Re: vmd silently exits (after 7.4 upgrade)

On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 08:28:42AM +0100, Piotr K. Isajew wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm observing this on one of my machines (which I seldom use
> nowadays) after upgrading it to 7.4. The machine had existing
> vm.conf setup which worked for me in the past.
>
> Now "rcctl start vmd" reports:
> vmd(ok)
>
> but just after that executing "vmctl status" gives:
> vmctl: connect: /var/run/vmd.sock: Connection refused
>
> and there is no vmd process running.
>
> When I try to start vmd from command line, it generates some
> output, but it is not really helpful in determining what could be
> the problem:
>
> /usr/sbin/vmd -d -v -v -v -v -v -v -v -v -v -v -v
> vmd: startup
> vmd: vm_register: registering vm 1
> vmd: /etc/vm.conf:18: vm "lindev" registered (disabled)
> vmd: vmd_configure: setting staggered start configuration to parallelism: 4 and delay: 30
> vmd: vmd_configure: starting vms in staggered fashion
> vmd: start_vm_batch: starting batch of 4 vms
> vmd: start_vm_batch: not starting vm lindev (disabled)
> vmd: start_vm_batch: done starting vms
> vmd: vmd: getgrnam

caused by missing _agentx group.

_agentx:*:92:

-ml

> vmd: exiting
> control: config_getconfig: control retrieving config
> control: control exiting, pid 33268
> # priv: config_getconfig: priv retrieving config
> priv: priv exiting, pid 1161
> vmm: config_getconfig: vmm retrieving config
> vmm: vmm exiting, pid 48824
>
>
> dmesg excerpt
> OpenBSD 7.4 (GENERIC.MP) #2: Fri Dec 8 15:39:04 MST 2023
> root@syspatch-74-amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
> cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31225 @ 3.10GHz, 3093.12 MHz, 06-2a-07, patch 0000002f
> cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,NXE,RDTSCP,LONG,LAHF,PERF,ITSC,MD_CLEAR,IBRS,IBPB,STIBP,L1DF,SSBD,SENSOR,ARAT,XSAVEOPT,MELTDOWN
>
> cpu0: using VERW MDS workaround (except on vmm entry)
> vmm0 at mainbus0: VMX/EPT
>