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  1. Bug #346691
  2. Comment #52

Comment 52 for bug 346691

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Martin Peterka (martin-peterka) wrote : Re: jaunty kernel 2.6.28-11 kernel update renders the system un-usable.

I had same problem.
System was running fine, until I updated to jaunty (64bit). After second reboot auto fsck failed (on one of my ext3 partitions). So I`ve repaired it manually. Some data was lost, so I buy an external usb harddisk and start back-up. System freeze and didn`t boot anymore. I try repair it, without success. I reinstaled it (jaunty again, kernel 2.6.28-11), but backup (on external disk with vfat) was also corrupted.:(
dmesg was full of error messages about filesystem, a lot of programs (sudo eg.) stop working, filesystem was remounted readonly.
If I boot to jaunty live cd, output of fdisk -l /dev/sda was very strange. (Error messages about partitions which have begin and end in another partition. I havent this output - and if yes, it will be lost.)
Using fdisk I recreated partitions, install jaunty again. (+ ext3 was replaced by ext4.) The filesystem was full of errors again. I found this bug, so I`ve tried to install another kernel from kernel.ubuntu.org (2.6.30-020630rc4-generic). (It isnt easy if /var/lib/dpkg/available is also corrupted file.)

ok, in this post isn`t a lot of useful information - maybe just that one about fdisk output. I hope that helps.