Re: Prelink eating all my resources
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:17:02AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Peter Teuben <teuben(a)astro.umd.edu> wrote:
> > I had reported on a similar problem, and finally paid attention to the
> > output of "df" which showed 0 usage of swap. In fact, total was 0
too,
> > i.e. i had no swap despite that it was installed with swap. Turned
> > out the /etc/fstab file had a rather curious line in it:
> >
> > LABEL= swap swap defaults 0 0
> >
> > where the = sign was followed by 15 0xAA characters (that dind't print
> > in the cut&paste above)!! So, no wonder. I suspect it is something in
> > the installed that is broken, since i install redhat systems fairly
> > regularly, or i overlooked a new(?) requirement that partitions be
> > labeled.
> >
This is not true. Partitions may be, but do not have to be labeled.
good. But my real point is that i think i then ran into an installation
bug. It will be hard to reproduce though (well, it being a lot of work
on a production machine for me). But i'll be a good citizen and search
for it on bugzilla and file a "bug".
peter