>
pn  systemd-repart        <none>
pn  systemd-resolved      <none>
pn  systemd-userdbd       <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
ii  dbus-user-session  1.16.2-2
pn  dracut             <none>
ii  initramfs-tools    0.148.3
ii  libnss-systemd     257.8-1~deb13u2
ii  libpam-systemd     257.8-1~deb13u2
ii  udev               257.8-1~deb13u2

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