Re: ERROR: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda1": Invalid argument

[Ludovic Courtès]

Thierry Micoud <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 18 Apr 2016 09:03, "Ludovic Courtès" <address@hidden> wrote:

[...]

>> According to swapon(2), this most likely means that /dev/sda1 does not
>> contain a valid swap signature.
>>
>> If that is the case, it can be fixed with:
>>
>>   mkswap /dev/sda1
>>   herd start swap-/dev/sda1
>>
>> HTH!
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> That was exactly it.
> Being a fresh install I completely forgot to mkswap the partition during
> the install.

The manual failed to mention it, so I’ve added it:

  
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=31b6cdf8d196f36790776f366868fe64932fa23d

> Thanks very much for taking time to reply.
> I'm still finding my way round this distro, but enjoying very much the
> learning curve.

Thanks for your feedback!

Ludo’.