Re: gconf trouble/nautilus failure

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Ian T." <itschaotic yahoo ca> writes:
> =====================	
> Eel-WARNING **: GConf error:
>   No database available to save your configuration:
>  Unable to store a value at key 
> '/apps/nautilus/defaults/novice/apps/nautilus/preferences/can_add_content', 
> as the configuration server has no writeable databases. There are two common 
> causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file doesn't contain any 
> databases or wasn't found or 2) OAF mistakenly created two gconfd processes. 
> If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was 
> launched), then it's an OAF bug, not a GConf issue. Logging out, killing oafd 
> and gconfd, and logging back in may help. As always, check the user.* syslog 
> for details on problems gconfd encountered.
> =====================
> I wouldn't know a data base if it kicked me..;*)  so I'm at a loss as to 
> where to be looking for or recreating a 'writeable database'.  

First thing to try is to get a newer GConf, such as 1.0.7.
 
> [root localhost Ian]# find /etc -name 'gconf'
> /etc/gconf
> find: /etc/gconf/1: Input/output error
> find: /etc/gconf/schemas: Input/output error
> find: /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory: Input/output error

This is an extremely bad sign, however. Looks like your disk or
filesystem has been hosed.

Havoc