This happened again.  Here are the contents of
/dev/.initramfs/progress_state:

"0(p'-KA

Meaningless nonsense!  Actually, the last 2 characters were some sort of
scripted K (kappa?) and a scripted A (?), probably form some distant
part of the console font.

Whatever the case, the file contains rubbish.  However, the rubbish is
somewhat consistent because the "Unterminated quoted string error" is
common.

So, I'm wondering what this is?  Filesystem corruption?  The result of a
bizarre race condition?  Memory corruption?

I'm betting against a hardware problem.  I'm not seeing problems at
other times, it seems relatively consistent and this only started
occurring when I upgraded to Feisty.  However, I've seen less likely
coincidences....  :-)

Ideas?

Thanks...

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