Tiago Saboga wrote:
mmmmmm... guess it's a hardware problem: the hd maybe as roger suggested?? and, indeed, how trustworthy is smartmontools (smartctl -H /dev/hdx) ?steef <debian.linux@home.nl> writes:hi list, starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or something like that) starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any trouble at all. is there a generally known reason for a computerstart hanging on activating a swapfile? in all those years i am using debian this never happened before.It's happening too, exactly the same. That's just one machine; several others are running just fine with lenny. Tiago Saboga.
steef steef