On 26Mar2006 16:26, James Jolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| When booting up suse 10 I get this:
|   swsusp suspend partition has wrong signature?
| What. pray tell, it that telling me?

Software suspend dumps the machine state to a swap partition and then
powers off the machine. On the next boot, the partition used for this is
examined to see if it contains such a state dump. If so, it is restored
and the machine should come up with everything running as before. If not,
it is presumed that a non-suspend shutdown was done, and a conventional
boot is done.

Since swsusp writes to a swap area (generally) I would guess that that
partition is neither a swap area nor a swsusp dump. An aborted suspend
might do that (it shouldn't), or an uninitialised swap partition.

You need to find out what partition it is looking at and whether it
should be a swap partition (maybe not!) and whether it's in use. Etc.

| Is there any place where I can find info to decipher some of these boot 
| messages and the messages that come when x windows starts?

As mentioned, google can help with obscure stuff.
Often the message will be prefixed with the daemon/program that emitted
it. A competently written app will do that. Then consult the doco for
that app (eg "man the-app-name"). This is more precise than
Google.
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