On Wed, Sep 9, 2026, at 18:27, Nick Owens wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >Synopsis: Network daemons sporadically fail during boot in arm64 VM >> >Category: system >> >Environment: >> System : OpenBSD 7.9 >> Details : OpenBSD 7.9 (GENERIC.MP) #8: Fri Aug 21 13:35:08 MDT >> 2026 >> >> [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/arm64/compile/GENERIC.MP >> >> Architecture: OpenBSD.arm64 >> Machine : arm64 >> >Description: >> We (Zig) recently acquired an AmpereOne A192-32X machine to self-host >> and cover all our arm64 CI needs. OpenBSD is of course one of the >> platforms we would like to test on arm64. Unfortunately, we are >> facing >> an issue where, in the VM we created for OpenBSD, the basic network >> daemons will sporadically fail during boot for no apparent reason. >> >> The affected daemons are (at least) dhcpleased, ntpd, resolvd, and >> slaacd. Sometimes only a subset will fail, sometimes all, sometimes >> none. All I can tell is that they seem to be getting killed during >> rc, >> likely by the kernel. The only indication of this that I see is >> "Killed" >> messages in the console, but even these don't always appear when the >> issue happens. There also does not appear to be anything relevant in >> any >> /var/log file. When it happens, I can rcctl start the failed daemons >> from the console, and things appear fine from there. > > this sounds a bit like > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178407511210176&w=2 - are you sure > swap is on, or is it off?
The symptoms described there do match my experience exactly, however, swap is definitely on and defined correctly in /etc/fstab. But as noted, it's a swap *file* rather than partition, so perhaps that matters?
