Hi Brand, "Brant Gardner" skribis: > 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? You could try something like the patch below. When ‘ssh-daemon’ fails to start, you’ll have to make sure to grab /tmp/ssh.log. I’ve just experienced it on a headless machine so I sympathize all the more now… HTH! Ludo’.