Bug 124613

Summary: Reboot hangs at "turning off swap"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tako Schotanus <tako>
Component: kernelAssignee: Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-06-02 17:22:19 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Tako Schotanus 2004-05-27 21:26:26 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040421

Description of problem:
After upgrading from FC1 to FC2 rebooting the system will hang at the
point where it says "turning off swap". Trying to do "swapoff -a" will
hang forever as well.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
util-linux.2.12-18

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. swapoff -a


Actual Results:  Nothing, it hangs

Expected Results:  Aything else but a hang. Not turning of swapping
while rebooting shouldn't be much of a problem I imagine so I could
just take it out but I'd rather fix the problem.

Additional info:

A similar problem seems to have been reported for SuSE but without any
infromation that I could use to fix the problem:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Nov/3666.html

The thread seems to suggest that having SCSI disks might be at the
heart of the problem and that is possible because at the moment of the
conversion from FC1 to FC2 the system contained an Adaptec SCSI card
with 2 CDROM drives. The card (and drives) have since been removed
from the system. Unfortunately I cannot test anymore if putting them
back would make everything work again.
Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2004-06-02 17:22:19 UTC 
This would probably be the kernel.

If you can't reproduce the problem now, then there's no point in
working together on a fix. :\