FC3 - Swap partition does not come up automatically on booting.

[Dan Trainor]

Kinjal Shah wrote:
> Yes it is working
> 
> in /etc/fstab i changed the line to 
> 
> /dev/hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> 
> and restarted the server. 
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:05:32 +0100, Alexander Spanke
> <aspanke at hpce.nec.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>i had the same problems on my laptop, but with changing LABEL...
>>to /dev/hda... I got rid of the problem ..
>>
>>Regards
>> Alex
>>
>>On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:02 +0300, Kinjal Shah wrote:
>>
>>>Hello:
>>>
>>>I am having a strange problem after installing FC3 on two machines. On
>>>both machines the swap partition did not come up automatically when i
>>>booted the machine.
>>>
>>>when i do  "free" it gives me the following output.
>>>
>>>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>>Mem:       2058472     329424    1729048          0      99224     108404
>>>-/+ buffers/cache:     121796    1936676
>>>Swap:           0          0             0
>>>
>>>my /etc/fstab shows the following
>>>
>>>LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
>>>LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
>>>none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>>>none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>>>LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
>>>none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
>>>none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
>>>LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
>>>LABEL=SWAP-hda6         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>>>/dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto
>>>pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed
>>>0 0
>>>/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto
>>>pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed
>>>0 0
>>>
>>>i even tried to change the label from SWAP-hda6 to /dev/hda6 but still
>>>the same result.
>>>
>>>Please help.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>Kinjal Shah
>>>

It'd be neat to know why this is not happening as it should.  Have we 
identified this yet?  I've found this to happen on a few boxen that I've 
tinkered with, not being able to directly identify what was causing it.

Thanks
-dant