OpenSSH fails to start on RHEL 8.9

[bdurant]

The following is emitted at the console in a continuous loop when using dracut-sshd on RHEL 8.9 (it works fine on RHEL 8.2):

[ OK ] Stopped OpenSSH server daemon.
Starting OpenSSH server daemon...
[ 3085.684495] systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenSSH server daemon.
[FAILED] Failed to start OpenSSH server daemon.
See 'systemctl status sshd.service' for details.
[ OK ] Stopped OpenSSH server daemon.
Starting OpenSSH server daemon...
[ 3127.934681] systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenSSH server daemon.
[FAILED] Failed to start OpenSSH server daemon.
See 'systemctl status sshd.service' for details.
[ OK ] Stopped OpenSSH server daemon.
Starting OpenSSH server daemon...

[bdurant]

Any ideas on how to resolve that problem?

[gsauthof]

Thank you for the report. I would try to reproduce the issue in a VM and if this is reproducible also take a look at the sshd logs.

See also the last point under: https://github.com/gsauthof/dracut-sshd?tab=readme-ov-file#faq

[bdurant]

The issue was pilot error i.e. my problem.