RAMLOG and LIRC not working on startup

I'm currently running  ARMBIAN 5.31 Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 4.11.5-sunxi on my Cubietruck, which otherwise works fine as a headless data and media server. However, for quite some time (also on previous ARMBIAN builds) I get two failure messages every time I boot the system:

> [FAIL] Starting up cgroup management Error: /var/log is in use ... failed ! ramlog-tmpfs 2.0.0

In /var/log/boot it says:

Sat Jun 17 19:53:57 2017: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Sat Jun 17 19:53:57 2017: [^[[36minfo^[[39;49m] Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 2.
Sat Jun 17 19:53:59 2017: [....] Starting cgroup management daemon: cgmanager[....] Starting ramlog-tmpfs 2.0.0:
Sat Jun 17 19:54:00 2017: The list of open files: (You need to close below daemons if you want to start/stop ramlog manually)
Sat Jun 17 19:54:00 2017:
Sat Jun 17 19:54:00 2017: COMMAND  PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
Sat Jun 17 19:54:00 2017: lsusb   1502 root    1w   REG  179,1   186584 2284 /var/log/armhwinfo.log
Sat Jun 17 19:54:00 2017:
Sat Jun 17 19:54:00 2017: Test result: ramlog cannot be started or stopped at the moment.

As a consequence ramlog is not running !

On testing startstop function of ramlog I get the following:

root@CT:~# /etc/init.d/ramlog teststartstop
The list of open files: (You need to close below daemons if you want to start/stop ramlog manually)

COMMAND    PID             USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF   NODE NAME
minidlnad 1499         minidlna    4w   REG  179,1     2018   2188 /var/log/minidlna.log
nmbd      1858             root    2w   REG  179,1     1863 128555 /var/log/samba/log.nmbd
nmbd      1858             root    8w   REG  179,1     1863 128555 /var/log/samba/log.nmbd
smbd      2056             root    2w   REG  179,1      933 128812 /var/log/samba/log.smbd
smbd      2056             root    8w   REG  179,1      933 128812 /var/log/samba/log.smbd
squeezebo 2093 squeezeboxserver    6w   REG  179,1   167550 128891 /var/log/squeezeboxserver/server.log
squeezebo 2093 squeezeboxserver    7w   REG  179,1        0 142384 /var/log/squeezeboxserver/perfmon.log

Test result: ramlog cannot be started or stopped at the moment.

The second boot-up failure message refers to LIRC not working:

> [FAIL] Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC : failed

In /var/log/boot log it says:

Sat Jun 17 19:54:08 2017: /etc/init.d/lirc: 1: /etc/lirc/hardware.conf: î\007SK9XJ¤\005í\00714.8.4-sunxiSK9X£Þ\005ñ\00744.8.4-sunxi: not found
Sat Jun 17 19:54:08 2017: [....] Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC :^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[31mFAIL^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c ^[[31mfailed!^[[39;49m
 

As I don't use any IR functions on the Cubietruck, this doesn't really matter, I suppose. But most likely there is a way to get rid of this error message. Trouble is I don't know it.

Any remedial aid would be appreciated, many thanx in advance !