no swap on bootup and system locking up

Baracuda · 05-31-2008, 04:29 PM

recently i upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04. Before doing so I had some problems with the system slowing down and not being able to do anything for a minute or two.

Since the upgrade I realized I needed a bigger swap partition. I used gparted to expand the partition. Afterwards i ran mkswap and swapon. Now when I boot there is not swap mounted. I have to rerun swapon. How do I get the system to boot with the swap mounted?

I have used system monitor to try to get a hold on what is causing the system to lock up. Before the upgrade i could trace it to insufficient swap. Now it is locking up so I cannot even switch to the monitor to see what is happening. I hear the hard drive in action but the system locks for as long as I let it go before hitting the reset button. What can I do to test the system to see what is happening?

Thanks

jailbait · 05-31-2008, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Baracuda

Since the upgrade I realized I needed a bigger swap partition. I used gparted to expand the partition. Afterwards i ran mkswap and swapon. Now when I boot there is not swap mounted. I have to rerun swapon. How do I get the system to boot with the swap mounted?

Check and make sure that you have an entry for swap in /etc/fstab.

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Steve Stites

syg00 · 05-31-2008, 07:06 PM

The mkswap will have changed the UUID - update fstab appropriately.

As for the other, come up in recovery mode - that way you'll see all the messages. Might give you an idea of any problems.