swapon --all --verbose : 'read swap header failed: Invalid argument'

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Published on 2012-08-13T13:46:06Z Indexed on 2012/11/05 23:19 UTC
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Recently ran through EnableHibernateWithEncryptedSwap and ran the following command: swapon --all --verbose and received: 'read swap header failed: Invalid argument'

How do I fix this? Here's some more pertinent output...

Output of sudo fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors 
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00006d20 

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System 
/dev/sda1   *        2048      499711      248832   83  Linux 
/dev/sda2          501758   156301311    77899777    5  Extended 
/dev/sda5          501760   156301311    77899776   8e  Linux LVM 

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--t10194-root: 75.5 GB, 75539415040 bytes 
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9183 cylinders, total 147537920 sectors 
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
Disk identifier: 0x00000000 

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--t10194-root doesn't contain a valid partition table 

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--t10194-swap_1: 4227 MB, 4227858432 bytes 
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 514 cylinders, total 8257536 sectors 
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
Disk identifier: 0x08040000 

Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--t10194-swap_1 doesn't contain a valid partition table 

Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: 4225 MB, 4225761280 bytes 
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 513 cylinders, total 8253440 sectors 
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
Disk identifier: 0xd2236983 

Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 doesn't contain a valid partition table 

Thanks for any and ALL help!

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