Re: gconf trouble/nautilus failure

[Hongl Lai <hongli telekabel nl>]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 19:49, Darin Adler wrote:
> On 1/17/02 10:48 AM, "Ian T." <itschaotic yahoo ca> wrote:
> 
> > Wow.. hmm that seems like a pretty bleak outlook.  What would you do if you
> > were me?  Reinstall the OS?
> 
> Yes. And you might even find you have to buy a new disk drive.
> 
> >>> [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.
> 
> These are low level errors, which normally can't result from programming
> mistakes. You have to have a screwed up disk.
> 

Don't worry. I think those are just filesystem errors, not hardware
failures.
Just reboot and force-run fsck on your disk.