Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f42G3gZ11702 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Wed, 2 May 2001 09:03:42 -0700 Received: from UberGeek.coremetrics.com ([209.184.141.163]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f42G3eF11699 for ; Wed, 2 May 2001 09:03:41 -0700 Received: from localhost (austin@localhost) by UberGeek.coremetrics.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f42G1fU10799; Wed, 2 May 2001 11:01:41 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: UberGeek.coremetrics.com: austin owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:01:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Austin Gonyou To: Eric Sandeen cc: David Benigni , Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan , Subject: Re: swapon error In-Reply-To: <3AEF6F01.1EF38AE4@sgi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk There are 2 sections in rc.sysinit which call swapon -a. The last one, line 628 or something like that, maybe it was 648, anyway, just comment that out, Swap has already been enabled. -- Austin Gonyou Systems Architect, CCNA Coremetrics, Inc. Phone: 512-796-9023 email: austin@coremetrics.com On Tue, 1 May 2001, Eric Sandeen wrote: > David Benigni wrote: > > > > I don't know if it is on not. I'm assuming so, because after on the second > > boot, I still get the error but says it started "ok." > > That's because they call "swapon -a" and then pass /bin/true to the part > of the script that generates "ok" > > Your system could be melting, and that particular line of the boot > scripts would still generate a cheery green > > [OK] > > :) > > -Eric > >