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#1 2018-01-10 15:26:43
- olive
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Failed to deactivate SWAP
I use a swap file. I notice that quite often (but not always) when I shut down the machine, there is a brief "Failed to deactivate swap" that appears on the console. No further errors are reported. I never had this problem with a swap partition. Unfortunately, repartitioning is not really an option (I use BIOS/MBR and the 4 partitions are in use; touching the Windows partition is dangerous: quite often it leads to an unfixable unbootable Windows). My partition table is:
/dev/sda1: Main Linux partition.
/dev/sda2: Microsoft system reserved
/dev/sda3: Main Microsoft
/dev/sda4: Boot partition.
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#2 2018-01-10 20:23:41
- seth
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Re: Failed to deactivate SWAP
Post your /etc/fstab (or explain how the swap file is invoked otherwise)
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#3 2018-01-11 09:31:38
- olive
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Re: Failed to deactivate SWAP
The swap file is activated standardly in /etc/fstab. Note that the swap works as expected, it is just when I shut down the machine that I get sometimes but not always this error message. I suspect a race condition between the moment the main partition (containing the swap file) and the moment the swap is deactivated.
My complete /etc/fstab:
# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
#OEE#
# Linux related partitions
LABEL=ARCHBOOT /boot ext2 rw,relatime 0 2
LABEL=ARCHELIT / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
/swap none swap defaults 0 0
# Windows related partitions
UUID=5836D17336D1529C /mnt/windows ntfs-3g noauto,inherit,windows_names,noatime 0 0
UUID=8E82CF2082CF0BA1 /mnt/system_reserved ntfs-3g noauto,ro 0 0 0 0
# Various predefined mount points
192.168.1.100:/ /mnt/pc-fixe nfs noauto 0 0
LABEL=CLEF_BACKUP /mnt/clef_backup ext4 noauto,noatime 0 0
LABEL=DD_BACKUP /mnt/dd_backup ext4 noauto,noatime 0 0Offline
#4 2018-01-11 09:44:34
- seth
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Re: Failed to deactivate SWAP
Yup. Also /boot should be after /
Just try
# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
#OEE#
# Linux related partitions
LABEL=ARCHELIT / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
LABEL=ARCHBOOT /boot ext2 rw,relatime 0 2
# Windows related partitions
UUID=5836D17336D1529C /mnt/windows ntfs-3g noauto,inherit,windows_names,noatime 0 0
UUID=8E82CF2082CF0BA1 /mnt/system_reserved ntfs-3g noauto,ro 0 0 0 0
# Various predefined mount points
192.168.1.100:/ /mnt/pc-fixe nfs noauto 0 0
LABEL=CLEF_BACKUP /mnt/clef_backup ext4 noauto,noatime 0 0
LABEL=DD_BACKUP /mnt/dd_backup ext4 noauto,noatime 0 0
/swap none swap defaults 0 0Offline