On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 11:45 AM Samuel Sieb <samuel@sieb.net> wrote:
 
Is there an error message?
What is the line in your /etc/fstab?
What happens if you do "swapon /path/to/your/swapfile"?

No idea why this is happening though:

swapon /fedora.swap
swapon: /fedora.swap: swapon failed: Invalid argument


I am getting the following error message during boot

$ journalctl -b 0

Nov 13 11:55:46 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Activating swap /fedora.swap...
Nov 13 11:56:01 localhost.HPNotebook swapon[1018]: swapon: /fedora.swap: swapon failed: Invalid argument
Nov 13 11:55:46 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap: Swap process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 13 11:55:46 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 13 11:55:46 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Failed to activate swap /fedora.swap.
Nov 13 11:56:01 localhost.HPNotebook swapon[1104]: swapon: /fedora.swap: swapon failed: Invalid argument
Nov 13 11:56:00 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Activating swap /fedora.swap...
Nov 13 11:56:01 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap: Swap process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 13 11:56:01 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 13 11:56:01 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Failed to activate swap /fedora.swap.
Nov 13 11:56:02 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Activating swap /fedora.swap...
Nov 13 11:56:02 localhost.HPNotebook swapon[1122]: swapon: /fedora.swap: swapon failed: Invalid argument
Nov 13 11:56:02 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap: Swap process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Nov 13 11:56:02 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: fedora.swap.swap: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 13 11:56:02 localhost.HPNotebook systemd[1]: Failed to activate swap /fedora.swap.


I can confirm that swap does not work as :

$ free

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        8041504     1887468     4029028      321996     2125008     5525636
Swap:             0           0           0

Free gives 0 swap, and my hibernate option is disabled.


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Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty