Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Sep 12, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Micha wrote:

>
> 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.

That's what is causing the UUID problem. You deleted the swap  
partition and reformated it.

You have to remove or reconfigure the sleep to swap program, uswsusp.

>
> Any ideas about what the problem is and/or how to disable UUIDs  
> altogether as
> they seem to be giving constant trouble?


I think you are "barking up the wrong tree". It's probably not a swap  
problem, you are assuming it's one because that's the last message you  
got.

Geoff.

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