[SOLVED] Init - Activating Swap (Failed)

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.
This is not causing any problems from what i can see,
but for sake of tidiness, what has changed,
and shouldn't it - not even try - activating a swap partition when one is not set and/or existing at all?
/etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
UUID=02709134-c074-4e66-8aa6-ed2d43a1cdf4 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=d4b8ac62-9fb2-4798-9ff3-d3e179ff253e /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 /mnt/win7 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/wind ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/winf ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/wine ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc2 /mnt/wint ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/wing ntfs-3g defaults,noauto,nofail 0 0
Last edited by PReP (2012-03-10 11:22:30)

It might actually be.
I just found that a few of my non-UUID mounted partitions had switched around,
Probably because of my switch to AHCI instead of Legacy-IDE in the BIOS yesterday.
When i fixed them, "Activating Swap" went "[DONE]" again, though i still have no swap partition
- but that is what it might have said before aswell, thus it was just the "[FAILED]" that caught my eye.
I found this quote in the thread skunktrader linked, that might explain this partially:
"TomeGun: There was recently a bug report about this (against util-linux-2.21-1). It turned out that the problem was actually that mounting local filesystems mistakenly printed FAILED, even though it succeeded. "
I should probably leave this as solved at this time,
Thanks to the community for sharing ideas, as usual

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Activating Swap "FAILED" while booting + Label swap problem

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
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=122962
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=132309
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2761 2642 118 0 124 1312
-/+ buffers/cache: 1206 1555
Swap: 0 0 0
# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="boot" UUID="5C187AF40E0AEC1C" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="arch" UUID="74bb0a35-feac-468a-a58f-f842c7fd5340" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="disk" UUID="0ACFB85358B278B7" TYPE="ntfs"
/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
# e2label /dev/sda10 swap
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda10
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
# tune2fs -L swap /dev/sda10
tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda10
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
# mke2fs swap /dev/sda10
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
mke2fs: invalid blocks count '/dev/sda10' on device 'swap'
then i tried
# 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)

See in /var/log/boot if it's really "activating swap", not a neighbouring entry, that's failing (someone on the forum made this mistake; your post seems to indicate you're booting without swap indeed).
rc.sysinit (booting script) runs simply "swapon -a", so see if "swapoff -a; swapon -a" works. As the wiki says, you can use mkswap to set a label on swap - running mkswap might solve your problem anyhow, although "swapon /dev/sda10" wouldn't really work if the partition wasn't formatted as swap already.
Do you hibernate?

Activating swap -- fail

Hi. After upgrading to kernel 3 (or that's what I think must have caused it) today, I get a red FAIL when activating swap on boot.
I haven't changed any config related to swap. In any case, here's the relevant line in fstab:
UUID=24346361-6d94-4798-9614-c1ed01980aa4 swap swap defaults 0 0
I checked if the UUID had magically changed but no, it's still the same.
The output of swapon -s is:
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda6 partition 2104476 0 -1
Thank you.
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
UUID="bae85392-689d-4dc3-8a17-64f14537c08c" / ext4 defaults 0 2
UUID="998cb9c2-45af-4442-b521-42d9a4c260c5" /home ext4 defaults 0 2
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000bb3d9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 976768064 488384001 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00088d43
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 976768064 488384001 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 208844 104422 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 208845 738989 265072+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3 738990 41704739 20482875 83 Linux
/dev/sdc4 41704740 625137344 291716302+ 83 Linux
dmesg | grep swap
[ 8.071325] Adding 265068k swap on /dev/sdc2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:265068k
dmesg | grep fail
[ 0.235455] pci0000:00: ACPI _OSC request failed (AE_SUPPORT), returned control mask: 0x0c
swapoff -a
badblocks -nvs /dev/sdc2
Checking for bad blocks in non-destructive read-write mode
From block 0 to 265071
Checking for bad blocks (non-destructive read-write test)
Testing with random pattern: done
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found.

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?

Activating Swap fails [solved]

I'm in the process of doing my very first archlinux install.. so far things are going ok. Ran into one snag that I'd like to solve before going any further though. During the boot process it tries to activate the swap partition but then it says 'fails'. I'm not sure why since I set the swap during the install /hda2.
When I do cfdisk it shows that a swap partition is set up (82) and I can type mkswap dev/hda2 at the command line but is there some way I can remedy this so that swap gets set up automatically at boot? Shouldn't this be default behavior?
thx

I didn't really mess with fstab.. poking inside I find it looks like:
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
/devcdroms/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 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /boot ext2 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 0 1
I wonder why all the /dev/discs show up twice? Could that be it?

[Solved] UEFI. System hangs on boot after successfully activating swap

Alright.
Unnecessary Background:
I've been using Arch for years. I just bought a stupidly good computer with a bunch of specs that I don't think are relevant, except for the fact that I am using an X99-pro. It has RAID support, but I am not using that currently. I bought all the parts and finished constructing it this morning (I live in Japan, so that was a while ago). Normally, I have no problems with installation; however, I wanted to do this one UEFI mode. After booting into the live disk, I checked to make sure everything was working as it should. Arch recognized my graphics card, most of my ram (one of the cards is a bit finicky for some reason), my SSD and HDD, along with the built-in WiFi (although it is an annoying broadcom one, so I need to install the driver separately later). Now, there are plenty of sources of error in here:
Problem:
I got through the arch installation and tried gummiboot. It would hang every time after successfully activating swap. I tried grub, too, but had the same problem. Because gummiboot is much less cumbersome, I switched back to that. Interestingly, systemd will sometimes recognize my drive twice before activating swap, and if I edit my fstab to ignore the swap completely, it hangs on the next step with is mounting the boot partition. I would like to point out that because I am not able to successfully boot my system, I cannot provide the exact messages for you guys, which may pose a problem.
Solutions I have tried:
1. Chrooting / mkinitcpio -p linux
2. modifying fstab / removing swap from it completely
3. fresh re-install
Sources of error:
1. Construction. Everything seems appropriate on the live usb, but maybe there is a problem in which ports I used for the SSD and HDD
2. UEFI. It could be that UEFI just doesn't like mounting multiple things and freezes up when put on the spot.
3. Legacy. It could be that this is not a problem with UEFI or my construction, but something I missed in the installation.
Additional info:
Partitioning scheme:
sda1: ~500MiB boot / EFI partition
sda2: ~4G swap
sda3: ~110G /
sdb: ~2T, untouched (for storage later)
I apologize for any typos and hope it was readable. I am super exhausted and going to take a nap. I'll check back in on this in the morning.
Last edited by Leios (2015-02-08 00:16:27)

Please post the output of:
# gdisk -l /dev/sda
lsblk -f
And the contents of your gummiboot loader.conf and arch.conf (or whatever you've called it).
Post the output of the commands after you have mounted all your partitions and (arch-)chroot'd into your system.
You can use wgetpaste to post the outputs, as described by @ewaller here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p1500528
Alternatively, pipe the command output to a text file and export it (using a live distribution or a USB stick).
You should remove swap from your fstab -- systemd mounts it automatically anyway.

Todev-disk-by\x2duuid.swap failed (according to systemctl )

I entered the following command into terminal and was surprised to receive
$ systemctl --state=failed
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
● dev-disk-by\x2duuid-3ca23094\x2dc604\x2d467c\x2da125\x2dc4f292307545.swap load failed /dev/disk/by-uuid/3ca23094-c604-46
i looked to see if swap failed to load but it seems it loaded fine
swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda4 partition 4092 0 -1
journalctl -b | grep swap
[-@archBox ~]$ dmesg | grep swap
[ 8.610316] Adding 4092k swap on /dev/sda4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:4092k FS
Here are my partitions
[-@archBox ~]$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1
├─sda2 ext4 57f95251-7127-4bd1-a3be-c88f31ae3d94
├─sda3 ext4 47748c67-e4bf-437b-92c5-c974c31198b9 /
├─sda4 swap 3ca23094-c604-467c-a125-c4f292307545 [SWAP]
├─sda5 ext4 051afe80-d1be-4b39-b410-ed3661050177 /var
└─sda6 ext4 4c1e0510-6249-4bae-b2a4-cf9bc5a92e61 /home
Here is my fstab
cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda3
UUID=47748c67-e4bf-437b-92c5-c974c31198b9 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=051afe80-d1be-4b39-b410-ed3661050177 /var ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
# /dev/sda6
UUID=4c1e0510-6249-4bae-b2a4-cf9bc5a92e61 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
# /dev/sda4
UUID=3ca23094-c604-467c-a125-c4f292307545 none swap defaults 0 0
Swap seems to be loading fine ,but systemctl doesnt think so
Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this?
Any help would be very much appreciated !
Last edited by edm7707 (2014-12-22 14:10:16)

Thanks for the response!
Reading through the wiki article, I commented out swap from the fstab, which solved the issue, but I am a bit confused as to why
It says that there are 2 ways the swap partition is activated,
1. systemd-fstab-generator
- Because this way reads the fstab file to activate swap , this executable spawned the failed process
2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator
- This auto generates the swap based on the partition type (83)
the solutions seem to disable either one way other the other for the activating the swap?
Is the resulting failure in systemd the result of trying to activate swap twice?
how do you set the attribute of the swap partition to 63 ( are they referring to partition type in the solutions)?

[Solved] encryption of swap with cryptsetup doesn't work

Hi,
I reinstalled my because of new hardware with EFI and GPT, and now I can't get work my swap partition encrypted.
/etc/cryptsetup:
cryptswap /dev/sda1 /dev/urandom swap
Also with more options (key-length, etc) doesn't change the behavior.
/etc/fstab:
ABEL=system / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
/dev/sda128 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2
/dev/mapper/cryptswap none swap sw 0 0
I tried also without any swap-entry in the /etc/fstab, because my pam_mounted LUKS-encrypted Partitions are working well, without a fstab-entry
Here is the journald-output that might be relevant:
Feb 09 01:25:41 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Found device Hitachi_HDP725025GLA380.
Feb 09 01:25:41 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Activating swap /dev/sda1...
Feb 09 01:25:41 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Starting Cryptography Setup for cryptswap...
Feb 09 01:25:41 dixi-arch kernel: tda829x 0-004b: type set to tda8290+75a
Feb 09 01:25:41 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Activated swap /dev/sda1.
Feb 09 01:25:41 dixi-arch kernel: Adding 2097148k swap on /dev/sda1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2097148k FS
Feb 09 01:25:42 dixi-arch kernel: device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
Feb 09 01:25:42 dixi-arch kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: 4.26.0-ioctl (2013-08-15) initialised: [email protected]
Feb 09 01:25:42 dixi-arch systemd-cryptsetup[251]: Set cipher aes, mode cbc-essiv:sha256, key size 256 bits for device /dev/sda1.
Feb 09 01:25:42 dixi-arch systemd-cryptsetup[251]: Failed to activate with key file '/dev/urandom': Device or resource busy
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd-cryptsetup[251]: Loading of cryptographic parameters failed: Invalid argument
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd-cryptsetup[251]: Failed to activate: Invalid argument
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd[1]: [email protected]: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Failed to start Cryptography Setup for cryptswap.
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Encrypted Volumes.
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Dependency failed for dev-mapper-cryptswap.device.
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /dev/mapper/cryptswap.
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Swap.
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Unit [email protected] entered failed state.
Feb 09 01:26:16 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Starting System Initialization.
Feb 09 01:26:35 dixi-arch systemd-cryptsetup[602]: Key file /dev/urandom is world-readable. This is not a good idea!
Feb 09 01:26:35 dixi-arch systemd-cryptsetup[602]: Set cipher aes, mode cbc-essiv:sha256, key size 256 bits for device /dev/sda1.
Feb 09 01:26:35 dixi-arch systemd-cryptsetup[602]: Failed to activate with key file '/dev/urandom': Device or resource busy
During the boot sequence the PC stops working and I have to press enter to keep going. Finally i have these errors and a non-encrypted Swap-Device.
blkid:
/dev/sda1: LABEL="swap" UUID="6013541f-7809-4b5f-9702-e630e25fd144" TYPE="swap" PARTLABEL="Linux swap" PARTUUID="9849ee0b-e0d7-4d28-866c-fb7d0134a182"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="system" UUID="4bf8a95c-bf43-4980-92dd-b0eb6dc07093" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="6fc2bd3d-7241-4a88-8137-9985a333e3de"
/dev/sda3: UUID="445eba44-3536-4b99-a0a6-e3629cf90654" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="6b84a546-9873-496c-a7e1-721824023d07"
/dev/sda4: UUID="466b5d04-7b81-4914-b5af-7e2426b801bf" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTLABEL="Linux filesystem" PARTUUID="dfdf5217-7028-4a10-ae18-3a63450c3231"
/dev/sda128: UUID="9D36-7245" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System" PARTUUID="9df97a9a-3f5e-487b-a3d1-60825031b537"
/dev/mapper/_dev_sda3: LABEL="dixi-home" UUID="23548045-1c6f-4640-8c62-0f3c48c05f38" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/_dev_sda4: LABEL="backup" UUID="cbed9ef3-db0b-4750-bf6c-8c42a67ad080" TYPE="ext4"
and theres is no /dev/mapper/cryptswab, what I had expexted
swapon:
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/sda1 partition 2G 0B -1
fdisk -l:
Gerät Start Ende Größe Typ
/dev/sda1 2048 4196351 2G Linux swap
/dev/sda2 4196352 109053951 50G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 109053952 381683711 130G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4 381683712 486299982 49,9G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda128 486301696 488397134 1023,2M EFI System
There are some Bug-Reports for fedora, I don't understand, but maybe the problem is, that cryptsetup can't read /dev/urandom.
But this works with my old mbr-partition; therefore I hope for a configuration error
Thanks
Last edited by midixinga (2014-02-09 23:46:06)

falconindy wrote:
Looks to me like /dev/sda1 is already a swap device. Since the underlying disk is GPT formatted, systemd finds this and activates it. Your logs and swapon show exactly this.
Feb 09 01:25:41 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Activating swap /dev/sda1...
So, of course, systemd-cryptsetup is going to fail when it tries to encrypt a device which is already in use. Get rid of the swap signature on /dev/sda1.
Wow, thank you very much !
I formatted the partition /dev/sda1 with gparted as "deleted", it's now code 0700 in gdisk
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 27980DF8-22E1-4F25-9388-711D1EDE11A9
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 4196351 2G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda2 4196352 109053951 50G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 109053952 381683711 130G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4 381683712 486299982 49.9G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda128 486301696 488397134 1023.2M EFI System
Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap: 2 GiB, 2147483648 bytes, 4194304 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/dm-0 partition 2097148 0 -1
journalctl:
Feb 09 16:54:09 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Starting Cryptography Setup for cryptswap...
Feb 09 16:54:09 dixi-arch systemd-cryptsetup[271]: Key file /dev/urandom is world-readable. This is not a good idea!
Feb 09 16:54:09 dixi-arch systemd-cryptsetup[271]: Set cipher aes, mode cbc-essiv:sha256, key size 256 bits for device /dev/sda1.
Feb 09 16:54:10 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Started Cryptography Setup for cryptswap.
Feb 09 16:54:10 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Starting Encrypted Volumes.
Feb 09 16:54:10 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Reached target Encrypted Volumes.
Feb 09 16:54:10 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Found device /dev/mapper/cryptswap.
Feb 09 16:54:10 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Activating swap /dev/mapper/cryptswap...
Feb 09 16:54:10 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Activated swap /dev/mapper/cryptswap.
Feb 09 16:54:10 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Starting Swap.
Feb 09 16:54:10 dixi-arch systemd[1]: Reached target Swap.
I think everything is fine now
Thanks again

'-' is in RSKC but activation still fails

Hi All,
As subject already explains we have hyphens '-' in our data and activation fails due to invalid character issue. Hyphens are in special character list in RSKC.
Pemitted extra characters: '~@#$^`{}[]\ $/!"%&()+-./:;<=>?_0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZW'
Does anyone know how to allow - in data in order to solve the activation issue?
I appreciate any help.
Mike
Edited by: mike curtis on Jun 29, 2010 8:00 PM

Here is the whole log
Value '002336a8-36e7-4491-9a7c-0df2439c' (hex. '30303233333661382D333665372D343439312D396137632D30') of characteristic ZPA_SID contains invalid characters
Message no. BRAIN060
Diagnosis
Only the following standard characters are valid in characteristic values by default:
!"%&''()*+,-./:;<=>?_0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.
Furthermore, characteristic values that only consist of the character # or that begin with ! are not valid.
You are trying to load the invalid characteristic value 1. (hexidecimal representation 30303233333661382D333665372D343439312D396137632D30).
Procedure for System Administration
Try to change the invalid characters to valid characters.
If you want values that contain invalid characters to be admitted into the system, make the appropriate setting in BW Customizing. Refer to the documentation describing the requirements for special characters and the possible consequences.
For more information on the problems involved with valid and invalid characters, click here.
Also .....
Error when assigning SID: Action VAL_SID_CONVERT, InfoObject ZPA_SID
We do have a report on this DSO

Installing Repository, but Operation 'close' on ACTIVITY has failed

Hi all!
I've installed Oracle 9.0.1.1.1 on my Windows 2000 machine. After that, i've installed Oracle
Developer Suite, and the run the Repository Administration Utility, and I created a repository.
Before that, I created the tablespace and the user for the repository, with rights, so:
CREATE TABLESPACE "REPOSITORY"
LOGGING
DATAFILE 'F:\ORACLE9I\ORADATA\ORACLE\REPOSITORY.ora' SIZE
300M AUTOEXTEND
ON NEXT 20M MAXSIZE UNLIMITED EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL
CREATE USER "REPADMIN" PROFILE "DEFAULT"
IDENTIFIED BY "oracle" DEFAULT TABLESPACE "REPOSITORY"
ACCOUNT UNLOCK;
GRANT "CONNECT" TO "REPADMIN";
GRANT "DBA" TO "REPADMIN";
ALTER USER "REPADMIN" DEFAULT ROLE ALL;
grant execute on dbms_lock to repadmin;
grant execute on dbms_pipe to repadmin;
grant create table to repadmin;
grant create view to repadmin;
grant create procedure to repadmin;
grant create synonym to repadmin;
grant create sequence to repadmin;
grant select on sys.v_$nls_parameters to repadmin with grant option;
grant select on sys.v_$parameter to repadmin;
grant select on dba_rollback_segs to repadmin;
grant select on dba_segments to repadmin;
grant create any synonym to repadmin;
grant drop any synonym to repadmin;
grant create public synonym to repadmin;
grant drop public synonym to repadmin;
grant create role to repadmin;
grant create trigger to repadmin;
grant create type to repadmin;
grant select any sequence to repadmin;
grant unlimited tablespace to repadmin;
My temp tablespace is autoextend, too...
If i want to give a user some rights, or in the Repository Object Navigator, i
try to 'Invoke Workarea Wizard' and 'Create a default Workarea' I've got the
following error message:
Message
RME-00020: Internal API error - ORA-00600: belsu hiba ksd,
argumentumai: [25012], [2147483647], [0], [], [],
RME-00011: Operation 'close' on ACTIVITY has failed
RME-00222: Failed to dispatch operation to Repository
RME-00224: Failed to close activity
Any idea, how to solve it?
Thanks:
Zsolt Sandor

Zsolt,
The {600} error is reporting an issue with the database.
What version of iDS have you installed? All the latest versions will require an 8.1.7 or 9.0.1.3 database.
I suggest you get the latest patch for the database and bring it up to 9.0.1.3.
regards,
David Brown
SCM Product Management

TCP active open: Failed connect() Error: Connection timed out SMTP

Hi,
Messaging server version is,
./imsimta version
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)
libimta.so 6.2-6.01 (built 11:20:35, Apr 3 2006)
SunOS bglbbmr1-a-fixed 5.9 Generic_118558-28 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
17-Dec-2008 10:47:40.08 1730.8e.741
tcp_local Q 4 [email protected] rfc822;[email protected] [email protected] /mta/queue/queue/tcp_local/013/ZUg0i1t9I0ZG~.00 <[email protected]>; TCP active open: Failed connect() Error: Connection timed out SMTP/xyz.my-domain.in
I have been getting this above error on my mail server from last
4-5 days. I am getting complaints from end users that the users can't
send any mails using Outlook but I did check with my test user I can
send mail by using webmail.
The Failed MX lookup Errors also getting in my logs the error detail given bellow.
17-Dec-2008 10:47:39.65 1730.91.737
tcp_local - Y TCP|0.0.0.0||209.85.143.114|25 SMTP/airtelmail.in/aspmx.l.google.com
17-Dec-2008 10:47:39.92 1754.41.255
tcp_notify - Y SMTP/infomedia18.in/infomedia18.in
17-Dec-2008 10:47:39.92 1754.41.256
tcp_notify Q 7 rfc822;[email protected] [email protected] /mta/queue/queue/tcp_notify/017/ZXg0i1t3U_ZoD.00 <[email protected]>; Failed MX lookup; try again later
17-Dec-2008 10:47:39.94 1754.41.257
tcp_notify Q 6 rfc822;[email protected] [email protected] /mta/queue/queue/tcp_notify/010/ZXg0i1t3U_ZoF.00 <0KBZ003MRGU7MQ30@my-domain> Failed MX lookup; try again later
I tried stopping and starting msg service using stop-msg and start-msg to sort out this above problem but no result. :(
When I do check the tcp_local queue it has been growing every day as well the tcp_notification queue also.
/opt/SUNWmsgsr/sbin/imsimta qm su
Messages
Channel Queued Size (Kb) Oldest
tcp_notify 10741 1080610.61 16 Dec, 00:59:24
tcp_local 8334 733849.31 15 Dec, 00:19:00
tcp_lmtpcn 0 0.00
tcp_be 0 0.00
reprocess 0 0.00
process 0 0.00
conversion 0 0.00
Totals 19075 1814459.92
This queues are increasing day by day.
One more thing is that I cant see a service/channel called CONVERSION running on my server when i do use this command.
ps -aef | grep conversion
root 6144 6000 0 11:14:28 pts/1 0:00 grep conversion
When i try to start it using imsimta qm utility, output shows as
qm.maint>; start conversion
QM-I-STARTED, channel was not stopped
qm.maint>;
Later I stopped and started conversion channel
qm.maint>; stop conversion
QM-I-STOPPED, channel stopped
qm.maint>; start conversion
QM-I-STARTED, channel started
qm.maint>;
I can see that on other servers the conversion channel is running and few msges are in queue. I do have other servers which running the same messaging server. But I am not getting why don't on this server. Where both servers having the same configuration.
Please, help me to sort out this issue.
Thanks in advance....
BSK

Thanks Mr. Shane,
The server which is running conversion channel.
ps -eaf|grep conversion
mailserv 16824 8472 3 17:08:11 ? 0:48 /opt/SUNWmsgsr/lib/conversion
mailserv 28728 8472 0 17:17:30 ? 0:00 /opt/SUNWmsgsr/lib/conversion
root 1057 26387 0 17:18:12 pts/1 0:00 grep conversion
more /opt/SUNWmsgsr/config/conversions
in-channel=*; in-type=application; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
in-channel=*; in-type=x-zip-compressed; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
in-channel=*; in-type=image; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
in-channel=*; in-type=audio; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
in-channel=*; in-type=video; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
Following entry from /opt/SUNWmsgsr/lib/config-templates/imta_tailor
IMTA_CONVERSION_FILE=<msg.RootPathUNIX>/config/conversions
The server which doesnt show running conversion channel
#more /opt/SUNWmsgsr/config/conversions
!in-channel=*; in-type=*; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
! parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
! dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
! message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
! override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
! command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
in-channel=*; in-type=application; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
in-channel=*; in-type=x-zip-compressed; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
in-channel=*; in-type=image; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
in-channel=*; in-type=audio; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
in-channel=*; in-type=video; in-subtype=*; in-disposition=*;
parameter-symbol-0=NAME; parameter-copy-0=*;
dparameter-symbol-0=FILENAME; dparameter-copy-0=*;
message-header-file=2; original-header-file=1;
override-header-file=1; override-option-file=1;
command="/opt/SUNWmsgsr/private/virusscan.sh"
Following entry from /opt/SUNWmsgsr/lib/config-templates/imta_tailor
IMTA_CONVERSION_FILE=<msg.RootPathUNIX>/config/conversions
Is this above information u r asking?
As u wrote erlier, the conversion channel works some times and some times doesn't work.
Thanks lot...
BSKADAM

"24427 Access to Active Directory failed" error in ACS 5.1

Hello,
I'm working on implementing a RADIUS authentication for wireless access with the following :
- PCs running Windows 7, protocol used is PEAP (without validating the server certificate to make it simple at first),
- AP 1252 configured to use a RADIUS server to authenticate (it's working good with an ACS server 4.2),
- ACS Server 5.1.0.44.5 running as VM connected to an AD domain and working good with VPN connections,
- AD domain running on Windows 2003 Server.
My ACS VM is working good since a couple of months for VPN (RADIUS) and administration (TACACS) remote access, both using Active Directory. Now, I'd like to use it to authenticate people connecting to a 1252 Cisco access point but I'm getting this error "24427 Access to Active Directory failed". I switched from PEAP to LEAP but this is the same.
All I can get running the expert troubleshoot
Investigating failure code: 24427 Access to Active Directory failed
Checking if Active Directory is configured
Active Directory is configured
Attempting connection to Active Directory
Connection to Active Directory was successful.
Troubleshooting completed.
Click on Show Results Summary to view results.
I followed this guide, at least for the ACS certificate section :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10315/products_configuration_example09186a0080b4cdb9.shtml
Anyone has an idea where the problem may come from?
Thanks in advance,
Vincent

hey there, I ran into the same issue with 5.3 and it turned out being this bug. i came across your post looking for instructions on retrieving the logs. thanks mate.
link
Problem: Error "24495 Active Directory servers are not available"
Authentication starts failing with this error: 24495 Active Directory servers are not available. in the ACS 5.3 logs.
Solution
Check the ACSADAgent.log file through the CLI of the ACS 5.x for messages such as:Mar 11 00:06:06 xlpacs01 adclient[30401]: INFO base.bind.healing Lost connection to xxxxxxxx. Running in disconnected mode: unlatch. If you see the Running in disconnected mode: unlatch error message, this means the ACS 5.3 cannot maintain a stable connection with Active Directory. The workaround is to either switch to LDAP or downgrade the ACS to 5.2 version. Refer to Cisco bug ID CSCtx71254 (registered customers only) for more information.

Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.135 Active X failing

Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.135 Active X failing through SCCM 2007. Tried to use uninstaller but that too is failing... i am trying to push this to 3500 machine but on 1700 machine Adobe flash player is not getting installed and the error message which we are getting is stated below, please suggest:
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Error 2753.The File 'InstallAX.exe' is not marked for installation.

The two links (which I have asked the moderators to remove) do not actually go to image files, as they would appear to, but instead point to files that are identified by at least a few anti-virus engines as Windows malware. This is not a legitimate message.
Can you clarify where you are seeing this message? You say it appears every time you open a website... do you mean that it appears any time you open Safari, or every time you load a new page on any site you get a popup with that message, or what? If you could provide a screenshot of the message that would be exceptionally helpful.
Make a screenshot by pressing command-shift-3 to capture the entire screen, or pressing command-shift-4 and then selecting a region on the screen to capture. Be sure no sensitive personal information is displayed. To add that image to a post here, click the camera icon in the post editor toolbar.

SpamAssassin / Amavisd tuning - TCP active open: Failed connect() errors

I started this post as we were experiencing a problem with occassional delayed mail delivery to our mail store. As I continued writing it, I think that I've resolved it. But I wanted to post this anyway so if I'm doing things right it might help someone else; or, if I'm doing something wrong someone can correct me. :) For reference, we have a quad Sun v440, and process about 500,000 messages a day.
We were seeing messages like this in our log files:
09-Nov-2006 08:28:09.37 tcp_scan Q 1 [email protected] rfc822;[email protected] @tcp_scan-daemon:[email protected] TCP active open: Failed connect() Error: Connection timed out
example.com represents our local domain. The errors seemed to occur proportionally to the amount of incoming mail we received. That is, we saw more of them under load.
We are running SpamAssassin, Amavisd/clamav, and:
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-5.01 (built Nov 22 2005)
libimta.so 6.2-5.01 (built 11:57:57, Nov 22 2005)
SunOS hostname 5.9 Generic_118558-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
This line seems to say that the message is in the tcp_scan channel, and cannot send to 127.0.0.1:10024 (amavisd) because that port isn't listening.
My amavisd max_servers was set at 15. After reading http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/amavisd-new-magdeburg-20050519.pdf and making a wild guess, I increased it to 30. The errors were less frequent, but still occurred.
The output of 'sar -d' showed that my local disk was experiencing upwards of 80% utilization. I moved the amavisd temp directory and the spamassassin bayes db to a san volume, and that sped everything up dramatically. The connect errors went away, clamav avg time per message is at 4 seconds down from 10. I am now receiving errors from spamassassin that say:
Nov 9 10:27:27 hostname.example.com spamd[21601]: prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it
My --max-children is set to 25 right now, and the server is cpu bound under heavy load, so I see no reason to raise it.
So this is my setup. I am no longer having an immediate problem, but comments/questions are welcome.
Config files related to my setup are below.
Excerpts of imta.cnf:
! tcp_scan
[] $E$R${tcp_scan,$L}$U%[$L]@tcp_scan-daemon
! ims-ms
ims-ms defragment subdirs 20 notices 1 7 14 21 28 backoff "pt5m" "pt10m" "pt30m" "pt1h" "pt2h" "pt4h" maxjobs 2 pool IMS_POOL destinat
ionspamfilter1 fileinto $U+$S@$D
ims-ms-daemon
! tcp_local
tcp_local smtp mx single_sys remotehost inner switchchannel identnonenumeric subdirs 20 maxjobs 7 pool SMTP_POOL saslswitchchannel tcp
auth maytlsserver maysaslserver missingrecipientpolicy 0 aliasdetourhost tcpscan-daemon
tcp-daemon
! tcp_intranet
tcp_intranet smtp mx single_sys subdirs 20 dequeue_removeroute maxjobs 7 pool SMTP_POOL allowswitchchannel saslswitchchannel tcp_auth
maytlsserver maysaslserver missingrecipientpolicy 4 aliasdetourhost tcp_scan-daemon
tcp_intranet-daemon
! tcp_scan
tcp_scan smtp single_sys subdirs 5 notices 1 backoff "pt10m" "pt30m" "pt2h" "pt4h" dequeue_removeroute maxjobs 7 pool SMTP_POOL daemon
[127.0.0.1] port 10024
tcp_scan-daemon
option.dat:
SPAMFILTER1_LIBRARY=/opt/sunjes/SUNWmsgsr/lib/libspamass.so
SPAMFILTER1_CONFIG_FILE=/opt/sunjes/SUNWmsgsr/config/SpamAssassin
SPAMFILTER1_STRING_ACTION=data:,require ["addheader"]; addheader "Spam-test: $U"; require "fileinto"; fileinto "Junk";
SPAMFILTER1_OPTIONAL=1
dispatcher.cnf:
[SERVICE=SMTP-SCAN]
DEBUG=-1
PARAMETER=CHANNEL=tcp_scan
PORT=10025
IMAGE=IMTA_BIN:tcp_smtp_server
LOGFILE=IMTA_LOG:tcp_scan-server.log
STACKSIZE=2048000
INTERFACE_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1
SpamAssassin:
host=127.0.0.1
port=783
debug=0
mode=1
field=
verdict=Junk
USE_CHECK=0

Suggest dropping Amavis in preference to the built-in
integration, per our documentation. Simpler, more
performant.Sorry, my title wasn't very accurate. We are running SpamAssassin through the built in integration, and clamav through amavisd. There isn't any built in integration to clamav, is there?

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hi all,
i receive error from my email like
"TCP active open: Failed connect()x.x.x.x :25(No formatted text for errno = 111)"

Hi Mustapah,
if the error is in the email, then the hostname and/or IP address of the reporting server/appliance should be in there.
I suggest you try to look up the message in message tracking of your IronPort's GUI, this will tell you if the message was received by your appliance(s), and also if it was bounced on the appliance or on a different server.
Hope that helps,
Andreas

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