Comment 59 for bug 67545

Jonathan: generally the effort is put in to making sure that issues are fixed in the next release of Ubuntu (once every six months). In this case that should be Ubuntu 7.04, due to be released in April.

The fixes for this particularly issue have involed fairly low-level changes to get around the restriction. Because of the low-level I suspect that it's unlikely to be easy (or safe) to backport the updates to earlier versions of Ubuntu that have already been released.

In this case, the issue is only seen on boot-up and does not affect actual operation of the machine once boot-up on an 'amd64' machine has completed. If there was data-loss involved, this would be a different case.

Hope that helps, I don't think you'll see if fixed on your existing machines, but you should see it after 7.04 is released!