On Mon, Sep 21, 2026, at 19:31, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2026/09/21 16:06, Stuart Lamble wrote:
>>  - Shutting down. Per Stuart Henderson's comments a couple of weeks ago, I have tested to see what happens. If I initiate the shutdown fairly soon after the server starts, it shuts down cleanly, no problem. If I wait a little bit, it seems to sit there. For my purposes, this is good enough, but it's not really acceptable for general release. (Logging is fine.)
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> that's better than it was when I last tried updating things - it was
> sitting there even when shutdown soon after start.

I’ve dug into it a little bit. It’s looking like a race condition/deadlock, and I don’t have the C++ knowledge to try to figure it out quickly. I can try, but finding both the time and the inclination to work on it is going to be difficult for me for the next few months.

>>  - /var/lib vs /var/db (per Antoine's comments.) It looks like Kea is now putting everything into /usr/local/var/db/kea. I'm not sure if that would be considered acceptable or not. (It looks wrong, but isn't seriously offensive to me in the way that putting it in, say, /etc would be.)
>>  - Currently, configuration files are looked for in /usr/local/etc/kea by default. This only really affects keactrl; the keactrl config file can easily point at different locations for the actual DHCP server configuration.
>>  - Runtime sockets currently have to go into /usr/local/var/run/kea.
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> those are both wrong for OpenBSD, but probably quite easily fixable.

I thought as much.

> seems like it might be a good point to send out the diff?

I’ll dig into the easy problems, find a solution, then send out the patches once the solution is verified. Aiming to just have the shutdown problem left when I do.

Hopefully in the next couple of days.