19089 – The systems claims to swap on and off, even without a swap partition

Bug 19089 - The systems claims to swap on and off, even without a swap partition

Summary: The systems claims to swap on and off, even without a swap partition

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-04-10 14:01 UTC by Jan Henrik Helmers
Modified:	2003-04-27 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jan Henrik Helmers 2003-04-10 14:01:55 UTC

I don't have a swap partition, but when booting, and powering off, it still says
"activating swap", "activating(possibly) more swap" and something similar when
powering off. Could this be made a runlevel or somehow removed in a "safe" way;
without hacking the system files?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Touch power button
2.Wait
3.Stare at messages fly by

ALSO

1.Type "poweroff" in console with "root" permissions
2.Wait
3.Stare at console messages
Actual Results:  
It claimed to swap on and off, it even said [OK].

Expected Results:  
Stopped trying to swap on/off, or told me that I didn't have a swap partition,
or preferable be something I could remove(rc-update del swap boot).

This is my first bug report, so I hope I didn't do _everything_ wrong. o.O

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-10 15:57:03 UTC

Its cosmetic, and it shows ok, because 'swapon -a' without swap do not
fail.

Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-27 13:06:19 UTC

Changed activation messages to be a bit more 'generic'.  It will no longer
do the swapoff stuff if no devices/files was activated.

This will be in next unstable baselayout.