Re: Warning about dhcpcd-10.5.0 with arm

[Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>]

On 12.08.2026 12:58, Adolf Belka wrote:
> Hi All,

Hi Adolf,

see comments below... ;-)

> Some information. I have a RPi with Arch Linux installed on it which I 
> use as my dhcp server on my orange network.
> 
> The Arch Linux ARM group are separate from Arch Linux. They had not done 
> an update to 10.4.x so I was still on 10.3.2.
> 
> I ran an update and they updated dhcpcd to 10.5.0
> 
> After the update dhcpcd failed to start and the logs showed it was 
> having a core dump when trying to start.
> 
> I downgraded to 10.2.3 and everything worked fine, Upgraded to 10.5.0 
> again and it had the core dump again and downgrading again made it work.
> 
> So on my arm based rpi with arch linux I am staying with 10.3.2 for the 
> moment.
> 
> It would probably be worth testing the 10.5.0 version on an arm IPFire 
> to see if it is a general issue or only for some hardware/os combinations.

I compiled and pushed dhcpcd 10.5.0 a few days ago and got it running
since then on Core 203 (x86_64). No seen problems so far - its running
now for 5 days 17 hours 6 minutes (watched by 'monit').

...
root@ipfire: / # dhcpcd --version
dhcpcd 10.5.0
Copyright (c) 2006-2025 Roy Marples
Compiled in features: INET ARP ARPing IPv4LL INET6 DHCPv6 AUTH PRIVSEP
...

You can find it here:
=>
https://git.ipfire.org/?p=people/mfischer/ipfire-2.x.git;a=commit;h=c3df7efed69554c7f83e74c4d3a895cd77045dd4

HTH
Matthias