Massive system failure - gconf-sanity-check-2!!

[jimstar79]

I'm suffering, as the title describes, from 'Massive System Failure'.

this is the root of my problem: gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256

Last thing i did last night was install Skype. Tried restarting the machine and this is what i get.

Then, tried to follow a couple of instructions on how to repair it and now all i get is a grey screen with a blinking image.

Gutted! is there any way to sort this out. Looking at having to reinstall Ubuntu from scratch and lose tons of data!

Any help will be appreciated,

peace

[jimstar79]

OMG - problem solved!!!!


found the answer posted here by Xaegis (my Hero!)

Originally Posted by xaegis View Post
I used the same chown and keep getting the message:

chown: cannot access `/home/$USER/.gvfs': Permission denied

How do I work around this?
I just migrated to 9.04 and now it wont accept my permissions.

Thanks in advance.

-e

Nevermind I used:
sudo aptitude reinstall gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-bin gvfs-fuse libgvfscommon0

Found over on this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=971110&page=2

YES, YES, YES!!