diff --git a/test/TEST-34-DYNAMICUSERMIGRATE/test.sh b/test/TEST-34-DYNAMICUSERMIGRATE/test.sh
index 5acc57363e..4e8836648a 100755
--- a/test/TEST-34-DYNAMICUSERMIGRATE/test.sh
+++ b/test/TEST-34-DYNAMICUSERMIGRATE/test.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 set -e
 
 TEST_DESCRIPTION="test migrating state directory from DynamicUser=1 to DynamicUser=0 and back"
+# Certain subtests run with DynamicUser=true which makes writing the gcov
+# artifacts impossible. As $GCOV_PREFIX and friends seem to be ineffective
+# in this situation, let's simply ignore all gcov complaints for the whole
+# test to make it happy.
+IGNORE_MISSING_COVERAGE=yes
 
 # shellcheck source=test/test-functions
 . "${TEST_BASE_DIR:?}/test-functions"
diff --git a/test/test-shutdown.py b/test/test-shutdown.py
index 52207a4656..e181f976be 100755
--- a/test/test-shutdown.py
+++ b/test/test-shutdown.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def run(args):
     except Exception as e:
         logger.error(e)
         logger.info("killing child pid %d", console.pid)
-        console.terminate()
+        console.terminate(force=True)
 
     return ret
 
diff --git a/test/units/testsuite-34.sh b/test/units/testsuite-34.sh
index beaf3ba31e..2172f7434b 100755
--- a/test/units/testsuite-34.sh
+++ b/test/units/testsuite-34.sh
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ test_check_writable() {
         rm -rf "/var/lib/$i" "/var/lib/private/$i"
     done
 
-    cat >/run/systemd/system/testservice-34-check-writable.service <<EOF
+    cat >/run/systemd/system/testservice-34-check-writable.service <<\EOF
 [Unit]
 Description=Check writable directories when DynamicUser= with StateDirectory=
 
@@ -133,18 +133,18 @@ ExecStart=bash -c ' \
     set -eux; \
     set -o pipefail; \
     declare -a writable_dirs; \
-    readarray -t writable_dirs < <(find / \\( -path /var/tmp -o -path /tmp -o -path /proc -o -path /dev/mqueue -o -path /dev/shm -o \
-                                              -path /sys/fs/bpf -o -path /dev/.lxc -o -path /sys/devices/system/cpu \\) \
+    readarray -t writable_dirs < <(find / \( -path /var/tmp -o -path /tmp -o -path /proc -o -path /dev/mqueue -o -path /dev/shm -o \
+                                              -path /sys/fs/bpf -o -path /dev/.lxc -o -path /sys/devices/system/cpu \) \
                                    -prune -o -type d -writable -print 2>/dev/null | sort -u); \
-    [[ "\$\${#writable_dirs[@]}" == "8" ]]; \
-    [[ "\$\${writable_dirs[0]}" == "/var/lib/private/aaa" ]]; \
-    [[ "\$\${writable_dirs[1]}" == "/var/lib/private/aaa/bbb" ]]; \
-    [[ "\$\${writable_dirs[2]}" == "/var/lib/private/aaa/ccc" ]]; \
-    [[ "\$\${writable_dirs[3]}" == "/var/lib/private/quux/pief" ]]; \
-    [[ "\$\${writable_dirs[4]}" == "/var/lib/private/waldo" ]]; \
-    [[ "\$\${writable_dirs[5]}" == "/var/lib/private/xxx" ]]; \
-    [[ "\$\${writable_dirs[6]}" == "/var/lib/private/xxx/yyy" ]]; \
-    [[ "\$\${writable_dirs[7]}" == "/var/lib/private/xxx/zzz" ]]; \
+    [[ "$${#writable_dirs[@]}" == "8" ]]; \
+    [[ "$${writable_dirs[0]}" == "/var/lib/private/aaa" ]]; \
+    [[ "$${writable_dirs[1]}" == "/var/lib/private/aaa/bbb" ]]; \
+    [[ "$${writable_dirs[2]}" == "/var/lib/private/aaa/ccc" ]]; \
+    [[ "$${writable_dirs[3]}" == "/var/lib/private/quux/pief" ]]; \
+    [[ "$${writable_dirs[4]}" == "/var/lib/private/waldo" ]]; \
+    [[ "$${writable_dirs[5]}" == "/var/lib/private/xxx" ]]; \
+    [[ "$${writable_dirs[6]}" == "/var/lib/private/xxx/yyy" ]]; \
+    [[ "$${writable_dirs[7]}" == "/var/lib/private/xxx/zzz" ]]; \
 '
 EOF
     systemctl daemon-reload