To my understanding it is normal behaviour that during boot the root filesystem 
is first mounted ro and after it has passed some checks it gets remounted.
Logwatch seems to just to check the fstab line in the log file, see the error 
option and report it as a false positive.
It is a false positive because the line says "in case of an error, remount as 
ro" but the file system in fact gets remounted as rw after it was initially 
mounted as ro.
So the line from fstab appears in the dmesg log and logwatch unfortunately just 
seems to trigger on the word error.
The same thing happens with the entry "ERST: Error Record Serializa" which gets 
me a logwatch error after every boot.
I hope that future versions of logwatch will have an option to filter those 
false positives which are a real nag to me.

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