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Re: OpenBSD on Digital Ocean

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Post by patzerhacker » Thu, Jul 09, 2015, 1:18 PM UTC

wooger wrote: post #15

chrismsnz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

5.8 is still currently in development/snapshot - not for amateur users. 5.7 is the latest official release. 5.8 is due on Nov 1.

Worth noting though that if you use the release, you get no updates, security or otherwise, till the next release in 6 months. And using -stable (release + patches) is a hassle of manually applying patches and re-compiling - no binary updates are available. If running snapshots is not for amateurs, neither is running stable.

That's not entirely accurate. You do get updates, they're just on the patch branch. See http://www.openbsd.org/errata57.html.

Running -stable is fairly simple. If you don't want to rebuild on your DigitalOcean VPS, cut a new release after an update locally, and then apply it on your VPS. See http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Release. This should be fairly simple to automate (and you could even write a script that only packages up changed files if you were so inclined).

Re: OpenBSD on Digital Ocean

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Post by dougb » Thu, Jul 09, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #2

Okay, I know someone here is trying this... success or failure?

I got it installed, but there were problems. A lot of programs fail with SIGILL, illegal instruction. OpenSSL fails in OPENSSL_ia32_cpuid() Anybody get past this ?

Re: OpenBSD on Digital Ocean

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Post by geographomics » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 8:01 PM UTC

dougb wrote: post #22

jlgaddis wrote: post #2

Okay, I know someone here is trying this... success or failure?

I got it installed, but there were problems. A lot of programs fail with SIGILL, illegal instruction. OpenSSL fails in OPENSSL_ia32_cpuid() Anybody get past this ?

I also get coredumps from openssl, ssh-keygen, and smtpctl on the first boot. The common factor for all of these is the XGETBV instruction - unfortunately it looks like DigitalOcean's setup of KVM doesn't support it.

This was just on amd64 though - installing OpenBSD for i386 seems to work okay, apart from sometimes hanging on boot (not sure why this is).