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I have just run zypper up on a openSUSE 15.6 computer and the installation of the new kernel says dracut-install error: /sbin/sysctl is pointing to itself and indeed this symbolic link is a loop:

king:~ # l /sbin/sysctl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 21 15:59 /sbin/sysctl -> /sbin/sysctl ~> uname -a Linux king 6.4.0-150600.23.50-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri May 9 22:09:52 UTC 2025 (dee422c) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

(I have two other openSUSE 15.6 computers where /sbin/sysctl is a elf 64-bit binary of Feb 21 same timestamp which is 27288 bytes in size). Do I need to repair this? by copying the binaries?

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  • Can you first explain what l is an alias/function for? Commented Jun 12 at 17:02

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In reply to @tlink, l is an alias to ls -alF.

However, /sbin/sysctl should be an actual executable file.

As it is part of procps, you should run rpm -qfi /sbin/sysctl to confirm this, just in case another package has overwritten it.

Once done, run zypper --force in procps which should reinstall the package & correct any errors.

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