On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 13:39 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Noticed a 'Fail' message flash across the screen during a boot, and so > went looking in journalctl to find what it might have been. Supprise at > what I did find. After some filtering I have pulled out: > > Dec 03 12:58:33 lx120e.htt-consult.com swapoff[1951]: swapoff: > /dev/disk/by-uuid/732369cd-9f81-451e-800e-760bd8939df7: swapoff failed: > Invalid argument > Dec 03 12:58:33 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: > dev-disk-by\x2duuid-732369cd\x2d9f81\x2d451e\x2d800e\x2d760bd8939df7.swap swap > process exited, code=exited status=255 > Dec 03 12:58:33 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: Unit > dev-disk-by\x2duuid-732369cd\x2d9f81\x2d451e\x2d800e\x2d760bd8939df7.swap entered > failed state. > Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com swapon[419]: swapon: /dev/sda4: > swapon failed: Device or resource busy > Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com kernel: Adding 8388604k swap on > /dev/sda4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:8388604k SSFS > Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: dev-sda4.swap swap > process exited, code=exited status=255 > Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: Failed to activate > swap Swap Partition. > Dec 03 12:59:10 lx120e.htt-consult.com systemd[1]: Unit dev-sda4.swap > entered failed state. > > What are these messages reporting? Free shows I have swap space. Of > course with 4Gb memory, I have not done enough on the system to get it > to try and use swap space. Is the disk GPT-formatted? I think there's some kind of known bug where some code that auto-detects swap partitions on GPT disks can cause swap activation/de-activation operations to run twice, which causes error messages but no real functional problems. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
