Comment 4 for bug 1241376

When upgrading procps from 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6 to 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.2, the upgrade fails with the errors similar to the ones reported above:

timur@test:~$ sudo apt-get install procps=1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
procps is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-3.2.0-51 linux-image-3.2.0-51-virtual linux-headers-3.2.0-51-virtual
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up procps (1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.2) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript procps, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing procps (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 procps
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Looking at the upstart logs from procps, the error is:

error: "Invalid argument" setting key "net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl"

The actual entry in /etc/sysctl.d is:
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl = 10<EOF>

If I place a newline before the <EOF> in the file, the script parses it correctly. If other reported cases are similar, then I'm guessing the bug is not in this package.