From: Alex Riesen <fork0@users.sf.net>
To: Vladim?r Trebick? <guru@cimice.yo.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Swap doesn't work
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:28:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021027102821.GA4778@steel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000601c27d96$15654540$4500a8c0@cybernet.cz>
Vladim?r Trebick?, Sun, Oct 27, 2002 09:51:17 +0100:
> > Does your swap partition show up in /proc/swaps? It has to contain
> > something like this:
> I have
> /dev/hda6 partition 594364 0 -1
looks ok.
> > Btw, do you see something swap-related in dmesg? Like:
>
> In dmesg I see only this, but some problem with signanture is in syslog
> (at the end of this mail)
>
> $ dmesg | grep swap
> Starting kswapd
> Adding Swap: 594364k swap-space (priority -1)
>
> > How did you initialized the swap partition? Recent kernels support both
> > v1 and v2 swaps, which is can be set for mkswap using -v0 (-v1).
> > Actually i mean did you initialized it at all? 8)
>
> I just created a partition with fdisk /dev/hda6, done "mkswap /dev/hda6" put
May i assume you did swapoff before?
> the information to /etc/fstab and turned it on with "swapon -a". TOP shows
> Swap: 594364K av, 0K used, 594364K free
>
> syslog logs these kinds of kernel messages (those I guess are important):
>
> Sep 29 22:04:19 shunka kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 1b3d0000
> ...
> Sep 29 22:04:19 shunka kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 1b3d0000
> ...
> Sep 10 10:03:28 shunka2 kernel: swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 00000022
You change hostname inbetween or this is just a typo?
> Sep 4 21:30:40 shunka kernel: Unable to find swap-space signature //
> !!!!!!!!
Wow. Any of the errors above prevents swap partition from being used.
How did you manage to see anything in /proc/swaps?
I suggest you do:
swapoff /dev/hda6
badblocks /dev/hda6
Alternatively, you can try
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda6; mkswap /dev/hda6
Look for "SWAP-SPACE" (old swap) or "SWAPSPACE2" (the new one).
Just to make sure you've initialized the partition properly.
Than turn it on: swapon /dev/hda6; tail /var/log/syslog
> Oct 26 19:25:29 shunka kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at
> virtual address 2064656e
Oops, you've sent, is pretty useless without decoding. Read
Documentation/oops-tracing.txt from the kernel source tree.
-alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-27 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-26 15:14 Swap doesn't work Vladimír Třebický
2002-10-26 15:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-27 9:23 ` Alex Riesen
2002-10-27 8:51 ` Vladimír Trebický
2002-10-27 9:34 ` Alexander Puchmayr
2002-10-27 10:28 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-27 11:07 Vladimír Třebický
2002-10-27 12:50 ` Alex Riesen
2002-10-27 13:12 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-27 14:48 ` Vladimír Třebický
2002-10-27 15:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-27 19:41 Tim Tassonis
2002-10-27 20:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-27 20:13 ` Tim Tassonis
2002-10-27 21:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-28 12:22 ` Tim Tassonis
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