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uswsusp should probably remove its d-i specific hack for devfs support
Date: Fri Nov 09 2007 - 01:10:21 EST
Package: uswsusp
Severity: normal
Quoting Steve Kleene (skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu):
(this was a mail in debian-boot, but not a bug report. I turn this into a bug report against uswsusp. Please answer to that bug report rather than to this mail directly. I'll post the bug number as soon as I receive it. Steve, it would be good to make you the bug submitter but I need your agreement for this
> I've built three Etch systems this year. The most recent seems fine, but its
> installation proceeded differently than in the past, and so I'm confused.
>
> I installed from the latest netinst CD. During "Select and install
> software", the following came up:
>
> "The swap partition that was found in uswsusp's configuration file is
> not active. In most cases this means userspace software suspend will
> not work for you and you will need to choose (or let uswsusp choose)
> another partition. In some corner cases, however, this can be what you
> want.
>
> "Continue without a valid swap partition?"
This issue clearly needs to be dealt with the uswsusp package maintainer as it apparently happens during the software initial install on a *new* system.
From a quick look to uswsusp config script, I see it seems to include special d-i-related code, to support devfs-style names. However, d-i doesn't use devfs anymore, so I suspect that something might need to be adapted in uswsusp config script. The comment even says "This will be removed when d-i starts using `normal' device names."......"This" should now probably be removed.. :-)
The remaining of Steve's mail, for completeness:
>
> One would think that answering "No" (continue without a valid swap partition)
> would be a bad idea. In fact, it was the only way to get the installation to
> complete.
>
> I now find that I have /usr/sbin/s2disk, /etc/uswsusp.conf, and other
> hibernation software that is not present on my previous two installations.
> I did the same "software selection" on those but used whatever Etch (stable)
> netinst CD was current.
>
> As far as I can tell, I do have a valid swap partition despite the error
> during installation. /proc/swaps has
>
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/hda5 partition 1461904 524 -1
>
> I have two questions.
>
> 1. What caused hibernation software to be installed this time but not in the
> recent past?
> 2. Do I have a valid swap partition?
>
> This could be related to bug 411727, but supposedly that was fixed. Thanks.
>
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