Re: bin/57952 (dhcpcd(8) inexplicably terminated in the night)

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:37:23 +0000
> From: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
> 
> So dhcpcd crashed. As it runs in an empty chroot without the ability
> to create anything it has no means of saving any segfault
> information to the best of my knowledge.

Could dhcpcd sprout an option to enable core dumps or something, or is
there an easy way to do that out of the box already?

> I'll see if manually tripping the above condition causes an error or
> not and try to fix it.
> 
> Bit busy until after the weekend, so hopefully I'll have something
> next week.

Thanks!  This particular failure mode may not be urgent, but dhcpcd's
silent exit without diagnostics makes it hard to figure out what's
going on -- especially for largely-unattended network appliances.