I got this message initially for the site wwf2.gooduse.co.nz when I didn't have the right database name.
Now I'm getting it in the backend admin when I try to edit a particular page type (ProjectPage). This clearly used to work because someone has added content on their local computer and i think it must have happened when I uploaded the site to the server... But I've re-uploaded it a lot and it's still there.
The error is really unhelpful and obviously means a whole bunch of different things...