README.sysctl refers to "service procps reload", which no longer works

Bug #1908241 reported by Pi Delport
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procps (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

/etc/sysctl.d/README.sysctl states:

After making any changes, please run "service procps reload" (or, from
a Debian package maintainer script "deb-systemd-invoke restart procps.service").

However, "service procps reload" no longer works:

$ sudo service procps reload
Usage: /etc/init.d/procps {start|stop|status|restart|try-restart|force-reload}

It looks like the correct command should be "service procps force-reload"?

Local versions:

Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
procps 2:3.3.16-1ubuntu2

Tags: focal groovy
Pi Delport (pi-delport)
summary: - sysctl.d/README refers to "service procps reload", which no longer works
+ README.sysctl refers to "service procps reload", which no longer works
tags: added: focal
tags: added: groovy
Revision history for this message
Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote :

Forwarded the fix to Debian:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/procps/-/merge_requests/2

It is not a good time to apply it in 21.04, because we are close to the release.

Revision history for this message
Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote :

BTW the reload was added to fix this bug: LP: #1719159.

Changed in procps (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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