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sidc

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Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 76

Swap not activating?

I tried hibernate on my laptop yesterday for the first time by typing pm-hibernate in the terminal( I made sure I had enough swap-space ) and it looked like it was going on fine, but when I restarted , I noticed that all the windows I had open before I hibernated were closed( a fresh session started). Basically, hibernate failed. But, what's worse is that now the swap partition is not being mounted, it says FAIL in the start when it tries to activate the swap partition. Is there some configuration file which got edited when I typed pm-hibernate which is preventing the swap partition from activating? How do I reactivate the swap?

stylopath

Member

Registered: 2007-07-26

Posts: 112

Re: Swap not activating?

Try a

swapoff -a
mkswap /dev/your_swap_device
swapon -a

that solved the issue for me.

sidc

Member

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 76

Re: Swap not activating?

Doesnt work for me unfortunately