Comment 148 for bug 509180

I'm seeing this bug in a 3-week old fresh install of oneiric, with encrypted home and ext4fs. Out of the blue the system froze up, then X wouldn't start on the next boot, scared the living s*** out of me. Now X intermittently does start. So it seems this bug really isn't fixed.

here's my kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is there a way I can fix this without re-installing the whole thing? Much of the above thread is a mystery to me -- do I have to find corrupted empty files and delete them? How would I go about that? Thanks!