[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2013-11-06 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 Ti

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2013-09-07 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Sephiroth, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com /daily-live/curre

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2010-09-20 Thread Lukas Diduch
Confirm Solution #34 (Anyeos wrote on 2009-07-02): The boot process seems to freeze AFTER "Activating swapfile swap". (It reports [OK] doesn't it). I assume as well it's S36mountall-bootclean.sh. Cleaning /tmp solves the freeze. (It took about 10mins to rm -rf * my 20 GB of files there) I wo

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2010-01-30 Thread Alx
Upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 on an Acer Aspire 3103WLMi laptop, and at the restart it hung up on "Activating swapfile swap..." Also, during the upgrade, memtest86+ failed to install. -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-09-11 Thread Luciano Barcellos
Same problem here. Jaunty 9.04 on Dell Vostro 1510 from livecd installation. No Wubi. I don't know whether that matters, but the machine has dual boot. The sda4 partition is ntfs. -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 Y

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-08-22 Thread Soltész András
I have a very similar problem with a simple (non-Wubi) installation. "Activating swapfile swap" hangs around for 90 seconds before proceeding. The hard-drive is spinning like crazy in that period. Deleting from the /tmp folder didn't help. -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..."

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-07-02 Thread Anyeos
All of this can be a lot of files on /tmp Next to activate swapfile the system just delete files from /tmp In my particular case that was the problem I just was testing the creation of a lot of directories (1 millon) in /tmp so my system just hang next to "Activating swapfile" and pressing Ctrl+A

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-06-02 Thread Magnus Wissler
When I wrote Linux I meant Ubuntu... just to be clear. -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs ma

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-06-02 Thread Magnus Wissler
Confirm, but not with Wubi I'm running an upgraded 8.10 => 9.04 x86_64 Linux originally installed without Wubi, and I see the "Activating swapfile swap" which hangs around for 1-2 minutes before proceeding. This didn't occur until about a month ago (i.e. not related to the upgrade itself). Is the

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-05-20 Thread Tony Adams
Hi , I am not in your computing league, but I installed to a WD 400GB "new drive" (which I did not format) and I upgraded to 9.04 because I could not resolve wireless internet access issues with 8.10. It also hangs at the "activate swapfile" point. Since this is an accessory drive should I format i

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-03-07 Thread jfbooth
After doing all that, I still had to uninstall XUBUNTU, defrag Windows disk, and WUBI install Xubuntu. It purrs like a kitten now. -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-03-06 Thread jfbooth
One more thing, while in Windows, I turned off System Restore ... too a LONG time to delete all the restore points so there must have been quite a few. I also diabled Prefetch. I have NOT yet uninstalled KUBUNTU and all my drive activity is normal. Will try to boot to Kubuntu and see how swapfil

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-03-06 Thread jfbooth
I booted to XP pro and attempted a HDD defrag. Analysis said it was TREMENDOUSLY fragmented. I started the defrag and got the following notice: This is from a Windows XP defrag. Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented 41 589 MB \ubuntu\install\.fus

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-03-06 Thread jfbooth
Same problem XUBUNTU though. Old Dell Latitude 20G hard drive, Wubi install to XP Pro. $ uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21934

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2009-02-18 Thread Tim
same problem, Acer Aspire 7100 laptop -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-11-15 Thread James Berry
I have the same problem dating back to when I first installed 8.04 using Wubi. I hoped it would be fixed by upgrading to 8.10 but no such luck. Does anyone have instructions for recreating the swap.disk file? Should there be an entry for swap in blkid? Linux james-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tu

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-11-12 Thread hotchip
Im starting to think its one of the 3 thing: The hard format The type of harddrive or how big the freespace selected in wubi install. My 20 gig wasnt compressed format and i only set it to 4 gig space and it worked fine. But my 40 gig was compressed format and i set it to 9 gigs and i got the p

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-11-10 Thread Swagman
This problem also occurs on an AMD64 asus A4book (ati mobility 9700) laptop installed into XP home via wubi. It showed its ugly head on initial install of 8:04. Symptoms: Orange bar goes over rapidly(ish) to about 38% whereby it hangs for about 20 secs before dropping into text screen. Various OK

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-11-09 Thread zorblek
I'm experiencing the same problem as thomsit on wubi 8.04 upgraded to 8.10. I've had the same problem in both versions. It takes about 5 minutes to move on. This may just be coincidence, but I've noticed that the majority of people reporting this bug seem to be using Dell machines. I have an XPS M

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-11-05 Thread Carl Moss
Same for me as thomsit, except I originally had to wait 20 minutes for the swapfile to activate. I cleared some space on the disk and re-installed Intrepid via wubi from the CD. There's still a delay - now seconds rather than minutes - activating the swapfile. dmesg doesn't show any errors. The sw

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-11-02 Thread thomsit
Same here with with original wubi 8.04 updated to final 8.10 Ibex. The startup freezes for about one minute at "activating swapfile swap" with no hard drive activity. -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received t

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-10-22 Thread hotchip
I have this same problem.I installed it twice.first on a 20 gig drive which worked fine but i partitioned it 4gig to try it out.and it worked fine till i ran out of space. so i i tried installing on a 40 give drive with wubi partition of 9gig and during the wubi install i had the problem with swap

Re: [Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-10-21 Thread Reagan
I have ubuntu installed on an uncompressed drive... I still have the same problem... I haven't upgraded to 8.10 yet though... Am waiting for the final release to upgrade... On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Malcolm Cringe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for responding. To answer your question,

Re: [Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-10-21 Thread Malcolm Cringe
Thanks for responding. To answer your question, no. I created a partition for Ubuntu and installed on that. Since reporting this error, I let it sit on the "Activating swapfile swap" message overnight. When I woke up, it had gone through it, and I don't get that message any more. Maybe I just wasn'

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-10-21 Thread Marius
- Malcolm Cringe, did you try installing as i did (on a uncompressed windows partition) ? from what i can tell, if wubi creates the "swap.disk" on a compressed partition, windows will also compress that file, and THAT causes (at least to me) all the problems during the main ubuntu install so i d

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-10-18 Thread Malcolm Cringe
I upgrated to 8.10 beta, and I still have this problem. Freezes on "Activating swapfile swap". I originally did a Wubi installation. -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received this bug notification because you a

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-08-28 Thread Leann Ogasawara
The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test: 1) If you are comfortable

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-08-11 Thread Marius
hi i had the same problem, for my case i simply uncompressed the ntfs drive and it installed without problems. there is another way to solve this whilst keeping the drive compressed by selecting the ubuntu folder and subfolders uncompressed regards -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-08-10 Thread Nick Ellery
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubu

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-07-28 Thread Saïvann Carignan
** Attachment added: "lspci-vvnn.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16375593/lspci-vvnn.log -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-07-28 Thread Saïvann Carignan
** Attachment added: "uname-a.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16375597/uname-a.log -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-07-28 Thread Saïvann Carignan
** Attachment added: "dmesg.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16375592/dmesg.log -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 219349] Re: Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation

2008-07-28 Thread Saïvann Carignan
** Attachment added: "version.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16375626/version.log -- Hardy wait so much on "Activating swapfile swap..." on Wubi installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219349 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscr