This does seem to be getting kind of embarassing. With modern journalled filesystems on relatively straightforward hardware configs an unclean shutdown shouldn't be the end of the world (after all, power failures can happen), but it's not "nice" either.
Unfortunately we also seem to have a hell of a lot of noise on Launchpad about this, people conflating different issues and causes, not reading previous posts properly, etc., etc. I'll be upgrading to 14.04 from 12.04 for main machines when it comes out, if the problem's still present then I will have another look. Last time I did, my own problems were caused by dhclient and ureadahead.. I can't remember which if any of those have now been fixed. If nothing else, pushing those fixes out will show if there are other outstanding shutdown problems affecting a lot of users. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 09:19:13AM -0000, Benny wrote: > Lennert of systemd refers to this bug on google+. He outlines a fix for > the simple case: > https://plus.google.com/115547683951727699051/posts/LjkLwkeDiLc > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073433 > > Title: > Ext4 corruption associated with shutdown of Ubuntu 12.10 > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/1073433/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1073433 Title: Ext4 corruption associated with shutdown of Ubuntu 12.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/1073433/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs