Re: Prelink eating all my resources

[Peter Teuben <teuben astro umd edu>]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 akonstam trinity edu wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:17:02AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 8/1/05, Peter Teuben <teuben astro umd edu> wrote:
> > > I had reported on a similar problem, and finally paid attention to the
> > > output of "df" which showed 0 usage of swap. In fact, total was 0 too,
> > > i.e. i had no swap despite that it was installed with swap. Turned
> > > out the /etc/fstab file had a rather curious line in it:
> > > 
> > > LABEL=   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > > 
> > > where the = sign was followed by 15 0xAA characters (that dind't print
> > > in the cut&paste above)!! So, no wonder. I suspect it is something in
> > > the installed that is broken, since i install redhat systems fairly
> > > regularly, or i overlooked a new(?)  requirement that partitions be
> > > labeled.
> > > 
> This is not true. Partitions may be, but do not have to be labeled.

good. But my real point is that i think i then ran into an installation
bug. It will be hard to reproduce though (well, it being a lot of work
on a production machine for me). But i'll be a good citizen and search
for it on bugzilla and file a "bug".

peter