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Error : An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for Nautilus. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

Good Day All,

After a long time i'm posting again in my blog... this time its about error while launching Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala after replacing a motherboard (mbo)..

This is the error message i get when i replace the mbo and use back the old hard disc with existing OS and data "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for Nautilus. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly."

Tried all i can n did some major search in Google, did find some info but didnt really solved my problem. So i asked help from a friend. After a lot of trial and error we manage to find the solution. So if anyone out there is facing the same problem, you might try this ;

# locate saved_state
(will giv out 2 findings, in /home/username directory and in /root directory)
# cd /home/username/.gconfd
# ls
(will show a file by the name "saved_state")
# rm -rf saved_state
(this will delete the file)
# reboot
(when the machine reboot, a fresh copy of the saved_state file will be generated and this should solved the problem)

Hope this solved your problem. Do feedback the outcome if you have tried this.

P.S : Thanks to my buddy who help me on this.
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7 comments:

  1. ArivukkadalApril 2, 2010 at 9:00 PM

    Helped me to recover my karmic.
    Thank you so much
    -Arivukkadal

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  2. MadanAugust 3, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    I faced the same thig.
    the above workaround didnot help me.

    after my trial and errors.. [I didnt delete ~homedir/.gconfd/saved_state]

    observed 777 permissions to dir /tmp/gconfd-username

    then I provided 700 permissions to it.
    [after comparing with the user on different working machine]

    this helped to resolve my issue.

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    1. vanjulioJanuary 16, 2014 at 4:59 AM

      This also worked for me. Earlier today I simply had set executable to everything under tmp: "chmod +x /tmp/*" and then I got those same errors when trying to log back into the desktop session. This seems like really strange behavior to me but I'm glad you identified the solution. Setting back to 700 worked. I also had to do this for /tmp/orbit-username as well.

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    2. UnknownMay 8, 2014 at 11:31 PM

      Setting perms on /tmp/gconfd-root to 700 resolved my issue. Thanks Madan..

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  3. DMSchoolApril 12, 2012 at 6:45 PM

    i have same issue i was delete saved_state file then reboot
    after reboot same issue and no saved_state file is created
    now what can i do

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  4. UnknownJune 1, 2012 at 12:20 AM

    I got this problem in my root user :( if I clean the saved_state in root, will it be created again?

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  5. UnknownSeptember 16, 2017 at 10:45 PM

    I m new to linux redhat . I have created a new user from root user. when i login to the new user then a many dialog box appears showing some errors. One of the error is "An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for Nautilus. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly". But root user is working properly.
    So how can i fix it

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