From: "Valentin Vidić" <vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr>
To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Alternate method of running swapon?
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 19:42:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200108184234.GB8238@valentin-vidic.from.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8mac63ApaZ+GqKZQXzJg4kDxGZWDAbVfkZ+dYj2=7w2dQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 01:33:21PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I believe this is the relevant part from the Pastebin:
>
> readlink("/swapfile", 0x7ffefb4c0810, 4096) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> stat("/swapfile", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=2147483648, ...}) = 0
> open("/swapfile", O_RDONLY) = 3
> read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,
> 65536) = 65536
> close(3) = 0
> swapon("/swapfile", 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
Yes, the swapon call fails with this error. You can check the kernel
name with uname -a, but it probably runs a custom build and you can't
reboot with a different one to enable swap functionality.
--
Valentin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-08 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-08 18:09 Alternate method of running swapon? Jeffrey Walton
2020-01-08 18:23 ` Valentin Vidić
2020-01-08 18:33 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-01-08 18:42 ` Valentin Vidić [this message]
2020-01-08 20:08 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-01-08 20:28 ` Valentin Vidić
2020-01-08 18:26 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2020-01-08 22:23 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-01-08 18:31 ` Greg KH
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