Hi Florian,

It seems to me that the connman.service patch papers over the actual
problem:

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> Apr 13 17:21:29 localhost vmunix: [   56.102520] shepherd[1]: Service uvesafb has been started.
> Apr 13 17:21:33 localhost shepherd[1]: Service dbus-system could not be started. 
> Apr 13 17:21:33 localhost shepherd[1]: Service networking depends on dbus-system. 
> Apr 13 17:21:33 localhost shepherd[1]: Service networking could not be started. 

[...]

> Apr 13 17:21:38 localhost shepherd[1]: Service dbus-system could not be started. 
> Apr 13 17:21:43 localhost shepherd[1]: Service dbus-system could not be started. 
> Apr 13 17:21:43 localhost shepherd[1]: Service wpa-supplicant depends on dbus-system. 
> Apr 13 17:21:43 localhost shepherd[1]: Service wpa-supplicant could not be started. 
> Apr 13 17:21:43 localhost shepherd[1]: Service loopback has been started. 

[...]

> Apr 13 17:21:55 localhost shepherd[1]: Service dbus-system could not be started. 
> Apr 13 17:21:55 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty1 depends on dbus-system. 
> Apr 13 17:21:55 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty1 could not be started. 
> Apr 13 17:21:55 localhost shepherd[1]: Service console-font-tty1 depends on term-tty1. 
> Apr 13 17:21:55 localhost shepherd[1]: Service console-font-tty1 could not be started. 
> Apr 13 17:21:55 localhost shepherd[1]: Service host-name has been started. 

[...]

> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service console-font-tty2 has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service host-name has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty3 has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service console-font-tty3 has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service host-name has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty4 has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service console-font-tty4 has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service host-name has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty5 has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service console-font-tty5 has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service host-name has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty6 has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service console-font-tty6 has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:20 localhost shepherd[1]: Service guix-daemon has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:21 localhost shepherd[1]: Service dbus-system has been started. 
> Apr 13 17:22:21 localhost shepherd[1]: Service term-tty1 has been started. 

In my VM, ‘dbus-system’ starts just fine the first time, but I also
noticed that ‘host-name’ is started before ‘dbus-system’.

So, could you move away the connman.service patch and try instead the
attached patch.  It’ll create /dbus.trace.* files, which should allow us
to see how dbus-daemon stopped.

TIA!

Ludo’.