Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

[Bryen <suseROCKS@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 09:06 -0600, Jim Flanagan wrote:
> Jc Polanycia wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 06:46:03 Matthew Stringer wrote:
> >   
> > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 12:48:46 Jim Flanagan wrote:
> > >     
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On my new 10.3 install I set up 2 drives in raid1 mirror, using
> > > > software raid in yast. All seems to be working fine except in
> > > > Kinfocenter>memory swap is shown as not available. Yast shows swap with
> > > > an "*" beside it. My partitions are set up as follows:
> > > > primary
> > > > /dev/md0 /boot
> > > > extended
> > > > /dev/md1 /swap
> > > > /dev/md2 /
> > > > /dev/md3 /home
> > > > /dev/md4 /share
> > > >
> > > > I'm not that familiar with tweaking swap and have only set it up in
> > > > yast>partitioner before with no previous problems. This is my first
> > > > raid setup so there may be an issue with that, but again, all others
> > > > partitions are working fine. I tried editing swap in yast to format it
> > > > again as /swap but it failed with an error code -3004.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone know what this problem may be?
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks,
> > > >
> > > > JIm F
> > > >       
> >
> >     Try running swapon -s and see if the device is listed.  Also, 
> > cat /proc/mdstat.   Your swap device should show up in the swapon -s 
> > command.  It should show up in mdstat but may be listed as 
> > (auto-read-only).
> >     I had a similar issue on one of my hosts and ended up having to change 
> > the 
> > boot flags.  I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst and changed the item 
> > resume=/dev/md1 to noresume.  This disables the ability to hibernate the 
> > machine, but allowed my swap to work properly.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > -jc
> >
> >   
> swapon -s shows one line like this....
> Filename                                      Type     Size    Use    
> Priority
>
> with nothing else listed below.
>
> cat /proc/mdstat does show md1 as active (auto-read-only)
>
> Do you mean replace "resume=/dev/md1" with "noresume"?
>
> Also, while at this point I don't envision hibernating this machine, you
> never know. Is there a different fix without disabling hibernate? Will
> subsequent grub installs pick up this noresume flag?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jim F
What does the swap partition look like in /etc/fstab?

You can type  'cat /etc/fstab | grep swap' and paste the results here.

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