Re: gconf trouble/nautilus failure

["Ian T." <itschaotic yahoo ca>]

Wow.. hmm that seems like a pretty bleak outlook.  What would you do if you 
were me?  Reinstall the OS?  

On January 17, 2002 10:10 am, you wrote:
> "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
> 
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