On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:13:38 +0200 geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. > Yes, but why is it looking for it by UUID and how do I disable it? > You have to remove or reconfigure the sleep to swap program, uswsusp. > I think I killed it when I installed his machine a long time ago, I don't like uswsusp, but I'll check. How is it related to swapon complaining about UUID though? > > > > 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. > It was just to make sure, I was thinking a different place as well, but the complaint about UUID left a suspicion that I'm trying to remove. Considering UUID gave me nothing but trouble on multiple computers anyway I'd rather remove any dependency on them in any case. > Geoff. > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
