Other details:
the / is a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic
the /home was an ext3 file system which was in-place upgraded to ext4 when I
installed Ubuntu Jaunty [in march] , this partition has not been formated
since.
This problem did not arise in Jaunty.[with the same /home partition]
The problem started only after I installed Karmic recently [~1 month ago]
So, it might be related to the fact that the /home partition was in-place
upgraded to ext4 , but still, Jaunty worked with no such problems.
Upstreamed...
Other details:
the / is a fresh install of Ubuntu Karmic
the /home was an ext3 file system which was in-place upgraded to ext4 when I
installed Ubuntu Jaunty [in march] , this partition has not been formated
since.
This problem did not arise in Jaunty.[with the same /home partition]
The problem started only after I installed Karmic recently [~1 month ago]
So, it might be related to the fact that the /home partition was in-place
upgraded to ext4 , but still, Jaunty worked with no such problems.