Hi Ludo, > Indeed. This is fixed by Shepherd commit > d97592f58603ff51cb280ae57d413c8731e601b3, which will be in the upcoming > 0.9.3 release. I’m on 0.9.3 and it works fine with `herd restart` now. But ssh-daemon has the same issue when being restarted by unattended-upgrades (which is fatal, because unable to use SSH I have to restart the entire box): ---snip--- shepherd: Service nginx has been stopped. shepherd: Service nginx has been started. shepherd: Service collectd has been stopped. shepherd: Service collectd has been started. shepherd: Service ntpd has been stopped. shepherd: Service ntpd has been started. shepherd: Service guix-publish has been stopped. shepherd: Service guix-publish has been started. shepherd: Service ssh-daemon has been stopped. Backtrace: 7 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/ip5m1n8kb6p0rfglzpkk17k060a?") In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 724:2 6 (call-with-prompt ("prompt") # ?) 1752:10 5 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) In ice-9/eval.scm: 619:8 4 (_ #(#(#))) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 260:13 3 (for-each # _) In gnu/services/herd.scm: 168:4 2 (invoke-action ssh-daemon restart () #) 176:7 1 (failure) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1685:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: ERROR: 1. &action-exception-error: service: ssh-daemon action: start key: system-error args: ("bind" "~A" ("Address already in use") (98) ---snap--- Maybe I can strace herd and see what happens exactly. Thanks, Lars -- Lars-Dominik Braun Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Research Associate www.leibniz-psychology.org ZPID - Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie / ZPID - Leibniz Institute for Psychology Universitätsring 15 D-54296 Trier - Germany Tel.: +49–651–201-4964