On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:01:14 +0200 Tom Goren <t...@tomgoren.com> wrote:
> use the appropriate /dev/sdaX entry instead of the UUID - something may be > messed up with the hash - especially if you have done mkswap already. > It worked for "swapon /dev/sda5" but I need to change the default boot process to use that as well. > > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Micha <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> wrote: > > > I'm trying to help a friend over the phone, so I don't have all the > > details, > > but I would be happy for some pointers if anyone has them > > > > The machine with mostly up to date debian unstable on occasion decides to > > lock > > up for several minutes after or at the point of mounting the swap > > partition. > > > > Previous time that happened starting a different kernel solved the problem. > > This time all kernels showed the same issue, we though that it was in a > > hard > > lockup, but after several minutes it freed up and continued booting. > > > > We tried running swapoff -a, mkswap and swapon -a. On the call to swapon > > the > > machine complained about not finding the swap's UUID (which didn't match > > the > > value reported by mkswap). The only information in /etc/fstab regarding > > UUID is > > commented out. > > > > Any ideas about what the problem is and/or how to disable UUIDs altogether > > as > > they seem to be giving constant trouble? > > > > thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-il mailing list > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il