I have run again the Ubuntu 17.04 installer on a virtual machine, with the "encrypted home folder" option.
I confirm that in such case even the unencrypted swap is not activated after boot.
In particular:
- at boot, the system hangs a couple of minutes telling that "a start job is running for dev-mapper-cryptswap1.device"
- when I finally manage to login, I see that no swap is activated:
alberto@alberto-VirtualBox:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 2046200 1143772 67400 40392 835028 697220
Swap: 0 0 0
alberto@alberto-VirtualBox:~$ sudo systemctl status swapfile.swap
mar 07 15:47:09 alberto-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Encrypted Volumes.
mar 07 15:47:09 alberto-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cryptsetup.target: Job cryptsetup.target/start failed with result 'dependency'
but swap file has been created:
alberto@alberto-VirtualBox:~$ ls -l /swapfile
-rw------- 1 root root 394264576 mar 7 15:25 /swapfile
I have run again the Ubuntu 17.04 installer on a virtual machine, with the "encrypted home folder" option.
I confirm that in such case even the unencrypted swap is not activated after boot.
In particular:
- at boot, the system hangs a couple of minutes telling that "a start job is running for dev-mapper- cryptswap1. device"
- when I finally manage to login, I see that no swap is activated:
alberto@ alberto- VirtualBox: ~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 2046200 1143772 67400 40392 835028 697220
Swap: 0 0 0
alberto@ alberto- VirtualBox: ~$ sudo systemctl status swapfile.swap
● swapfile.swap - /swapfile
man: systemd- fstab-generator (8)
Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-03-07 15:45:40 CET; 2min 51s ago
What: /swapfile
Docs: man:fstab(5)
mar 07 15:45:40 alberto-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Activating swap /swapfile...
mar 07 15:45:40 alberto-VirtualBox swapon[346]: swapon: /swapfile: read swap header failed
mar 07 15:45:40 alberto-VirtualBox systemd[1]: swapfile.swap: Swap process exited, code=exited status=255
mar 07 15:45:40 alberto-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Failed to activate swap /swapfile.
mar 07 15:45:40 alberto-VirtualBox systemd[1]: swapfile.swap: Unit entered failed state.
alberto@ alberto- VirtualBox: ~$ sudo systemctl status cryptsetup.target
● cryptsetup.target - Encrypted Volumes system/ cryptsetup. target; static; vendor preset: enabled) special( 7)
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:systemd.
mar 07 15:47:09 alberto-VirtualBox systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Encrypted Volumes. target/ start failed with result 'dependency'
mar 07 15:47:09 alberto-VirtualBox systemd[1]: cryptsetup.target: Job cryptsetup.
but swap file has been created:
alberto@ alberto- VirtualBox: ~$ ls -l /swapfile
-rw------- 1 root root 394264576 mar 7 15:25 /swapfile