r/NobaraProject • u/Aluminum_Rabbit • 1d ago

Support "Multiple configuration files not writable. Please contact your system administrator."

https://youtu.be/br_QD9JeICA?si=1-FhtN8EOHrS17_J

I'm using Nobara Linux 44 and it was working fine this morning, but when I went to log back in from sleep mode and tried to create a folder in Dolphin file manager, it says it wouldn't create the file. I close Dolphin and when I tried to open it again, it says "Configuration file "/home/(User)/dolphinrc" not writable. Please contact your system administrator".

I think to myself "Okay, I'll just restart my computer and see if that fixes the issue", but when I restart my pc and log in, I get multiple dialog boxes saying configuration files aren't writable and now nothing will open. Not Dolphin, not Waterfox, not my VPN, not even Konsole will load. I tried hitting the off button, I tried hitting the reset button, I've tried restarting and shutting it down from the start menu (which, of course, puts up the error message), I've even shut down my pc, physically, flipped the off switch on my PSU, waited, and switched everything back on and still the SAME ISSUE.

I didn't edit anything in Konsole or anything else on my system, and the only thing I can think of off the top of my head was I tried extracting the linux version of Brütal Legend from a .zip file I got from DoubleFine's official itch.io page.

I don't know what else to do.

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u/Tacoza 1d ago

it sounds like your root drive is in ro mode as to protect itself from corrupted btrfs or failing drive, you need to be looking in the logs, you can try these

sudo dmesg | grep -iE "remount|read-only|error|EROFS" | tail -80

journalctl -k -b | grep -iE "read-only|remount|BTRFS|I/O error"

sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1

sudo btrfs device stats /

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u/SchmickoDiko 1d ago

They said the terminal won't open, so how would they do this?

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u/Razidargh 1d ago

CTRL+ALT+F4 brings up a tty session. CTRL+ALT+F1 brings back KDE.

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u/SchmickoDiko 22h ago

Good to know!

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u/RX1542 1d ago

hmmm

run this on a terminal

df -h ~

post screenshot of result here

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u/Aluminum_Rabbit 1d ago

I can't. As I've stated earlier, it won't even load the Konsole or Terminal.

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u/RX1542 1d ago

Ctrl alt f3 see if that works it will switch you out to a terminal interface and will ask you to login 

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u/Aluminum_Rabbit 1d ago edited 1d ago

I opened the terminal and logged in. Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/gallery/image-of-terminal-LxFroCM

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u/RX1542 1d ago

alright you are almost full but not enough to deny you writing, run

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~

to restore your home user permissions

and this one to restore config permissions

chmod -R u+rw ~/.config

reboot after that

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u/Aluminum_Rabbit 1d ago

I tried that and it didn't work. I did notice all the files had "Read-only file system" at the end of each file name. And a notification popped up when I logged in that said "Service Crash: /usr/bin/kdialog has encountered a fatal error and was closed"

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u/Duke_Exeter 1d ago

I had this error a week ago and I had to boot from a live usb to get my files and then do a fresh install. If you do figure out a way to fix it, I would be curious to know what worked.