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Running Ubuntu 18.04 without issue, the system started getting sluggish last evening before eventually starting to throw lack of memory errors running simple commands (eg, cd) on the command line.

I tried restarting expecting it would clear temporary memory, but haven't been able to get back into the system. Assorted attempts to turn swap off and on again, running fsck to check for errors, as well as clear and dpkg within recovery mode didn't fix the issue.

I'm wondering if there's any downside to simply deleting the swapfile in question (picture of the offending taken via recovery terminal below), and recreating to deal with the issue? Any suggestions on addressing this otherwise.

I have access to recovery mode as well as an openSUSE live disk (from which I'm currently working) to effect changes.

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Chris
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According to our discussion in comments, it seems like the issue was a full disk.

Using df -h and du, it was possible to identify some large unnecessary files and delete them to free up enough space to boot.

Byte Commander
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