Comment 24 for bug 771372

@James, the following upstart job that you suggested fixes the issue on Lucid. Would that be possible to have it include in the next update ? Thanks.

# procps - set sysctls from /etc/sysctl.conf
#
# This task sets kernel sysctl variables from /etc/sysctl.conf and
# /etc/sysctl.d

description "set sysctls from /etc/sysctl.conf"

instance $UPSTART_EVENTS
env UPSTART_EVENTS=

start on virtual-filesystems or stopped networking

task
script
    cat /etc/sysctl.d/*.conf /etc/sysctl.conf | sysctl -p -
end script