On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 06:45:13PM +0200, Alex Rnne Petersen wrote: > 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?
Given the specific daemons you've listed, your swap file is probably not active when those are started by rc. Have a look at the ordering in /etc/rc.
