Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

[Fintan]

After the last update (sun/mon) I shut off my machine for a rest as I was gone all day yesterday. So I booted up today and gutsy refused to find my swap partition with an error something like this:
kinit: b823d8b7-c080-...... not found
kinit: no resume image

b823.... is my swap partition. so I checked my ubuntu tribe install (udated on he same day) and it booted just fine.

So, I changed my fstab in kubuntu tribe from uuid's to the "traditional" /dev/sdax and voila, all my partitions including swap were found and mounted.

No, I did not change, add, edit partitions.

This is more than weird, it is annoying. I just hope I am the only one with this sh...t

[eriefisher]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

I just don't understand the uuid's at all. the dev system was much easier to deal with.

eriefisher

[Fintan]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

Tell me about it. I am seriously thinking of....... No not quite yet. I have put too much time learning this distro

[eriefisher]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

I here you there, but I'm always looking.

Playing around with Slax on another box at the moment. Modular, interesting.

eriefisher

[Fintan]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

Yeah, I played with the live cd. But there is no way this lazy bum is installing slackware :P

I was thinking of mepis, although I am not sure I like thier forum too much. This forum is great...

[dibl]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

I've been keeping an E-Live installation on a hard drive that I don't trust much, just to have something else as "back up". I had to nuke it the other day, though, when I did a major overhaul of my disks and partitioning. I may put it back on here somewhere -- it's kind of a different thing with that Enlightenment desktop. It seems to work with more of my hardware "out of the box" than *buntu does.

[eriefisher]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

I was thinking of mepis, although I am not sure I like thier forum too much. This forum is great...

I use to run 3.3.2 Mepis. I still have the disc. It worked real nice. I played with the pre 7.0 disc a little, Everything is working right out of the box. They have gone back to a pure debian base away from ubuntu. It looks real nice and I think a little bit more flexable.

>dibl<how much did you pay for the elive disc? Haha.

eriefisher

[Fintan]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

>dibl<how much did you pay for the elive disc? Haha.

Yeah, I remember trying to download it. didn't have my CC so it took hours and a few tries.

I just downloaded the last mepis beta 6.9?? Try it tommorrow.

Cheers

[eriefisher]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

I just downloaded the last mepis beta 6.9?? Try it tommorrow.

Cheers

I think your going to like it, I did. I just might install it for a trial run.

eriefisher

[dibl]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

>dibl<how much did you pay for the elive disc? Haha.

I paid $0.00 USD! I downloaded it at 2 bytes per hour, or whatever that slow download gives you. Just start it when you're leaving the house, and when you come back the next day, VOILA!

[penguin.ch]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

I just might install it for a trial run.

It's definitely worth it. (I'm "moving there" ...)

[technogran]

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Well Fintan, my two pence worth is this, a distro becomes rather like a pair of old slippers, and I too have tried Mepis recently, asked it to install on my external drive and it did so, but then when I tried to boot into it, it couldn't find itself!
In contrast, clever Kubuntu despite being in beta, correctly installs on the external drive,and when I choose it from the boot menu, it finds itself!! I personally found the installation used by Mepis to be very confusing and far too complicated for my liking! I have tried others but Kubuntu is still the best (current warts and all!) As for the bluetooth message on log in, I won't use it so I just disable it, till it gets sorted, our network connection probs, easily worked around, and the Nvidia drivers I have not installed them as I am not bothered about 3d etc for now, so will wait until such time as this gets sorted. Whenever I try a different distro, I am always disappointed with something about it, so as I said, Kubuntu is rather like an old pair of slippers, comfortable and suits me.

TG Do let us know what you think of Mepis won't you?

[GANDOLF]

Re: Gutsy and swap, a uuid issue.

I got the same behavior today after the last update. Thank god I read this before and was able to change the swap in fstab uuid=blah, blah to /dev/sdax from the live cd.

I wonder when the gods at kubuntu / ubuntu are going to address this?