Comment 21 for bug 510415

I think I have the same bug/issue.

Problem: On boot quite often * it just hangs at the blue kubuntu splash screen with dots moving.
Just sits there. Has not crashed, because a Ctrl-Alt-Delete does an ordered shutdown and restart.
No other prompts/etc on screen - just splash screen - cannot swap to other consoles.
Does not do it on every boot.

* The machine used to run 24/7, so cannot pinpoint when it first started happening.
Running Kubuntu 10.04 - was not doing this when it was first installed (a long time ago), but cannot be sure I did not alter fstab to create this problem.

Machine has 6GB RAM, so if SWAP is disabled/non-functional I might not have noticed...interesting how this was NOT brought to my attention by the machine - maybe have small terminal window in splash screen where minor/major errors on boot can be noted, but still have it looking ṕretty´?

Fstab:

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# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=79d19e27-a9ec-47b7-b8c6-6e5502fd4b6f / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=90ccb876-b0fb-4185-a625-1ebe6a3c2205 /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home was on /dev/md0 during installation
UUID=5c588f6f-e333-480a-90e4-46c755d1674b /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=24138457-46ef-49ef-848b-0ba4ee5d317b none swap sw 0 0
# swap was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=9efda2c6-3df9-4206-8b60-f656077dd799 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
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Mountall:

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swapon: /dev/disk/by-uuid/24138457-46ef-49ef-848b-0ba4ee5d317b: swapon failed: Device or resource busy
mountall: swapon /dev/disk/by-uuid/24138457-46ef-49ef-848b-0ba4ee5d317b [13054] terminated with status 255
mountall: Problem activating swap: /dev/disk/by-uuid/24138457-46ef-49ef-848b-0ba4ee5d317b
swapon: /dev/disk/by-uuid/9efda2c6-3df9-4206-8b60-f656077dd799: swapon failed: Device or resource busy
mountall: swapon /dev/disk/by-uuid/9efda2c6-3df9-4206-8b60-f656077dd799 [13058] terminated with status 255
mountall: Problem activating swap: /dev/disk/by-uuid/9efda2c6-3df9-4206-8b60-f656077dd799
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Blkid:
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/dev/sda1: LABEL="BOOT" UUID="90ccb876-b0fb-4185-a625-1ebe6a3c2205" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="24138457-46ef-49ef-848b-0ba4ee5d317b" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: UUID="79d19e27-a9ec-47b7-b8c6-6e5502fd4b6f" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="9efda2c6-3df9-4206-8b60-f656077dd799" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="84038a4e-7bdd-d632-59c4-7b6bc0f30829" TYPE="linux_raid_member"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="3359f207-afa6-4711-876f-9833633b265b" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdc5: UUID="84038a4e-7bdd-d632-59c4-7b6bc0f30829" TYPE="linux_raid_member"
/dev/md0: UUID="5c588f6f-e333-480a-90e4-46c755d1674b" TYPE="ext3"
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