Re: swapfile
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Charles Roberts <ai4a@bulloch.net> writes:
> Tiago Saboga wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
> This happens on one of my machines also. All the rest works fine. I
> finally wrote a small script and put it in rc.local that did a mkswap
> then swapon. This worked. I surmised that the shutdown of the system
> did something to swap.
It becomes clear that there is a problem somewhere in this code. Has
someone tried to set the "verbose" option in /etc/default/rcS to true? I
have just set that now, and I'll follow up in this thread when I get
some results.
Tiago.
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