During boot up get message "Activating SWAP [FAILED]&qu

I've just re-compiled my kernel (mainly for the fun of it) and after a few false starts almost everything appears to be working as before. The one remaining oddity is that during boot up I get a FAIL message for "Activating SWAP". I would have thought this would be fairly fatal but in fact the rest of the boot up completes OK adn the PC appears to run fine. I had a look at 'dmesg' and the only reference to swap is
Adding 262576k swap on /dev/discs/disc0/part2. Priority:-1 extents:1
which I guess means some kind of swap does get created, but perhaps its not the right one? BTW, here's the /etc/fstab
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
Any ideas?

paranoos wrote:... you've got two entries in your fstab for your swap partition. the second one is failing.
yep, remove
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
I had this problem when i installed arch to, is it the installer that does it?

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Hello everybody
I noticed when I was powering on my system that I had a red label "FAILED" next to 'Activating Swap'.
i looked at :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pe … ice_naming
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103997
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Filename Type Size Used Priority
# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2761 2642 118 0 124 1312
-/+ buffers/cache: 1206 1555
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# blkid
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/dev/sda10: UUID="62c63c59-8dc0-4b84-8752-0801a0ae9657" TYPE="swap"
# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
LABEL=arch / ext4 defaults 0 1
#LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda10 swap swap defaults 0 0
LABEL=disk /media/disk ntfs defaults 0 0
here i tried to label the /dev/sda10 : swap =>
http://linux.about.com/od/ptn_howto/a/hwtptn07t00.htm
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# swapon /dev/sda10
# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2761 2608 153 0 157 1290
-/+ buffers/cache: 1161 1600
Swap: 2998 0 2998
i dont understand why i got always "FAILED" next to 'Activating Swap' while booting.... !!
Last edited by hael (2012-01-01 11:18:07)

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Last edited by bruno321 (2011-08-10 01:32:27)

sorry but I want to jump in here while the thread is still active. I'm having the same problem however my swap is on an internal disk.
here are my outputs
UUID="02397e53-621d-4d5b-b111-45718b408245" /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID="29f4648a-ca89-4b44-a871-c9c786c05c3c" swap swap defaults 0 0
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Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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I just updated my system,
and after a recent reboot i noticed the init trying to activate swap, and failing.
Thing is, i don't use a swap partition, and hasn't since i installed Arch on this machine,
But i don't remember it (init, udev or the recent kernel?) trying anyways.
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