I've started experiencing the same recently; I have a machine that's always-on, and freezes in the same manner (with lit HD light), usually after between 2-5 days uptime. The inode errors are then fixed (either on bootup or manually via a bootable Ubuntu SD card) and the process repeats.
My disks are ~6 month old 500GB WD Caviar drives and the / partition (sadly the one exhibiting the problem - others all come up clean post- crash) is also ext3 format. I *believe* the issue began after the most recent kernel upgrade (current: 2.6.22-14-generic), so I'll try downgrading again to see if that makes any difference. -- EXT3-fs error corruption https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200747 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs