Bug#469414: This bug still exists in 8.1.0 intrepid ibex amd64

[Michael Simpson]

I am running intrepid ibex server on an amd 3500+ on epox 9nda3+ with  
ATI x800 AIW and new corsair ram (1024mb) that has been stress tested.  
No other issues for a week then last night system-backend-tools broke.  
Same experience as everyone else. I stopped the service using:

/etc/init.d/system-backend-tools stop

then ran apt-get upgrade and everything went sucessful. I have no idea  
what broke it, is there something i should peek at that might help?  
I'd love to help fix the probelm- I'm a moderately proficient c/java/ 
ruby coder but I have absolutely no idea where to begin debugging a  
kernel?! So, happy to help just don't know where to start or how to  
approach systems development in general. I'm trying to say: if someone  
can point me in the bug's direction, i probably won't need a hand to  
hold.

Just wanted to make sure you guys were aware that this bug still exists.