I'll cheerfully do the experiment, but I don't know how - can you direct me for how to add strace where you need it to a booting system? -- Brant Gardner On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, at 03:08, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Brant, > > "Brant Gardner" skribis: > > > The most useful thing I could find in the logs: > > > > Sep 19 15:30:46 localhost sshd[261]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. > > Sep 19 15:31:19 localhost shepherd[1]: Service ssh-daemon could not be started. > > Sep 19 15:39:58 localhost sshd[585]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. > > Sep 19 15:39:58 localhost sshd[585]: Server listening on :: port 22. > > Sep 19 15:39:59 localhost shepherd[1]: Service ssh-daemon has been started. > > As I witnessed before, it looks as though ‘sshd’ initially hanged while > trying to bind on the IPv6 address. > > So I wonder if we’re just sometimes starting sshd a bit too early > wrt. to some IPv6 networking initialization, or something. It’d be > great to have the strace output when that happens. > > Thanks, > Ludo’. >