[xubuntu-users] Swap not active

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Tue, 05 May 2015 18:39:02 -0400
Rog <linux.rog at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I boot, I see, "The device mapper for /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 is
> not ready or not present. Continue to wait, or Press S to skip
> mounting or M for manual recovery.
> 
> Waiting has no apparent effect; M does nothing.
> 
> Gnome-system-monitor shows swap as not available. Gnome-disk utility
> shows the partition as inactive and when I Activate it, the swap
> status changes immediately to available.
> 
> After a reboot, I get the same message at boot, swap is not available
> and is not active, according to Gnome-disk.
> 
> I'm running Xubuntu 14.04 and updates are current. But, I've seen the
> same message at boot on another PC running Xubuntu 12.04.
> 
> Luckily, Linux manages memory memory quite well so swap is seldom
> called into action, and, I don't hibernate - just suspend or shutdown.
> 
> Solution?

Is swap in your /etc/fstab?
Something like this 
<
# swap was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=0b86de3a-eb37-40c8-99bc-55f709777e7f none            swap
sw              0       0
>