start up hangs on "Enabling Swap Space"

[jludwig]

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 06:07, Duane Parsons wrote:
> Things working fine this morning, but when I tried to
> reboot just a while ago, the system kept getting hung
> up on the Enabling Swap Space part of the process. How
> can I fix this?
> 
> Duane
> 
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I had this happen also, but my system did not eventually continue.
What I did was boot from the cdrom in rescue and reformatted swap 
with mkswap and then rebooted.
I suspect that swap area is not getting cleared at shutdown. 
But, I really don't know much about the swap handling process.

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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>