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Juan David
Asked: 2018-01-03 18:29:00 +0800 CST

Deleted \home, files were backed up, computer froze and now I can't log in

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I was trying to install a program in home and it screwed up my \home directory. All my files were backed up but now I can't use any file manager to organize everything again. Also I don't know if I messed something up and would like to know how to proceed without damaging even more my computer. The files were moved to a folder called backupdir-8866.

Update: My computer froze and a had to force shut down, now I can't log in, I enter my password and it sends me back to the log in screen. I need urgent help.

Update: I entered in recovery mode, i used ls /home and it is empty, before i forced shut down there was the folder i mentioned with all my files, i am not sure what to do.

Update: In shell prompt I ran locate username and it returned /home/username, but ls /home returns nothing.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try the command sudo mkhomedir_helper <username>. That should recreate the user folder with the right permissions and minimum required dot files.

    Alternatively you could try the following, which should have the same effect:

    sudo mkdir /home/username
sudo cp /etc/skel/* /home/username/
sudo chown -R username:username /home/username
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