ben - uuid changes are not always reflected until after a reboot... follow THESE instructions and report back
1, determine your swap with 'fdisk -l' 2, do mkswap on your swap partition - RECORD THE UUID WHICH THIS COMMAND OUTPUTS 3, now use this UUID to put into fstab and resume files...(RESUME=UUID=<the-swap-partition-uuid-from-vol_ID should go in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume 4, update-initramfs -u 5, reboot normally after this finishes when the system has restarted again - do 'swapon -s' to check if your swap is active...and do 'ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid/' dont change any symlinks etc. just try these instructions -- swap not being mounted on boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/66637 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs