FC3 - Swap partition does not come up automatically on booting.

[Kinjal Shah]

Hello:

I am having a strange problem after installing FC3 on two machines. On
both machines the swap partition did not come up automatically when i
booted the machine.

when i do  "free" it gives me the following output.

total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2058472     329424    1729048          0      99224     108404
-/+ buffers/cache:     121796    1936676
Swap:           0          0             0

my /etc/fstab shows the following

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto   
pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto   
pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
0 0

i even tried to change the label from SWAP-hda6 to /dev/hda6 but still
the same result.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

Kinjal Shah

[Alexander Spanke]

Hi,

i had the same problems on my laptop, but with changing LABEL...
to /dev/hda... I got rid of the problem ..

Regards
 Alex

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:02 +0300, Kinjal Shah wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am having a strange problem after installing FC3 on two machines. On
> both machines the swap partition did not come up automatically when i
> booted the machine.
>
> when i do  "free" it gives me the following output.
>          total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>
> Mem:       2058472     329424    1729048          0      99224     108404
> -/+ buffers/cache:     121796    1936676
> Swap:           0          0             0
>
> my /etc/fstab shows the following
>
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto   
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto   
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
>
> i even tried to change the label from SWAP-hda6 to /dev/hda6 but still
> the same result.
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kinjal Shah

[Kinjal Shah]

Yes it is working

in /etc/fstab i changed the line to

/dev/hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

and restarted the server.

Thanks for the quick reply.

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:05:32 +0100, Alexander Spanke
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i had the same problems on my laptop, but with changing LABEL...
> to /dev/hda... I got rid of the problem ..
>
> Regards
>  Alex
>
> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:02 +0300, Kinjal Shah wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I am having a strange problem after installing FC3 on two machines. On
> > both machines the swap partition did not come up automatically when i
> > booted the machine.
> >
> > when i do  "free" it gives me the following output.
> >          total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> >
> > Mem:       2058472     329424    1729048          0      99224     108404
> > -/+ buffers/cache:     121796    1936676
> > Swap:           0          0             0
> >
> > my /etc/fstab shows the following
> >
> > LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> > LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> > LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> > none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> > LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> > LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto
> > pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
> > 0 0
> > /dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto
> > pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
> > 0 0
> >
> > i even tried to change the label from SWAP-hda6 to /dev/hda6 but still
> > the same result.
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Kinjal Shah
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[Dan Trainor]

Kinjal Shah wrote:
> Yes it is working
>
> in /etc/fstab i changed the line to
>
> /dev/hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>
> and restarted the server.
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:05:32 +0100, Alexander Spanke
>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i had the same problems on my laptop, but with changing LABEL...
> > to /dev/hda... I got rid of the problem ..
> >
> > Regards
> > Alex
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:02 +0300, Kinjal Shah wrote:
> > > Hello:
> > >
> > > I am having a strange problem after installing FC3 on two machines. On
> > > both machines the swap partition did not come up automatically when i
> > > booted the machine.
> > >
> > > when i do  "free" it gives me the following output.
> > >         total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > >
> > > Mem:       2058472     329424    1729048          0      99224     108404
> > > -/+ buffers/cache:     121796    1936676
> > > Swap:           0          0             0
> > >
> > > my /etc/fstab shows the following
> > >
> > > LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> > > LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > > none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > > none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> > > LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> > > none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> > > none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> > > LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> > > LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > > /dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto
> > > pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
> > > 0 0
> > > /dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto
> > > pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
> > > 0 0
> > >
> > > i even tried to change the label from SWAP-hda6 to /dev/hda6 but still
> > > the same result.
> > >
> > > Please help.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Kinjal Shah

It'd be neat to know why this is not happening as it should.  Have we 
identified this yet?  I've found this to happen on a few boxen that I've 
tinkered with, not being able to directly identify what was causing it.

Thanks
-dant

[James McKenzie]

Dan Trainor wrote:
> > > >
>
> It'd be neat to know why this is not happening as it should.  Have we 
> identified this yet?  I've found this to happen on a few boxen that I've 
> tinkered with, not being able to directly identify what was causing it.

I will advise that if you do not edit your initrd when using Software 
Suspend 2, your swap will not be placed on-line if you suspend your 
system.  As far as the label being incorrect in fstab, that could be 
because the partition had a label and was removed.

[Paul Howarth]

Kinjal Shah wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I am having a strange problem after installing FC3 on two machines. On
> both machines the swap partition did not come up automatically when i
> booted the machine.
>
> when i do  "free" it gives me the following output.
>          total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>
> Mem:       2058472     329424    1729048          0      99224     108404
> -/+ buffers/cache:     121796    1936676
> Swap:           0          0             0
>
> my /etc/fstab shows the following
>
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto   
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto   
> pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
> 0 0
>
> i even tried to change the label from SWAP-hda6 to /dev/hda6 but still
> the same result.

How did you create the swap partitions? Manually, or using the Fedora 
installer?

Are they formatted?

Paul.