I can confirm that adding the -s option to the kpartx call in vmdebootstrap fixes this problem.
Neil, can you make a quick upload or would you like me to NMU for this? It's impacting our ability to get community testing of the pending FreedomBox 0.2 release, so I'll be happy to help if desired. Bdale
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