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Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation



On Jun 14 2019, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> On Jun 13 2019, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> > IMHO these log messages are a bit silly --
>> >
>> > [    **] (3 of 3) A start job is running for /dev/sda4 (1min 5s / 1min 36s)
>> > ...
>> > [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/sda4.
>> > [DEPEND] Dependency failed for /dev/sda4.
>> > [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Swap.
>> > ...
>> >          Activating swap /dev/sda4...
>> > ...
>> > [  450.650000] Adding 524284k swap on /dev/sda4.  Priority:-2 extents:1 across:524284k FS
>> > ...
>> > [  OK  ] Activated swap /dev/sda4.
>> 
>> That just means that the timeout is maybe too short,
>
> Adding swap isn't that complicated.

It's not about adding swap, it's about adding the device node.  You
cannot run swapon until the device node exists.

> The device isn't late, swapon() is late (compared to Debian 3 or Debian 
> 4).

No, the device node shows up late.  That's a user-space operation,
carried out by udev.

Andreas.

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