Bug: Cannot run llamafile on OpenBSD: syntax error: NUL byte unexpected

Author: codesoapCreated Oct 21, 2025Updated Jul 16, 2026

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What happened?

I downloaded a llamafile on OpenBSD 7.7 (amd64) and tried to run it. It did not run:

bash

$ wget https://huggingface.co/Mozilla/gemma-3-1b-it-llamafile/resolve/main/google_gemma-3-1b-it-Q6_K.llamafile
$ chmod +x google_gemma-3-1b-it-Q6_K.llamafile
$ ./google_gemma-3-1b-it-Q6_K.llamafile
./google_gemma-3-1b-it-Q6_K.llamafile[3]: syntax error: NUL byte unexpected

Version

Unknown:

bash

$ ./google_gemma-3-1b-it-Q6_K.llamafile --version
./google_gemma-3-1b-it-Q6_K.llamafile[3]: syntax error: NUL byte unexpected

What operating system are you seeing the problem on?

OpenBSD

Source: mozilla-ai/llamafile

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