Back from vacation, but not really arrived mentally ;) I'll try the pidfd program in the next days, and I'll also try booting with an older kernel, because I noticed the failure started with 6.11.0-rc4 while the last working journal was with 6.11.0-rc3. Maybe something in the kernel changed / broke which affects the switch from initrd to installed system. This would also explain why everyone else running tumbleweed with "normal" kernels (not Kernel:HEAD) does not see this.