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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: ERROR: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda1": Invalid argument
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:42:14 +0200
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Thierry Micoud <thierrymicoud@gmail.com> skribis:

> On 18 Apr 2016 09:03, "Ludovic Court=C3=A8s" <ludo@gnu.org> 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=E2=80=99.
>
> 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=E2=80=99ve added it:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3D31b6cdf8d196f36790=
776f366868fe64932fa23d

> 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=E2=80=99.