diff --git a/test/integration/built-store-cross-node.test.ts b/test/integration/built-store-cross-node.test.ts
index b5f2235..9f6cac7 100644
--- a/test/integration/built-store-cross-node.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/built-store-cross-node.test.ts
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ test("a joined node's consumers open the store and broker the mesh built and ado
   // first build finishes. Pushed and WAITED for, because the restart bounces the runtime and an
   // apply in flight retries.
   for (const machine of [CONTROL, NODE]) {
-    await mesh(`push ${machine}`, 600_000);
+    console.log(await mesh(`push ${machine}`, 600_000));
     const deadline = Date.now() + 300_000;
     let trusted = false;
     while (Date.now() < deadline) {
@@ -250,8 +250,15 @@ test("a joined node's consumers open the store and broker the mesh built and ado
       if (/TRUSTED/.test(got.out)) { trusted = true; break; }
       await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 5_000));
     }
+    // A failure here has two distinguishable shapes, so the dump carries both: a declaration that
+    // never named the trust (the controller composed without it — issues 042/048 as a race), and
+    // one that named it and was never applied (delivery or apply). mesh-host's log says which.
     assert.ok(trusted, `${machine}'s runtime never learned the registry trust:\n` +
-      (await on(machine, `cat /etc/docker/daemon.json 2>&1; docker info 2>&1 | tail -20`)).out);
+      (await on(machine, `cat /etc/docker/daemon.json 2>&1; docker info 2>&1 | tail -20`)).out +
+      `\n--- ${machine} mesh-host.log ---\n` +
+      (await on(machine, `tail -60 /var/log/mesh-host.log 2>&1`)).out +
+      `\n--- ${machine} declared registry-trust? ---\n` +
+      (await on(machine, `base64 -d < /var/lib/mesh-host/declared.json 2>/dev/null | grep -c registry-trust; python3 -c "import json,base64; d=json.load(open('/var/lib/mesh-host/declared.json')); print('registry-trust' in base64.b64decode(d['declaration']).decode())" 2>&1`)).out);
   }
 
   // The shared base first — every module with code of its own stands on it.