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swapon(8) tries to activate already active swap partition if the swap area is on DM device. Fixed by upstream patch: commit b98ff23e879826d0b041a18ca1090428748b9ef3 Author: Alexey Gladkov Date: Wed Dec 15 02:14:18 2010 +0300 swapon: Canonicalize swap device Swapon checks whether a swap device is active by searching for the device name in /proc/swaps. /proc/swaps always specifies the path to real device file, even if the path to real device file, even if symlink was passed to the swapon() system call. This differs from /proc/mounts semantics where each string contains exactly the same device name as it was passed to the mount*() system call. If a swap partition resides on lvm, libblkid returns a name in form /dev/mapper/*, but now there are symlinks pointing to device files /dev/dm-*, resulting to /proc/swaps containing /dev/dm-*, but swapon still looks for /dev/mapper/* and tries to activate the swap partition again. [kzak: - remove unnecessary changes from is_in_proc_swaps()] Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov Tested-by: Petr Uzel Signed-off-by: Karel
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1691.html