Swap Space Not Activated On Boot

[NoOp]

On 09/02/2014 04:46 PM, sktsee wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:26:18 -0700, maihoaomv wrote:
> 
>> i installed  linux mint 17 xfce a month or so ago on my laptop. i
>> encrypted my home folder at installation but cryptswap wouldn't work at
>> the time. with some help from the linux mint  forum i managed to get
>> swap to work (most of the time). the problem i'm having now is cryptswap
>> doesn't always start at boot time. it worked most of the time at first
>> but over time it's gotten to where it almost never starts. i have to
>> manually start it with sudo swapon -a.
>> 
>> hopefully someone can show me what i'm doing wrong and help with solve
>> this problem.
>> thanks
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Edit the cryptswap1 entry in /etc/crypttab to identify the swap device by 
> its device path (/dev/sda2), or by its disk by-id path
> (example: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDMANUFACTURER-MODEL-SERIALNUM-part2). If 
> you have multiple hard disks attached to your system then use disk by-id. 
> So your crypttab should contain a line like this:
> 
> cryptswap1   /dev/sda2    /dev/urandom  swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256
> 

Read the bug reports that I posted to earlier...