I know this question seems similar to the question in this link EXT4-fs error after Ubuntu 17.04 upgrade, however, mine is different in the case that I am not using a Samsung NVMe SSD, and therefore the workaround by changing the boot parameter and also the bug report are not helping me. Thing is, I get the same errors gotten as the user from the other question.
Although mine happens randomly, sometimes when I boot the system, I'm not able to open any apllications as they close instantly, and when I try to shutdown or restart, it gets stuck and shows a black screen with an error looking like this ext-fs error device sda 7 ext4_find_entry comm gdm3: reading directory iblock 0
, followed by a couple of errors saying /dev/sda7: Clearing orphaned inode 6946818 (uid=122, gid=127, mode=0100600, size=0)
.
Then it shows that it is starting a couple of processes, and after showing [ OK ] Started MySQL Community Server.
, it shows another error [ 642.321539] systemd-journald[314]: Failed to write entry (24 items, 610 bytes), ignoring: Read-only file system...
and keeps showing more errors like that forever.
Even if I force a restart, the same thing always happens a second time, then on the third time, it works again. Like I said earlier, this is totally random, some days I go by without this happening, while some days it happens frequently. I'm dual-booting Windows 10 and that works fine. I'm using a HP 250 G5 Notebook PC, Ubuntu 18.04. Hard drive model is ST500LM000-1EJ162 (DEM7).