diff --git a/tests/kolainst/destructive/state-overlays b/tests/kolainst/destructive/state-overlays
index c2aac0d1c5..0d613f0fc0 100755
--- a/tests/kolainst/destructive/state-overlays
+++ b/tests/kolainst/destructive/state-overlays
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ Before=kola-runext.service
 
 [Service]
 Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=ls -l /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d
+ExecStart=grep -nr /usr/local /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d
 # I previously used rsync here to sync all of /var/usrlocal, but hit SELinux
 # issues; it seems like it runs as rsync_t which can't do things on top of
 # overlay? To investigate...