Subject: bug#34580: Service ssh-daemon could not be started

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:11:20 +0200

"Brant Gardner" <[email-masked]> 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’.