>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
Isnt this indicating that you need to do a 'mkswap /dev/hda6'
to set up your swap area properly?
Terry.
>>
>>
>> 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
>
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