Upgrade of procps disables net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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procps (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Expected behavior:
Settings in /etc/sysctl.conf won't be changed by an upgrade or there will be a prompt if the original file should be overwritten.
What happened:
After performing an upgrade of package procps IPv4Forwarding was disabled in /etc/sysctl.conf without asking:
# Uncomment the next line to enable packet forwarding for IPv4
#net.ipv4.
I was able to reproduce this behavior by using unattended-upgrades and also by upgrading manually (apt-get upgrade)
My system:
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04
apt-cache policy procps
procps:
Installed: 2:3.3.12-3ubuntu1.1
Candidate: 2:3.3.12-3ubuntu1.1
Version table:
*** 2:3.3.12-3ubuntu1.1 500
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
2:
500 http://
description: | updated |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.