Hello Steef,
Last weekend, i had the same problem on an Fujitsu-Siemens Notebook.
But i have no external drive connected to the Notebook.
The Notebook worked fine for weeks and this was the first time, this
issue was observed.
One question:
This Notebook has 768MB of RAM and is only used for Off
Mark Marcacci wrote:
Thanks everyone for the input and advice. It sounds like my
"Activating Swap" issue is a bit different than some of the ones
others have encountered, so I've put some info below that led to a
solution for me that maybe someone else can use:
1) The machine is a Dell Inspi
Thanks everyone for the input and advice. It sounds like my "Activating
Swap" issue is a bit different than some of the ones others have
encountered, so I've put some info below that led to a solution for me that
maybe someone else can use:
1) The machine is a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a fresh inst
On Thursday 02 July 2009, Mark Marcacci wrote:
> The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny 5.0.2,had
> had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then tonight from a cold
> start it hung at "Activating Swap". Before this happened, I had connected
> an NTFS drive (using
Does it hang on it and stops booting?
I'm asking 'cos i had issues with swap a while ago, there was a
message during boot, in red, that would say "failed to activate swap"
or similar, but the boot process continued. Turns out i had a bunch of
programs in /usr/sbin with no permissions at all, chang
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:09:52PM -0700, Mark Marcacci wrote:
> The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny
> 5.0.2,had had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then
I don't know why you're having a problem, but I'd suggest the following:
- boot into runlevel 1
Mark Marcacci wrote:
The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny
5.0.2,had had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then
tonight from a cold start it hung at "Activating Swap". Before this
happened, I had connected an NTFS drive (using NTFS-3g package) via
USB and
The subject line says it all. Just did a clean install of Lenny 5.0.2,had
had several successful reboots and shutdowns and then tonight from a cold
start it hung at "Activating Swap". Before this happened, I had connected
an NTFS drive (using NTFS-3g package) via USB and copied over 60 GB of data
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