guix system error: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda2": Invalid argument

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  • Julien Lepiller
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znavko wrote on 28 Nov 2018 08:24
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Guix is not possible to start swap device/dev/sda2. I noticed this:

# guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
...
guix system: error: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'swap-/dev/sda2':
In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda2": Invalid argument...

# cat /etc/config.scm
...
(operating-system (host-name "antelope") (timezone "Europe/Moscow") (locale "en_US.utf8")
  (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                (bootloader grub-bootloader)
                (target "/dev/sda")))
  (file-systems (cons (file-system
                        (device "/dev/sda1") (mount-point "/") (type "ext4"))
                      %base-file-systems))
  (swap-devices '("/dev/sda2"))

  (users (cons* (user-account (name "bob") (group "users")......

I've read manual and I do not know what is wrong:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/guix.texi?id=1c6c0ad067b558fcbebd87e8cb51d342d808163e#n6878 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/doc/guix.texi?id=1c6c0ad067b558fcbebd87e8cb51d342d808163e#n6878


# free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           1880        1187          44         181         649         701
Swap:             0           0           0


Swap really did not worked ever in my Guix installation. Let me know what ought to be done?
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znavko wrote on 28 Nov 2018 08:34
Re: bug#33537: Acknowledgement (guix system error: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda2": Invalid argument)
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znavko wrote on 28 Nov 2018 08:30
Re: guix system error: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda2": Invalid argument
(name . Bug Guix)(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
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# fdisk -l
...
Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1            2048 230000000 229997953 109.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       230000640 234441647   4441008   2.1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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Julien Lepiller wrote on 28 Nov 2018 09:01
Re: bug#33537: Acknowledgement (guix system error: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda2": Invalid argument)
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Just to be sure, could you run "mkswap /dev/sda2"?

Le 28 novembre 2018 08:34:33 GMT+01:00, znavko@tutanota.com a écrit :
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znavko wrote on 28 Nov 2018 10:27
(name . Julien Lepiller)(address . julien@lepiller.eu)(name . 33537)(address . 33537@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Thank you, Julien Lepiller! That exactly was what I need!


Nov 28, 2018, 11:01 AM by julien@lepiller.eu:

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> Just to be sure, could you run "mkswap /dev/sda2"?
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 28 Nov 2018 14:27
Re: bug#33537: guix system error: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda2": Invalid argument
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Hi,

<znavko@tutanota.com> skribis:

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> # guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
> ...
> guix system: error: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'swap-/dev/sda2':
> In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda2": Invalid argument...

According to swapon(2), there are 3 conditions that can lead to this
error:

EINVAL The file path exists, but refers neither to a regular file nor to a
block device;

EINVAL (swapon()) The indicated path does not contain a valid swap signature
or resides on an in-memory filesystem such as tmpfs(5).

EINVAL (since Linux 3.4)
(swapon()) An invalid flag value was specified in flags.

Did you run “mkswap /dev/sda2” beforehand?

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 28 Nov 2018 14:28
Re: bug#33537: Acknowledgement (guix system error: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda2": Invalid argument)
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<znavko@tutanota.com> skribis:

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> Thank you, Julien Lepiller! That exactly was what I need!

Ah, good. :-)

Closing!

Ludo’.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 28 Nov 2018 14:28
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