Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

[Tom Goren]

ok - so edit fstab

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Micha Feigin <michf at post.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:01:14 +0200
> Tom Goren <tom at tomgoren.com> wrote:
>
> > use the appropriate /dev/sdaX entry instead of the UUID - something may
> be
> > messed up with the hash - especially if you have done mkswap already.
> >
>
> It worked for "swapon /dev/sda5" but I need to change the default boot
> process to
> use that as well.
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Micha <michf at post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to help a friend over the phone, so I don't have all the
> > > details,
> > > but I would be happy for some pointers if anyone has them
> > >
> > > The machine with mostly up to date debian unstable on occasion decides
> to
> > > lock
> > > up for several minutes after or at the point of mounting the swap
> > > partition.
> > >
> > > Previous time that happened starting a different kernel solved the
> problem.
> > > This time all kernels showed the same issue, we though that it was in a
> > > hard
> > > lockup, but after several minutes it freed up and continued booting.
> > >
> > > We tried running swapoff -a, mkswap and swapon -a. On the call to
> swapon
> > > the
> > > machine complained about not finding the swap's UUID (which didn't
> match
> > > the
> > > value reported by mkswap). The only information in /etc/fstab regarding
> > > UUID is
> > > commented out.
> > >
> > > Any ideas about what the problem is and/or how to disable UUIDs
> altogether
> > > as
> > > they seem to be giving constant trouble?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
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