<div dir="ltr">ok - so edit fstab<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Micha Feigin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michf@post.tau.ac.il">michf@post.tau.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:01:14 +0200<br>
<div class="im">Tom Goren <<a href="mailto:tom@tomgoren.com">tom@tomgoren.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">> use the appropriate /dev/sdaX entry instead of the UUID - something may be<br>
> messed up with the hash - especially if you have done mkswap already.<br>
><br>
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</div>It worked for "swapon /dev/sda5" but I need to change the default boot process to<br>
use that as well.<br>
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> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Micha <<a href="mailto:michf@post.tau.ac.il">michf@post.tau.ac.il</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > I'm trying to help a friend over the phone, so I don't have all the<br>
> > details,<br>
> > but I would be happy for some pointers if anyone has them<br>
> ><br>
> > The machine with mostly up to date debian unstable on occasion decides to<br>
> > lock<br>
> > up for several minutes after or at the point of mounting the swap<br>
> > partition.<br>
> ><br>
> > Previous time that happened starting a different kernel solved the problem.<br>
> > This time all kernels showed the same issue, we though that it was in a<br>
> > hard<br>
> > lockup, but after several minutes it freed up and continued booting.<br>
> ><br>
> > We tried running swapoff -a, mkswap and swapon -a. On the call to swapon<br>
> > the<br>
> > machine complained about not finding the swap's UUID (which didn't match<br>
> > the<br>
> > value reported by mkswap). The only information in /etc/fstab regarding<br>
> > UUID is<br>
> > commented out.<br>
> ><br>
> > Any ideas about what the problem is and/or how to disable UUIDs altogether<br>
> > as<br>
> > they seem to be giving constant trouble?<br>
> ><br>
> > thanks<br>
> ><br>
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