Package: uswsusp Severity: normal Quoting Steve Kleene (skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu): (this was a mail in debian-boot, but not a bug report. I turn this into a bug report against uswsusp. Please answer to that bug report rather than to this mail directly. I'll post the bug number as soon as I receive it. Steve, it would be good to make you the bug submitter but I need your agreement for this > I've built three Etch systems this year. The most recent seems fine, but its > installation proceeded differently than in the past, and so I'm confused. > > I installed from the latest netinst CD. During "Select and install > software", the following came up: > > "The swap partition that was found in uswsusp's configuration file is > not active. In most cases this means userspace software suspend will > not work for you and you will need to choose (or let uswsusp choose) > another partition. In some corner cases, however, this can be what you > want. > > "Continue without a valid swap partition?" This issue clearly needs to be dealt with the uswsusp package maintainer as it apparently happens during the software initial install on a *new* system. From a quick look to uswsusp config script, I see it seems to include special d-i-related code, to support devfs-style names. However, d-i doesn't use devfs anymore, so I suspect that something might need to be adapted in uswsusp config script. The comment even says "This will be removed when d-i starts using `normal' device names."......"This" should now probably be removed.. :-) The remaining of Steve's mail, for completeness: > > One would think that answering "No" (continue without a valid swap partition) > would be a bad idea. In fact, it was the only way to get the installation to > complete. > > I now find that I have /usr/sbin/s2disk, /etc/uswsusp.conf, and other > hibernation software that is not present on my previous two installations. > I did the same "software selection" on those but used whatever Etch (stable) > netinst CD was current. > > As far as I can tell, I do have a valid swap partition despite the error > during installation. /proc/swaps has > > Filename Type Size Used Priority > /dev/hda5 partition 1461904 524 -1 > > I have two questions. > > 1. What caused hibernation software to be installed this time but not in the > recent past? > 2. Do I have a valid swap partition? > > This could be related to bug 411727, but supposedly that was fixed. Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > ** CRM114 Whitelisted by: WHITELIST ** > --
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