error enabling swap device

windstory · 08-08-2012, 01:56 AM

My box is scientific linux 6.0 and I got an error message when I try to uprade.

"error enabling swap device"

I attatched two pictures showing error message and "/etc/fstab".

Please let me know hot to resolve this error.

Thanks in advance.

sharadchhetri · 08-08-2012, 02:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by windstory

My box is scientific linux 6.0 and I got an error message when I try to uprade.

"error enabling swap device"

I attatched two pictures showing error message and "/etc/fstab".

Please let me know hot to resolve this error.

Thanks in advance.

try
swapon -a

sharadchhetri · 08-08-2012, 02:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sharadchhetri

try
swapon -a

check is uuid correct.
swapon -s
you will get in which partition swap is there

then

use blkid , by this you will get uuid

windstory · 08-08-2012, 03:17 AM

sharadchhetri/

Ths result is this picture.

And I restarted my box, but I got black screen.

chrism01 · 08-08-2012, 07:26 PM

If you x-ref the UUIDs from the fstab and the last output, you'll see the one for swap is missing & there's a new partition sda4 with a new UUID starting 22...
Looks like you've overwritten the swap partition to be a std Linux one.
Try

Code:

fdisk -l

lowercase 'L' switch there.