Hi This morning I started my GuixSD VM as usual. Openssh server was not running even though it was enabled and should have been respawned. Hmm. Lucky for me SSH is not the only way into this system... From the host I got: $ ssh  sdb@localhost -p10022 ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer On the guest: $ grep -3 "ssh-daemon could not /var/log/messages Nov  7 07:19:30 localhost vmunix: [    0.366701] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Nov  7 07:19:30 localhost vmunix: [    0.367764] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled Nov  7 07:19:30 localhost vmunix: [    0.368569] pnp: PnP ACPI init Nov  7 07:19:31 localhost shepherd[1]: Service ssh-daemon could not be started. Nov  7 07:19:31 localhost vmunix: [    0.370291] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 6 devices Nov  7 07:19:31 localhost vmunix: [    0.378960] clocksource: acpi_pm: mask: 0xffffff max_cycles: 0xffffff, max_idle_ns: 2085701024 ns Nov  7 07:19:31 localhost vmunix: [    0.380434] NET: Registered protocol family 2 Herd said: $ cat sshd-stopped Status of ssh-daemon:   It is stopped.   It is enabled.   Provides (ssh-daemon).   Requires (syslogd).   Conflicts with ().   Will be respawned.               <-- not true! Starting it yielded: $ cat sshd-start Service ssh-daemon has been started. How do I increase the verbosity of shepherd? I did not find anything about that in the shepherd manual . Is there a way to debug further? -- Cheers Swedebugia PS $ guix --version guix (GNU Guix) 1f44934fb6e2cefccbecd4fa347025349fa9ff76 (=0.15