bad interaction of ext4 error log vs disk health dialog/gnome-disk-utility

[Erno Kuusela]

A dialog pops up saying "a hard disk is reporting health problems" and the "examine" button pops up gnome-disk-utility.
The smart status of all disks shows as OK.

I suspect it's getting the bad vibes from this kernel log message:

EXT4-fs (<device>): error count: 4
EXT4-fs (<device>): initial error at <nnn>: __ext4_get_inode_loc:3305: inode <nnnn>: block <nnn>

But there's no obvious way to address this problem in gnome-disk-utility, and it's just the kernel dumping
the filesystem error log.

<see eg this message http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1012.3/00502.html>

This disk has once upon a time been connected to a flaky cable or controller, and the error log hasn't
been cleared because it's an external disk that's mounted using the desktop mount mechanism under /media which
doesn't get periodical fsck's. But I guess this would also happen if the error happened in the current setup.

So it's probably possible for me to fix it by finding the right partition in the gnome disk utility and clicking the fsck button,
but there's no reasonable way a user could know that.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.0.2-2ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 10 18:24:41 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-07-24 (17 days ago)