Bryen wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
That returns...

/dev/md1         swap         swap        defaults         0 0

Thanks,

Jim F
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