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  1. Bug #1788321
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1788321

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Roman Fiedler (roman-fiedler-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This is the failing "swapon" sequence from updated Xenial i386 on vmware:

3915 open("/dev/sda2", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
3915 uname({sysname="Linux", nodename="v3ls1717", ...}) = 0
3915 ioctl(3, BLKGETSIZE64, [535822336]) = 0
3915 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\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\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\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\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\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\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\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
3915 close(3) = 0
3915 swapon("/dev/sda2", 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

Sequence is identical to other, native/amd64 system with same kernel version but without the problem where swapon() will return 0.