diff --git a/bittide-instances/data/openocd/start.sh b/bittide-instances/data/openocd/start.sh
index 9a7fd6293..f390a762e 100755
--- a/bittide-instances/data/openocd/start.sh
+++ b/bittide-instances/data/openocd/start.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Google LLC
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-set -xe
+set -e
 
 # Default stdout to /dev/null
 OPENOCD_STDOUT_LOG="${OPENOCD_STDOUT_LOG:-/dev/null}"
diff --git a/bittide-instances/src/Project/Handle.hs b/bittide-instances/src/Project/Handle.hs
index 6b762a402..81c65cb24 100644
--- a/bittide-instances/src/Project/Handle.hs
+++ b/bittide-instances/src/Project/Handle.hs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ expectLine = expectLine' ""
     let
       byteLine1 = filter (\c -> isAscii c && not (isControl c)) byteLine0
       line = w2c <$> unpack byteLine1
-      trimmed = (\l -> trace ("expectLine: " <> l) l) $ trimEnd line
+      trimmed = trimEnd line
       s1 = s0 <> "\n" <> line
       cont = expectLine' s1 h f
     if null trimmed