On 20110123_174918, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:24:54 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20110123_115724, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> I can do more testing but if someone can confirm the problem (do not > >> try on production machines), I can open a bug report on this. > >> > > > > I have no special knowledge. Just a suggestion on reading this thread. > > Outside the file system, but still on disk, is the swap space. I have > > always supposed that swap space was always wiped clean and fully > > re-initialized on boot, but I don't know. Short of that, I suppose > > something can be written into the boot rom. But that seems harder to do > > than something involving creative (crazy?) use of swap space. > > Crazy things happen all time so I tried your suggestion. > > I disabled "/swap" from "/etc/fstab" and restarted the VM. My current
But whatever you did to 'disable' swap might work on the design intended use of swap and might not have any effect on X non-standard cryptic access to that piece of hard disk real estate. Paranoid I am. > resolution is 1280x1024. After booting I checked that no "/swap" > partition was in use and tried the same steps by running xrandr to change > the mode to 800x600 and restarted the machine but the last selected mode > (800x600) was kept after restarting with no "/swap" at all. > > This is getting very weird. How can this setting prevail between > bootings? Even this is something involving VM guest additions module it > should be saved in some place. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.01.23.17.49...@gmail.com > -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110123220125.gb29...@big.lan.gnu
