F21 final RC2 - swap drive fail messages

[Orion Poplawski]

On 12/06/2014 11:47 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 13:39 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Noticed a 'Fail' message flash across the screen during a boot, and so
>> went looking in journalctl to find what it might have been. Supprise at
>> what I did find.  After some filtering I have pulled out:
>>
>> Dec 03 12:58:33 lx120e.htt-consult.com swapoff[1951]: swapoff:
>> /dev/disk/by-uuid/732369cd-9f81-451e-800e-760bd8939df7: swapoff failed:
>> Invalid argument
>> Dec 03 12:58:33 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]:
>> dev-disk-by\x2duuid-732369cd\x2d9f81\x2d451e\x2d800e\x2d760bd8939df7.swap swap
>> process exited, code=exited status=255
>> Dec 03 12:58:33 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: Unit
>> dev-disk-by\x2duuid-732369cd\x2d9f81\x2d451e\x2d800e\x2d760bd8939df7.swap entered
>> failed state.
>> Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com swapon[419]: swapon: /dev/sda4:
>> swapon failed: Device or resource busy
>> Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com kernel: Adding 8388604k swap on
>> /dev/sda4.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:8388604k SSFS
>> Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: dev-sda4.swap swap
>> process exited, code=exited status=255
>> Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: Failed to activate
>> swap Swap Partition.
>> Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: Unit dev-sda4.swap
>> entered failed state.
>>
>> What are these messages reporting?  Free shows I have swap space. Of
>> course with 4Gb memory, I have not done enough on the system to get it
>> to try and use swap space.
>
> Is the disk GPT-formatted? I think there's some kind of known bug where
> some code that auto-detects swap partitions on GPT disks can cause swap
> activation/de-activation operations to run twice, which causes error
> messages but no real functional problems.
>

Perhaps this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1017509

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