Comment 8 for bug 573737

I propose to change the importance of this bug to the critical level and status to confirmed. I/O errors currently disable to use lucid in my box at all. I even have a problem to try to downgrade kernel to 2.6.31 (possible?) as dpkg timeouts when accessing its databases in /var... As I can access and check my disk using previous ubuntu releases I am almost sure that this bug was introduced in lucid and is not related with hardware failures.