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lspci

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2012-06-09

Posts: 242

[SOLVED] Swap Activation Fail

I've been having this problem for a long time, and I'm really glad to have finally managed to get it fixed.  Here's what I did. 

1. Reformatted my swap partitions as linux swap partitions.  (Originally I think they were formatted as swap, but I later changed them to ext4, and when that didn't work I changed them back to linux-swap.)  If you can't reformat them using gparted, try using palimpsest--a.k.a. gnome-disk-utility--to reformat them and then use gparted to format them back to linux-swap.

2. Rebooted and everything worked fine.

I actually even wrote a shell script that would initialize my swap space for me, I just had to enter the super user password in order for it to work.  I also wrote a clisp script to handle the shell script that took care of activating my swap--just as a side note, the reason why I wrote a common lisp script was so that I could have it run both my swact.sh script (the swap activation script) and my ensur.sh script (which ensures that skype continues running--skype often seems to crash from a problem with the preload for my webcam.  The script just automates the process of restarting skype every time it crashes.)

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