Problem at startup - lockup loading swap

[Micha Feigin]

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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