Magento – Something went wrong while saving this configuration: Incorrect theme identification key when saving store theme

magento-2.1magento2

I changed the site to Single Store Mode

It then defaults to no theme

So when trying to update the theme I get:

Something went wrong while saving this configuration: Incorrect theme identification key

Best Answer

var/generation is not writable.

var, app/etc and pub/static should be writable by web server. Please check the below link

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.1/install-gde/prereq/file-system-perms.html