unable to access resume device (LABEL=SWAP=hda3)

Since my latest update of the kernel and suspend2 kernel , I have a serious suspend problem.

My swap partition is not mounting automaticly. Even when I boot the older kernel the swap partition is not mounted.

So I removed the swap partition and recreated it. Formatted it as swap.

swapon does work.

I labeld my new swap as /dev/hda3.

my fstab contains :
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0

cat /proc/swaps:
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda3 partition 2097136 0 -1

My grub.conf:
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
password --md5 $1$2NmEN1$JsCY3zd3znmK5NXVHHpyC.
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2174_1.rhfc5.cubbi_suspend2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_1.rhfc5.cubbi_suspend2 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=0x31B rhgb quiet resume2=swap:/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2174_1.rhfc5.cubbi_suspend2.img



After I manualy mount the swap space, I can use the pm-hibernate, but when powering on my laptop again I receive the same message..... even when I have not labled the swap as SWAP-hda3 is receive the message with SWAP-hda3 in it......
And the swapspace is not mounted....

Anybody a clue??

additional info: In /etc/lvm/.cache was SWAP-hda3 mentioned. I did a lvmdiskscan and then the entry was renamed. But with a reboot after the nash started there was still a message unable to access resume device [LABEL=SWAP-hda3]..... I do not have a clue what script/program is giving that.
I am now running a: find . -exec grep -i swap-hda3 {} \; from the root.

Does nobody have a clue?

I faced with one problem, when I've tried to create a swap partition manually. The swap should have special marker on it, overwise kernel cannot recognize them as a swap. It can be labeled by mkswap (man mkswap). Probably, it might help you to solve the problem

After a reboot, my swapfile is still there. So that problem is gone. What stays is the message :
unable to access resume device [LABEL=SWAP-hda3]

It means that my resume does not work anymore.

I have no clue on where to look for. My find gave me no files that contains the label SWAP-hda3.....

But i don't understand, why you won't to write the label 'SWAP-hda3' on the swap partition

Thanks to http://mhensler.de/swsusp/ the problem is solved.

The boot image was created wron because I updated the wrong mkinitrd.

I installed the correct one and created a new boot image.
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg-suspend2 --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --suspend2-version=20208 --suspend2-userui=auto --install 2.6.17-1.2174_1.rhfc5.cubbi_suspend2

And now my suspend and resume works again.....

Thank you for your "problem solved" reply. That link to http://mhensler.de/swsusp/ was very useful.

Thanks,
Sateesh

i am a newbie, can't figure out what to do with the above link. anybody can specify the steps?

This worked for me! Hope someone gets something out of this.

common errors
kernel panic
Red Hat nash ver 5.1.19.6 Starting.
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
No Volume groups found
Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
Unable to access resume device ( /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 )
Mount: could not find filesystem /dev/root
Setuproot:moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
Setuproot:error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
Setuproot:error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Switchroot:mount failed: No such file or directory

In such case we should boot with a rescue cd

then as usual :# chroot /mnt/sysimage
then move the old initrd file from /boot folder and create a new one with the following command.

#/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23-currentversion.fc8.img 2.6.23-currentversion.fc8

Reboot the machine with the same kernel.

Regards
Thomas

I hit this problem while swapping motherboard+CPU (Athlon X2 instead of Sempron) for Fedora 10 box. After the hardware change (could be caused because the old motherboard had 2 IDE channels and the new one has only 1 ? the boot disk is connected via IDE.) the system reported the dreaded "Unable to access resume device" message. Booting from Fedora 10 install DVD into rescue mode, chroot to /mnt/sysimage and mkinitrd fixed the problem.

I've been using suspend2 or TuxOnIce for some time and with recent changes, I find it best to use a much simpler kernel append for designation of swap:

resume=/dev/sda2, in my case...

Thanks to all the posters above. I've been struggling with this for a while, following unsuccessfully the mkinitrd suggestions. So I ignored it long enough before it became unbearable and tried Nord's suggestion. This worked.

Steps:
/sbin/swapoff -a
/sbin/mkswap -L SWAP-sda7 /dev/sda7
Edit /etc/fstab to change the label from "swap" to "SWAP-sda7"
/sbin/swapon -a

Reboot. No error message.

Thanks again.