Comment 3 for bug 459839

I had Jaunty with EXT3 on almost the same system: the SSD was new, and
I wanted Karmic on it, hence the installation.

Your question is obviously important to answer, though, so I am
re-installing the RC using an EXT3 partition (I think I did it right:
manual partition with EXT3 partition mounted at /)

I'll let you know.

On 10/28/09, Carl Englund <email address hidden> wrote:
> Can you confirm this only affects ext4? I.e. does the same problem arise
> if you use an ext3 (or other) filesystem instead?
>
> --
> installation corrupted due to EXT4-fs error
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459839
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> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> I think this is an EXT4 problem, possibly SSD-specific
>
> Problem is corrupted file system after indeterminate time following new
> installation.
>
> Details: clean install of kubuntu 9.10 on intel quad core machine using
> Intel X25-M SATA SSD. Install completes. Computer runs fine initially. After
> some period of time (about 3-4 system restarts, usually which include
> updating the system to most recent packages) the boot process fails with
> multiple messages of the following format:
>
> [ 46.870483] EXT4-fs error (device sda1): ext4_iget: bogus i_mode (0) for
> inode=581663
>
> I have done two clean installs using the kubuntu karmic (once with beta;
> again with release candidate) and had the same problem each time.
>
> This seems like a show-stopper for folks with my hardware. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>