Description of problem: tries to enable swap when changing runlevel Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-44-24.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: (start in gui) init 3 do something init 5 check messages Actual results: Jun 12 18:43:15 box swapon[2051]: swapon: /dev/dm-10: swapon failed: Device or resource busy Jun 12 18:43:15 box systemd[1]: dev-dm\x2d10.swap swap process exited, code=exited status=255 Jun 12 18:43:15 box systemd[1]: Unit dev-dm\x2d10.swap entered failed state. Jun 12 18:44:44 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.device/start timed out. Jun 12 18:44:44 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 12 18:44:44 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 12 18:44:44 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.device/start timed out. Jun 12 18:44:44 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 12 18:44:44 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 12 18:44:44 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.device/start timed out. Jun 12 18:44:44 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 12 18:44:44 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 13 04:37:32 box swapon[1209]: swapon: /dev/dm-10: swapon failed: Device or resource busy Jun 13 04:37:32 box systemd[1]: dev-dm\x2d10.swap swap process exited, code=exited status=255 Jun 13 04:37:32 box systemd[1]: Unit dev-dm\x2d10.swap entered failed state. Jun 13 04:39:02 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.device/start timed out. Jun 13 04:39:02 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 13 04:39:02 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 13 04:39:02 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.device/start timed out. Jun 13 04:39:02 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 13 04:39:02 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 13 04:39:02 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.device/start timed out. Jun 13 04:39:02 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 13 04:39:02 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 13 05:06:52 box swapon[2897]: swapon: /dev/dm-10: swapon failed: Device or resource busy Jun 13 05:06:52 box systemd[1]: dev-dm\x2d10.swap swap process exited, code=exited status=255 Jun 13 05:06:52 box systemd[1]: Unit dev-dm\x2d10.swap entered failed state. Jun 13 05:08:22 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.device/start timed out. Jun 13 05:08:22 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 13 05:08:22 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 13 05:08:22 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.device/start timed out. Jun 13 05:08:22 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 13 05:08:22 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 13 05:08:22 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.device/start timed out. Jun 13 05:08:22 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 13 05:08:22 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 13 15:02:36 box swapon[13106]: swapon: /dev/dm-10: swapon failed: Device or resource busy Jun 13 15:02:36 box systemd[1]: dev-dm\x2d10.swap swap process exited, code=exited status=255 Jun 13 15:02:36 box systemd[1]: Unit dev-dm\x2d10.swap entered failed state. Jun 13 15:04:06 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.device/start timed out. Jun 13 15:04:06 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 13 15:04:06 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapd.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 13 15:04:06 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.device/start timed out. Jun 13 15:04:06 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 13 15:04:06 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapb.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Jun 13 15:04:06 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.device/start timed out. Jun 13 15:04:06 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'. Jun 13 15:04:06 box systemd[1]: Job dev-mapper-swapa.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. Expected results: No messages about swap Additional info:
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Loads of bugzilla emails won't help.
This should be fixed in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=9670d58. Unfortunately it won't be easy to backport.
Hm, since this is for F18, it certainly won't be backported. Sorry.
We are on fc19 and the original bug is from fc17. So what backporting?
The fix was applied in systemd-208+ and is pretty invasive. Somebody might port it for systemd-208 in F20, or even for systemd-204 in F19, and I'm not going ot work on a fix for F18. There's just too many bugs of higher priority.