[NTLUG:Discuss] Sudden error

[steve]

Bobby Wrenn wrote:

> A little while ago I tried to do an 'ls' in a terminal window. I got 
> an error "Unable to allocate memory". I tried a few more commands and 
> got the same errror. I rebooted the machine and got the error on 
> practically every line during boot. X Windows comes up but most 
> services don't work. I can't bring up eth0 (same error).
>
> System it Suse 9.2 loaded about a month ago. Google didn't turn up 
> anything helpful.
>
> Have I been cracked? Any ideas?

Maybe you have a bad RAM block.  What does 'free' say?  Does the 'Mem:'
line have about the right amount under the 'total' column?  It should
approximately match the amount of physical RAM you have.

Is it possible that your swap partition is missing or corrupt?

What does 'cat /proc/swaps' say?