SysFS.conf and sysfs.d behavior change in Debian 13/PVE 9?

[SInisterPisces]

Hello,

I know I read somewhere that PVE 9/Debian 13 changed the behavior of the /etc/sysfs.conf file and /etc/sysfs.d directory--something to the effect that user changes now must be made in text files inside the sysfs.d directory.

Did I hallucinate someone mentioning that here on the forum? I can't find it, but mostly because the search engine won't let me search for "sysfs.d" as a term.

I've run into this, I think.
I've got a file in /etc/sysfs.d that sets up Intel iGPU VFs, but under PVE9/Debian 13, it doesn't get read in and used on boot unless the /etc/sysfs.conf file exists.
And just putting my commands directly in /etc/sysfs.conf no longer seems to work.

 

[leesteken]

Did I hallucinate someone mentioning that here on the forum? I can't find it, but mostly because the search engine won't let me search for "sysfs.d" as a term.

It happened: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/h...rmanent-to-0-on-proxmox-9.171307/#post-798176 and https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/2-warnings-in-pve8to9-check.169351/post-789613

 

[SInisterPisces]

Thanks, @leesteken !

I'm going to open a bug report on this. From reading the docs, I don't think you're supposed to need an empty /etc/sysfs.conf file for the files in /etc/sysfs.d to be read and executed.

 

[leesteken]

From reading the docs, I don't think you're supposed to need an empty /etc/sysfs.conf file for the files in /etc/sysfs.d to be read and executed.

Sorry, I read /etc/sysctl.conf but you wrote /etc/sysfs.conf. I don't have a /etc/sysfs.conf or /etc/sysfs.d/ and my Proxmox works fine. I' m not sure what your bug actually is.

I also don't have a /etc/sysctl.conf file anymore (empty or otherwise) since it was renamed by the upgrade to PVE 9 (and deleted by me) and it works fine (with a /etc/sysctl.d/71-local.conf) as pve8to9 --full explained to me.

EDIT: Sorry for confusing the issue by misreading the filename.

 

[SInisterPisces]

Sorry, I read /etc/sysctl.conf but you wrote /etc/sysfs.conf. I don't have a /etc/sysfs.conf or /etc/sysfs.d/ and my Proxmox works fine. I' m not sure what your bug actually is.

I also don't have a /etc/sysctl.conf file anymore (empty or otherwise) since it was renamed by the upgrade to PVE 9 (and deleted by me) and it works fine (with a /etc/sysctl.d/71-local.conf) as pve8to9 --full explained to me.

Oof. I didn't notice the difference, either. Those files are a bit confusingly named.

I'm definitely looking at sysfs.conf and /etc/sysfs.d/*.conf, not the sysctl.conf file--I don't ever touch the latter one.

 

[SInisterPisces]

Bug report: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6770