(In reply to Neil Brown from comment #18) > Sorry about this. I hadn't imagined the modprobe.d file being installed > somewhere that sysctl didn't exist. > One option might be to blacklist the file from the initramfs. > However it is probably easier to make the scriptlet safe. > > install sunrpc /sbin/modprobe .... && { /sbin/sysctl .... ; exit 0 ; } > > seems to work. I'll submit an update. I gave this a try but it didn't fix the problem for me.