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Recently my machine has become very slow and I don't know why? I've re-installed my Linux ( Ubuntu, Xubuntu ) several times. But everytime, after using a few times. It becomes slow again. I means really slow - webbrowsers are always lag, everything I do, i have to wait T.T

Here's it's brief spec: Intel Core i5-2410M 4GB DDR3 RAM Ati Radeon HD 6630

It's supposed to run linux flawlessly :( And one more thing, most of the time, I receive this error while booting: enter image description here

hieusun@ubuntu:/$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 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: 0x32e36372

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          96      768000   de  Dell Utility
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *          96        6470    51201251    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            6471       10294    30716280   83  Linux
/dev/sda4           10295       60801   405697447    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           10295       31966   174080308+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           31967       32476     4096543+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           32477       60801   227520531    7  HPFS/NTFS
hieusun@ubuntu:/$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              29G  3.4G   25G  13% /
none                  1.6G  712K  1.6G   1% /dev
none                  1.6G  112K  1.6G   1% /dev/shm
none                  1.6G  132K  1.6G   1% /var/run
none                  1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /var/lock
/dev/sda5             164G  1.4G  154G   1% /home

vmstat:

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- 
r b     swpd free    buff  cache   si so     bi bo    in cs      us sy id wa 
0 2      0   2433924 58436 447752   0  0     100 39   114 255     3  1 85 11
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    It's supposed to run linux flawlessly Nothing runs linux flawlessly ;)
    – Simon Sheehan
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:04
  • Have you checked disk space?
    – Paul
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:11
  • @Paul: On a freshly installed box?
    – Cybercartel
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:17
  • @David. Yes, an undersized partition is undersized no matter when linux was installed.
    – Paul
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:18
  • @Paul: And why did I get a downvote? When source is infected it's infected. Most likely with his box there isn't an undersized partition?
    – Cybercartel
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:20

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Here is what is really wrong:

error: (hd0) out of disk, assert: error stack overflow detected are GRUB2 errors.

They basically mean that GRUB2 can't read or write to the disk, and by trying multiple attempts to try to access your disk it keeps generating errors such that finally the small error stack fills up and you get an error that it can't display any further messages because it got out of allocated memory.

Here is what to do:

  • Your first steps should be reinstalling GRUB2 or perhaps trying a different boot loader.

    Make sure that you get your GRUB configuration file (menu.lst or whatever) is correct...

  • Your second check should be running checks against your hard disk to see if it is still fine.

  • Dependent on the outcome of that, either reinstall your OS or get a new hard disk.

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It looks like you have a virus. If you get a stack overflow message maybe Linux has found something is writing something to the stack and beyond. I would delete the disk and re-install again.

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  • Its a freshly installed system, he claims - a virus is quite unlikely.
    – Simon Sheehan
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:08
  • @SimonSheehan: That's what the message is saying. I've never seen this message and also there isn't a guarantee his source is infected.
    – Cybercartel
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:15
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    @David if you have never seen this message, then your virus conclusion must surely be baseless?
    – Paul
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:38
  • @Paul: Not really because the message is saying something. It happens a stack overflow. A stack overflow can be cause of evil software. It's just logic. I don't need to know everything to put my foot one after another.
    – Cybercartel
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:44
  • I've deleted all the partition and then do the partitioning again. How can it be infected ??
    – Hieu Nguyen
    Commented Jan 19, 2012 at 2:47
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Download puppy linux or other distro with gparted that will run in RAM, burn ISO to cd, boot it.

Backup data (puppy uses pburn or you can mount an external drive) and fix your disk with Gparted or just start over with a clean partitioning.

Install your favorite OS.

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