My notebook is now running black screen but only mouse pointer appearing freeze and unfreeze on screen. The HDD LED light keep blinking and i can hear the blinking sound of the HDD.

Problem is this had been going on for hours, i have been waited long tempted to just power off forcefuly, but i don't think this is a good idea.

How can i interrupt and stop the process. i tried with Crtl+Alt+Del but no respone.I am with 512RAM,swap partition about 10GB(Is memory setting is the culprit here).

Can't show you my Spec details from Terminal as i am now posting from another Notebook PC.

Hi

Are you able to log into your freezing notebook from your second PC with SSH ?

If you can, log into it as a standard user.
Then you can either look for the process if you already know it in order to kill it
or you can simply shutdown the notebook (as root)
Cheers

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WHat's your distro? Some distros have access to text console via Ctrl-Alt-F1. And you can force a kill on X Server by Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. You can try to connect to it via ssh as well.

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Thanks guys, i managed to solved it with Ctrl-Alt-F1 mode, then Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
Obviously it was memory issue here.
Can you guys please help me to diagnose and do some healing here, i am sure later it will happen again.

i am using Ubuntu 11.04.Thanks!

Below is my system details from Terminal:

gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$ df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 ext4 11G 3.1G 6.7G 32% /
none devtmpfs 234M 680K 233M 1% /dev
none tmpfs 240M 840K 239M 1% /dev/shm
none tmpfs 240M 92K 240M 1% /var/run
none tmpfs 240M 0 240M 0% /var/lock
gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$

gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for gab:

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13 104391 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 14 2039 16273845 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 2040 7296 42226790+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2040 4669 21118976 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 4669 6026 10901504 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 6026 7296 10202112 82 Linux swap / Solaris
gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$


By the way: if my second PC is windows base, can i still log into my Ubuntu PC thru SSH? if can how?

If you suspect a memory size issue, use
(-m is for reporting sizes in megabytes)

If you're right, you will have low figures or even 0 in the "free", "buffers" and "cached" columns of the "Mem" line and a high figure in the "used" column of the "Swap" line.

Cheers

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You can use PuTTy

it can be sure now is memory problem.
It's show this output:

gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 479 452 26 0 12 111
-/+ buffers/cache: 327 151
Swap: 0 0 0
gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$


And i do these commands too, are there anything wrong with the error i highlighted red below from last three line from bottom?:

gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority

gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60

gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda11 during installation
UUID=daa5a1bf-ac55-44ca-9e69-815717925690 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda12 during installation
UUID=caa40260-8d73-4e3f-8e62-c7365564899a none swap sw 0 0

How can i check if my swap partition is activated?

swapon

errors=remount

This is for the kernel on initial startup.

I believe it means that if it finds a fault in the filesystem, it will do a filesystem check, & then try to remount your root partition & continue with the boot process.

man page says that if it finds an error then it will remount it as RO.

Thank you guys for the explanation.
Now when i use "swapon" commands, it shows below output:

gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$ swapon -a
swapon: cannot find the device for UUID=caa40260-8d73-4e3f-8e62-c7365564899a

gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
gab@gab-Inspiron-700m:~$

Is that mean my swap partition not activated?

It does look like that. It can't find the swap device that is configured in fstab. fdisk -l shows that it is /dev/sda7. Chek if it's UUID is same one as in fstab. You can try using device name in fstab directly.

sorry, what is fstab?i mean how to make the UUID in fstab same as in fdisk?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fstab
man fstab