[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#348534: initscripts: error message when using a swapfile (Read-only file system)

[Laurent Bonnaud]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-10
Severity: normal


Hi,

on this system, I use a swapfile instead of a swap partition.  The
/etc/fstab file contains this line:

/swapfile       none            swap    defaults                        0       0

When the system boots, I see the following error message, that is also
logged in /var/log/boot:

Wed Jan  4 11:52:20 2006: .
Wed Jan  4 11:52:20 2006: Setting parameters of disc:  /dev/hdc.
Wed Jan  4 11:52:20 2006: Will now activate swap.
Wed Jan  4 11:52:20 2006: swapon: /swapfile: Read-only file system
Wed Jan  4 11:52:20 2006: ^[[31m*^[[39;49m Swap activation failed with error code 255.
Wed Jan  4 11:52:20 2006: Will now check root file system.
[...]

When the boot is finished, the swap is active:

$ free
[...]
Swap:       524280     301836     222444

so this bug is only cosmetic, but it still deserves to be fixed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (100, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils   2.15.2                     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs     1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6         2.3.5-12                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  lsb-base      3.0-14                     Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii  mount         2.12r-2                    Tools for mounting and manipulatin

initscripts recommends no packages.

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