Description of problem: for unknown reasons, fedora 7 is no longer mounting swap partition on my f7 computer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: reboot computer Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: free shows 0/0/0 at swap line Expected results: free shows Swap: 1004052 0 1004052 Additional info: the bugs appeared two months ago in the first computer, today (16th of august 2007)in the second computer. on the first computer, only things i did was yum update and such. on the second computer i did a lot of crazy things, like instaling seedit-gui, wich took me by surprise today when, at the next boot, wanted to relabel the filesystem. from that point on, things became very strange. (after relabel, reboot, after reboot, reboot again.) i am _not sure_ if at the third boot, when the computer started, the swap was still there, but, at some point in time, i've found out i have not enough ram to install vmware server. from that moment on, swap was available only if i mounted manually. i tested it's existence on runlevel 3,2,1. was nowwhere to be found. unfortunately, the first copmputer is no longer available (it was replaced). i's really like to fix this probem. i suspect some other things no longer work during boot, because of nonexistence of swap, or maybe for other reason (i've seen one of my network cards failing to start). also, i believe ,the network configuration changes from runlevel 1 to runlevel 5 (my nvidia card starts by being eth0 and ends by being eth1. i have no idea if this things are related.
What does your fstab look like, and what happens if you run 'swapon -a -e' by hand? I suspect that seedit-gui has broken your policy, but that's only a guess.
unfortunately i've removed that fedora install two hours ago. thnx anyway. fstab looked like this: LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home /home auto defaults 0 0 LABEL=/mnt/music /mnt/music auto defaults 0 0 LABEL=/mnt/lfs /mnt/lfs auto defaults 0 0 never run swapon -a -e but swapon -a and mount -a did nothing. however, mounting swap with swapom <partition> worked. the behaviour reminds me of early ntf-3g + fuse when i had to put ntfs-rg <partition> <mount-point> in rc.local, since it was avcdenied during boot. (i do not remember having seedit-gui on the first computer.) imho we should close this bug since we can not longer get more info.
OK.
thnx again