diff --git a/gateway/host_attach.py b/gateway/host_attach.py
index 98083b0e7a..89b51943c4 100644
--- a/gateway/host_attach.py
+++ b/gateway/host_attach.py
@@ -312,6 +312,10 @@ def decide(our_home: Path, *, replace: bool = False) -> HostAttachDecision:
         # here exits 78, which every supervisor treats as permanent — on a launchd fleet that parked
         # every unit but the first to claim the host lock. Start beside it; the host-lock claim logs
         # the topology and the `gateway migrate --multiplex` path stays the way to converge.
+        logger.warning(
+            "Another profile's standalone gateway owns this host (%s); starting profile '%s' beside it. "
+            "Fold every profile onto one gateway with: hermes gateway migrate --multiplex",
+            attached.describe(), profile)
         return HostAttachDecision(START, "")
     if not gateway.served_known:
         # The owner never answered, so we know only that it exists. ATTACH here (on the record's
diff --git a/hermes_cli/gateway.py b/hermes_cli/gateway.py
index 07304c2213..0a9af29e0c 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/gateway.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/gateway.py
@@ -3797,7 +3797,12 @@ def _attach_to_host_gateway_or_guard(force: bool = False, replace: bool = False)
     if decision is not None and decision.outcome in (ATTACH, REFUSE):
         print(decision.message)
         if decision.outcome == REFUSE:
-            sys.exit(_host_decision_exit_code(decision))
+            code = _host_decision_exit_code(decision)
+            # stdout goes to the supervisor's unit log; under launchd a permanent refusal is then
+            # mapped to a clean exit and the unit is parked. The profile's own logs (errors.log,
+            # WARNING+) are where a parked fleet is diagnosed, so name the verdict and the remedy there.
+            logger.warning("gateway run refused (exit %d): %s", code, decision.message)
+            sys.exit(code)
         if _running_under_gateway_supervisor():
             sys.exit(_host_decision_exit_code(decision))
         sys.exit(0)
diff --git a/tests/gateway/test_host_attach_lifecycle.py b/tests/gateway/test_host_attach_lifecycle.py
index 67c4fe38c3..7c526bdfdf 100644
--- a/tests/gateway/test_host_attach_lifecycle.py
+++ b/tests/gateway/test_host_attach_lifecycle.py
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ def test_host_gateway_refuses_when_it_will_not_serve_the_profile(tmp_path, monke
     assert asyncio.run(gateway_run._host_attach_or_none(replace=False)) is False
 
 
-def test_a_standalone_owner_is_the_per_profile_topology_not_a_refusal(tmp_path, monkeypatch, owner_pid):
+def test_a_standalone_owner_is_the_per_profile_topology_not_a_refusal(tmp_path, monkeypatch, owner_pid, caplog):
     """The owner answers ``multiplex: False``: it is a per-profile gateway, not a multiplexer that
     excluded us. Refusing here (exit 78 → launchd parks the unit) took every other profile's
     supervised gateway down at boot on a one-process-per-profile fleet. Start as before."""
@@ -159,7 +159,9 @@ def test_a_standalone_owner_is_the_per_profile_topology_not_a_refusal(tmp_path,
     monkeypatch.setattr("gateway.control_socket.rescan_gateway_profiles",
                         lambda home, timeout=8.0: {"multiplex": False, "served_profiles": ["tank"]})
 
-    assert host_attach.decide(tmp_path / "root" / "profiles" / "nous").outcome == host_attach.START
+    with caplog.at_level("WARNING", logger="gateway.host_attach"):
+        assert host_attach.decide(tmp_path / "root" / "profiles" / "nous").outcome == host_attach.START
+    assert any("migrate --multiplex" in r.getMessage() for r in caplog.records), "the converge hint is logged"
     assert asyncio.run(gateway_run._host_attach_or_none(replace=False)) is None
 
 
diff --git a/tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_host_verbs.py b/tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_host_verbs.py
index 2ec0feb886..aba25a93dc 100644
--- a/tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_host_verbs.py
+++ b/tests/hermes_cli/test_gateway_host_verbs.py
@@ -170,6 +170,23 @@ def test_a_supervised_attach_is_retried_not_parked(monkeypatch, capsys):
     assert exc.value.code != gw.GATEWAY_FATAL_CONFIG_EXIT_CODE
 
 
+def test_a_refusal_lands_in_the_profile_logs_not_only_on_stdout(monkeypatch, caplog):
+    """The refusal's stdout goes to the supervisor's unit log; launchd then maps 78 to a clean exit and
+    parks the unit. Nothing in the profile's own logs said why (field report on #118097)."""
+    owner = host_attach.HostGateway(4321, Path("/somewhere"), ("default",))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "gateway.host_attach.decide",
+        lambda home, replace=False: host_attach.HostAttachDecision(
+            host_attach.REFUSE, host_attach._refuse_message(owner, "nous"), owner))
+
+    with caplog.at_level("WARNING", logger="hermes_cli.gateway"), pytest.raises(SystemExit) as exc:
+        gw._attach_to_host_gateway_or_guard(force=False)
+
+    assert exc.value.code == gw.GATEWAY_FATAL_CONFIG_EXIT_CODE
+    warned = [r for r in caplog.records if r.levelno >= 30 and "migrate --multiplex" in r.getMessage()]
+    assert warned, "a refusal must leave the remedy in the profile's own log"
+
+
 def test_replace_is_not_eaten_by_the_cli_guard(monkeypatch):
     """The guard exited before ``start_gateway`` ever saw ``--replace``, so nothing was replaced."""
     owner = host_attach.HostGateway(4321, Path("/somewhere"), ("default", "other"))