From: "Stuart Lamble" Subject: Re: Kea 3.2.0 on OpenBSD 7.9 To: "Stuart Henderson" Cc: ports@openbsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:57:07 +1000 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.) > > 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. > > 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.