Forwarding to the list... Charles Roberts <a...@bulloch.net> writes: > Tiago Saboga wrote: >> steef <debian.li...@home.nl> writes: >> >>> hi list, >>> >>> starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or >>> something like that) >>> starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any >>> trouble at all. >>> >>> is there a generally known reason for a computerstart hanging on >>> activating a swapfile? >>> in all those years i am using debian this never happened before. >> >> It's happening too, exactly the same. That's just one machine; several >> others are running just fine with lenny. >> >> Tiago Saboga. >> >> > This happens on one of my machines also. All the rest works fine. I > finally wrote a small script and put it in rc.local that did a mkswap > then swapon. This worked. I surmised that the shutdown of the system > did something to swap.
It becomes clear that there is a problem somewhere in this code. Has someone tried to set the "verbose" option in /etc/default/rcS to true? I have just set that now, and I'll follow up in this thread when I get some results. Tiago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
