Comment 112 for bug 205990

I also ran into this bug on Hardy and it persisted after upgrading to Intrepid. The problem began for me after an unfortunate situation caused by using ext2fs on MS Vista to access some videos from my Ubuntu ext3 partition. At some point, I think Vista either slept or hibernated which caused my ext3 partition and swap partition to be labeled read-only. After some fsck's/fixes and after swapoff and mkswap on /dev/sda5 to restore use of my Ubuntu partition, this bug started occurring. The fix offered by wieman01 through analystscouch solved this problem for me as well.