Public bug reported:

This might be considered a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/771372 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/690433, both of which are marked as
fixed (and have long histories).

I have /etc/sysctl.d/60-conntrack.conf as follows:
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_max=131072
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_established=600
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_sctp_timeout_established=600

With both current distros of procps from quantal and precise
repositories, my overrides to netfilter conntrack defaults are NOT
applied at system boot time. My syntax is correct because I can
successfully apply the changes with explicit sysctl commands.

I found https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869779 very helpful.
I have circumvented the problem on my systems by adding "service procps
restart" to my (empty by default) /etc/rc.local file.

It seems to me the upstart "static network up" event is still too early
in the boot process and the netfilter branch of the proc tree has not
yet been created. I fiddled around with the start clause of procps,
waiting for specific interfaces to come up, but that made no difference.
Perhaps a new event is required?

However, following the discussions in the 2 bugs above, and also
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50093, there seems to be something
inadequate in the architecture. Surely it isn't right to be running
procps later to modify some branches while it needs to be run early for
others? Maybe the upstart script for procps needs to use different (and
new?) upstart events to process subsets of the /etc/sysctl.d/ conf
files?

** Affects: procps (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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