The patch works fine for me after adding light to udev-service-type in my system configuration, as suggested in the manual, like so: (simple-service 'light-udev-rules udev-service-type (list light)) -- Amin Bandali Free Software activist | GNU maintainer & webmaster GPG: BE62 7373 8E61 6D6D 1B3A 08E8 A21A 0202 4881 6103 https://bandali.eu.org