Okay, my apologies for the delay - a few days later I did "git pull" and then all the same steps and now it compiles & makes without issue. I activated the new configuration & rebooted. ssh-daemon failed to start and the log showed up, so I *think* we caught it. The log is attached, I hope this helps! -- Brant Gardner On Sat, Sep 28, 2019, at 09:11, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > "Brant Gardner" skribis: > > > Okay, I did those steps exactly: > > > > - clone > > - patch -p1 < your-patch > > - ./bootstrap > > - ./configure --localstatedir=/var > > - make check > > - sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure /path/to/myconfig.scm > > - reboot > > > > I had no issues or errors at any step and on reboot ssh-daemon tried & failed to start so all went according to plan, but /tmp does *not* have a ssh log file in it. > > > > Not sure where this went sideways, any advice? > > Does the PID that ‘herd status ssh-daemon’ reports (under “Running > value”) correspond to ‘strace’? > > BTW, it may be that the problem will show up less frequently because > sshd starts more slowly when running under ‘strace’. That’s the hard > part with timing-related bugs… > > Thanks for testing! > > Ludo’. >