On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 00:27 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I can't get swapon to work and I'm sure swap is off.
>
> [root@ophth-bilora chippy]# free -m
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 495 487 7 0 26
> 203
> -/+ buffers/cache: 258 237
> Swap: 0 0 0
> [root@ophth-bilora chippy]# /sbin/swapon /dev/hda6
> swapon: /dev/hda6: Invalid argument
>
>
> [root@ophth-bilora chippy]# cat /etc/fstab
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults
> 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
> 0 0
> /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/proc /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults
> 0 0
> LABEL=SWAP-hda6 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222
> 0 0
> /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto
> pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>
>
> Here is what dmesg shows:
>
> Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> resume2=swap:/dev/hda6
> audit(1158897380.741:4): avc: denied { unlink } for pid=1852
> comm="swapon" name="blkid.tab.old" dev=dm-0 ino=1733754
> scontext=system_u:system_r:fsadm_t tcontext=root:object_r:etc_t
> tclass=file
> Unable to find swap-space signature
> Unable to find swap-space signature
> Unable to find swap-space signature
> Unable to find swap-space signature
> Unable to find swap-space signature
> Unable to find swap-space signature
>
>
> A few days ago (right before this problem started), I installed
> acpitool
> and I tried to do a suspend (which didn't work). I think that screwed
> something up!
>
> Rick
Well clearly swap is not on. But the command to turn it on is:
swapon -a -e
which should be run by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit on boot
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
