I've also been being affected by this bug. I'm running Ubuntu Studio 9.10 on x64, and I have my disk partitioned in a very similar fashion, one NTFS partition for Windows 7, one FAT32 partition for shared data, one ext3 partition for Ubuntu and finally one small Linux Swap partition that I doubt has ever actually been used.
Though the keyboard seems mostly useless, the "Magic SysRq" commands work, and one can use one can use ALT+SysRq+R to take control of the keyboard then ALT+SysRq+E to terminate most processes and bring yourself back to a limited console login screen. I'm not sure exactly what functionality is missing due to most processes being terminated like that, but you can then use "sudo reboot" and type your password to reboot safely. Perhaps a true guru could take advantage of this console to recover their system, but for everyone else, the recovery console is completely broken. -- CRITICAL! Karmic: Recovery mode broken, probably due to FAT fsck problems https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484195 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
