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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ogicse!plains!tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Swap problems Message-ID: <19362@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 26 Jul 92 13:55:15 GMT Article-I.D.: plains.19362 References: <1992Jul26.035657.16509@news2.cis.umn.edu> Sender: Unknown@plains.NoDak.edu Organization: North Dakota State University Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu In article <1992Jul26.035657.16509@news2.cis.umn.edu> rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen) writes: >When trying to recompile the kernel for the first time today I started >getting messages something like: > >/386bsd: error 0 blkno xxxx sz 4096 swap_pager_finish: clear of page xxxxx failed. at least with 0.1 wd driver (I have not check 0.1), this error was caused because the swap was not on a cylinder boundery. look at the output of the disklabel command; if there is a star after the swap parrtition's cylinder number, then move the swap so it is on a whole cylinder.