I googled and found selected solutions but the are all from many release cycles ago and I wanted to check to get some opinions on whether the problem and solutions are the same this time around. Here's the error:
Code:
Error enabling swap device
UUID=5e200549-4c3f-43ec-9ebc-194d26c983a5: device has not been created
The /etc/fstab on your upgrade partition does not reference a valid swap device.
Press OK to exit the installer
that UUID looks correct according to my fstab, and the swap looks to be working fine for F12:
Code:
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Wed Feb 17 02:27:41 2010
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
UUID=f8a74707-130f-4813-906d-0de4ba061e10 / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=59aba69a-2bbb-43ca-b296-81b7fc16323a /home ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=5e200549-4c3f-43ec-9ebc-194d26c983a5 swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
UUID=3abb7974-6402-4de5-bfd7-f4b3af8f7ca7 /media/data ext4 auto,users,rw,async,relatime 1 3
however... that uuid is missing here:
Code:
[austin@austin-laptop ~]$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 2010-05-26 10:57 3abb7974-6402-4de5-bfd7-f4b3af8f7ca7 -> ../../sda7
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 2010-05-26 10:57 59aba69a-2bbb-43ca-b296-81b7fc16323a -> ../../sda6
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 2010-05-26 10:57 6800e89a-7d8f-4857-9dec-21d052cb788b -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 2010-05-26 10:57 f8a74707-130f-4813-906d-0de4ba061e10 -> ../../sda2
in Palimpsest it looks like the swap space is sda8 but it doesn't tell me the uuid. it is in an extended partition, could that be the problem? did swap get turned off by chance?
thanks in advance for any advice!
---------- Post added at 10:28 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:19 PM CDT ----------
Code:
[austin@austin-laptop ~]$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda8 partition 4192892 0 -1
hmmm.... I am bambuzzled. I could probably try just swaping out the uuid for the path, but I'd like to know what is wrong!
---------- Post added at 10:38 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:28 PM CDT ----------
but it is here:
Code:
[root@austin-laptop austin]# blkid
/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="DellUtility" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: UUID="f8a74707-130f-4813-906d-0de4ba061e10" TYPE="ext4" LABEL="fedora"
/dev/sda6: UUID="59aba69a-2bbb-43ca-b296-81b7fc16323a" TYPE="ext4" LABEL="home"
/dev/sda7: UUID="3abb7974-6402-4de5-bfd7-f4b3af8f7ca7" TYPE="ext4" LABEL="data"
/dev/sda8: UUID="5e200549-4c3f-43ec-9ebc-194d26c983a5" TYPE="swap"
/dev/root: LABEL="fedora" UUID="f8a74707-130f-4813-906d-0de4ba061e10" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="debian" UUID="6800e89a-7d8f-4857-9dec-21d052cb788b" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
I am very confused...
---------- Post added at 10:48 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 10:38 PM CDT ----------
Code:
hal-device | grep sda8 -A 9
linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda8' (string)
info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_WDC_WD2500BEKT_00F3T0_WD_WXM908SP9788' (string)
volume.is_mounted_read_only = false (bool)
volume.linux.is_device_mapper = false (bool)
volume.is_disc = false (bool)
volume.is_partition = true (bool)
block.device = '/dev/sda8' (string)
block.major = 8 (0x8) (int)
block.minor = 8 (0x8) (int)
block.is_volume = true (bool)
volume.block_size = 512 (0x200) (int)
volume.num_blocks = 8385804 (0x7ff50c) (uint64)
info.capabilities = { 'volume', 'block' } (string list)
volume.partition.number = 8 (0x8) (int)
volume.partition.media_size = 250059350016 (0x3a38b2e000) (uint64)
hmm, so maybe swap partitions don't have uuids. but why then is blkid giving me one? and why did I have it in the fstab in the first place?
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