Comment 33 for bug 583923

I have this issue on my desktop system: Core i3, Gigabyte motherboard H55-USB3. I have Mint 9 installed with kernel 2.6.35 installed from here:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

by following these instructions:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=40185&start=0

I can replicate the problem by typing:

sudo touch /forcefsck

In my case, the file system check finishes and disk activity stops and I can press C to continue with no problems.