I often see the following message when running Fuchsia unittests locally:
[00001.603] 01444.01513> /system/cr_autorun: 3: /system/cr_autorun: cannot create /dev/null: Directory nonexistent
[00001.603] 01444.01513> /system/cr_autorun: 3: /system/cr_autorun: cannot create /dev/null: Directory nonexistent
[00001.603] 01444.01513> /system/cr_autorun: 3: /system/cr_autorun: cannot create /dev/null: Directory nonexistent
[00001.603] 01444.01513> /system/cr_autorun: 3: /system/cr_autorun: cannot create /dev/null: Directory nonexistent
[00001.603] 01444.01513> /system/cr_autorun: 3: /system/cr_autorun: cannot create /dev/null: Directory nonexistent
[00001.603] 01444.01513> /system/cr_autorun: 3: /system/cr_autorun: cannot create /dev/null: Directory nonexistent
[00001.603] 01444.01513> /system/cr_autorun: 3: /system/cr_autorun: cannot create /dev/null: Directory nonexistent
[00001.603] 01444.01513> /system/cr_autorun: 3: /system/cr_autorun: cannot create /dev/null: Directory nonexistent
[00001.603] 01444.01513> /system/cr_autorun: 3: /system/cr_autorun: cannot create /dev/null: Directory nonexistent
Usually there is about hundred of these and then they stop. Zircon starts cr_autorun while devmgr is still initializing and /dev/null may not exist at this point.
Comment 1 by bugdroid1@chromium.org
, Jan 4 2018