Gallery Stopped Working Error: Your Userfile is not writeable

Gallery suddenly stopped working, the only thing I get is:

Error: Your Userfile is not writeable . (p.s link = http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ )


On the gallery website, it says I have to change the permissions of the albums folder to 777 and then it should be fixed. I can't change the attributes, not in FileZilla, not in Cpanel.

This is what FileZilla tells me:

Response:	550 Could not change perms on /public_html/jovolka/gallery/albums/.users/userdb.dat: Bad file descriptor

The gallery website states that this is caused by an upgrade, so I suppos Xisto did some upgrade, so now I hope they can help me too .

Error: Your Userfile is not writeable
See next topic. Solution is the same.
[edit]
Warning: fopen(".../albums/team/album.dat.lock","a+")

This typically happens when your ISP makes a change in your environment (like upgrading PHP or moving things around) without telling you about it. In a nutshell, some of Gallery's files wind up being owned by the wrong user and their permissions become set such that Gallery can no longer write to them. I've never found this to be the result of a bug in Gallery. To fix this, you can change the permissions on your Gallery data files so that Apache can read the files again. This should only happen on Unix. If you have shell access, you can fix it like this:
cd /var/www/albums
cd ..
chmod -R 777 albums

If you don't have shell access, you can use your FTP client to recursively (every file and every directory) chmod the albums directory 777.

Thanks in advance.
Edited November 28, 2006 by wutske (see edit history)

I can login to my cpanel but I an't seem to modify my files, or upload. I tried via FTP but still doesn't let me, is it just me? What's wrong?Here's what it says after I try to save a file using the editor:[a fatal error or timeout occurred while processing this directive]

Edited November 28, 2006 by demolaynyc (see edit history)

I have noticed the same thing for a few hours now..It seems that the file system is read only atm..This has happ before, its a known problem, I am sure the mods will be on to it soon.

Look here : http://forums.xisto.com/topic/14204-topic/
the old "readonly" problem seems to be here again.
My own website is currently simply unreachable : no http to my homepage, no ftp for upload.