Unclean shutdowns update - we've got a little problem here :(

OK, I know what's going on with my unclean shutdowns, but have no way to fix it. It's a kernel bug in suse 10.3. It's bug 336669 Processes randomly enter uninterruptible sleep state. Apparently it affects both the most recent kernel, and earlier kernels, too, so there does not seem to be a way to do anything about it except downgrade to 10.2 or earlier. As someone said on the opensuse mailing list, "this is very uncool". If you are thinking to install 10.3, I suggest that you wait until this is fixed - and I can only hope that I don't fry my hard drive before that happens.