Q: console messages booting debian-10 (switch_root: failed to mount moving /dev to /sysroot/dev: Invalid argument)

[Ulrich Windl]

Hi!

Looking at the boot messages on console for debuan-10, I see these:

...
Waiting for /dev/xvda* devices...
Qubes: Doing R/W setup for TemplateVM...
[ 1.279270] xvdc: xvdc1 xvdc3
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1024 MiB (1073737728 bytes)
no label, UUID=924589a7-5fee-4ed3-a7b2-fa46cbf7fcde
Qubes: done.
[ 1.309503] EXT4-fs (xvda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data
mode. Opts: (null)
Waiting for /dev/xvdd device...
mount: /dev/xvdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
[ 1.317358] EXT4-fs (xvdd): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4
subsystem
[ 1.323196] EXT4-fs (xvdd): mounted filesystem with ordered data
mode. Opts: (null)
[ 1.568749] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles:
0x733fdf79392, max_idle_ns: 881590829533 ns
[ 2.202412] EXT4-fs (xvda3): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
switch_root: failed to mount moving /dev to /sysroot/dev: Invalid argument
switch_root: forcing unmount of /dev
switch_root: failed to mount moving /proc to /sysroot/proc: Invalid argument
switch_root: forcing unmount of /proc
switch_root: failed to mount moving /sys to /sysroot/sys: Invalid argument
switch_root: forcing unmount of /sys
switch_root: failed to mount moving /run to /sysroot/run: Invalid argument
switch_root: forcing unmount of /run
[ 2.323383] systemd[1]: systemd 241 running in system mode. (+PAM
+AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP
+GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN
-PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid)
...


Are those "failed to mount moving ..." error messages expected?

Happy new year, BTW ;-)
Ulrich