[mint 18 KDE] home folder gone???

[DC80]

Hi all,

I would like to scream... What is happening... I lost my /home/<username>/ directory. As far as I know I did nothing wrong and never used an command or whatever to remove the folder.

What is happening now? Now I can't login (folder does not exist)...

I have now running the live cd (or rather an usb with the live cd on it.) and can see the /home/<username>/. YAY! Good for me... Well I thought so...

I can't access it and viewing the properties of the home folder turn up empty. Also if I access the properties of the user folder it says "cannot access this folder" or something.

Using the CLI is not to work. I can not access it nor change the permissions...

And now I am ready to say HELP! Ok, not that hard but I do some help with this... So can you help me please?

I did everything I know and I do not wanted to create a new folder because it would overwrite the old one...

Thanks in advance

[edit] I was installing wordpress and therefor using Dolphin in gksu mode... and the "file" protocol keeps crashing...

[deepakdeshp]

Please create a new Mint user.Login as this user say user2. Supposing your lost user name is user1, run following in terminal and post the output

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du -sm /home/usr1

This will give size of your files in MB.
Plesas check trash if any contents are gone there by mistake.

[deepakdeshp]

Please create a new Mint user.

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sudo adduser user2

http://tecadmin.net/add-and-delete-user-in-ubuntu/

Login as this user say user2. Supposing your lost user name is user1, run following in terminal and post the output

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du -sm /home/usr1

This will give size of your files in MB.
Plesas check trash if any contents are gone there by mistake.

[DC80]

Please create a new Mint user.

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sudo adduser user2

http://tecadmin.net/add-and-delete-user-in-ubuntu/

Login as this user say user2. Supposing your lost user name is user1, run following in terminal and post the output

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du -sm /home/usr1

This will give size of your files in MB.
Plesas check trash if any contents are gone there by mistake.

Hi deepakdeshp,

Good idea to create another user. I will think of this in the future! So by creating a new user, I can see what is happening.

I did the command and got nothing, well i did get something but not the results I hoped for:

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<username>@anon-anonymous ~ $ du -sm /home/anon
du: kan map '/home/anon/.config' niet lezen: Toegang geweigerd
du: kan map '/home/anon/.local/share/remoteview' niet lezen: Toegang geweigerd
du: kan map '/home/anon/.cache' niet lezen: Toegang geweigerd
du: kan map '/home/anon/.dbus' niet lezen: Toegang geweigerd
2       /home/anon 

If you are not native to this language then it basically means: permission denied.

So this has me thinking that it has to do with a permission problem. In this case I have the folder read outs from the command line: (using ls -la)

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<username>@anon-anonymous ~ $ ls -la /home/anon
totaal 1188
drwxrwxrwx 16 root root    4096 sep 24 07:16 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    4096 sep 24 07:16 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 Afbeeldingen
-rw-------  1 anon anon      53 sep 24 07:18 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x  2 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 Bureaublad
drwx------  3 root root    4096 sep 22 19:06 .cache
drwx------  4 anon anon    4096 sep 24 07:15 .config
drwx------  3 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 .dbus
drwxr-xr-x  2 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 Documenten
drwxr-xr-x  2 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 Downloads
-rw-rw-r--  1 anon anon     336 sep 23 15:34 .gtkrc-2.0
drwxr-xr-x  3 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 .kde
drwxrwxr-x  4 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:37 .linuxmint
drwxr-xr-x  3 anon anon    4096 sep 22 19:19 .local
drwxr-xr-x  2 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 Muziek
drwxr-xr-x  2 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 Openbaar
drwxr-xr-x  2 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 Sjablonen
-rw-r--r--  1 anon anon       0 sep 24 07:16 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x  2 anon anon    4096 sep 23 15:34 Video's
-rw-------  1 anon anon      59 sep 24 07:14 .Xauthority
-rw-------  1 anon anon 1135261 sep 24 07:18 .xsession-errors

When visually looking at it .config .cache .dbus are locked or have some lock thingies on them. So it would seem that I have to change those permissions?

[deepakdeshp]

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sudo chown  -R anon:anon /home/anon

If there is any permissioms problem this command will change all files under your home directory with anon as the owner.

[DC80]

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sudo chown  -R anon:anon /home/anon

If there is any permissioms problem this command will change all files under your home directory with anon as the owner.

I feel as of I'm almost there. The permissions seem to work but I still do not have a taskbar and a window manager.

If I press ctrl+alt+f2 then i log in and start sddm with the command sddm... This seem to work but at some point it has to change some permissions on a file but apparently can't do it...

[austin.texas]

I feel as of I'm almost there. The permissions seem to work but I still do not have a taskbar and a window manager.

Do you have the taskbar, etc when you log in as a different user?

[DC80]

I feel as of I'm almost there. The permissions seem to work but I still do not have a taskbar and a window manager.

Do you have the taskbar, etc when you log in as a different user?

Yes I have, actually the idea of deepakdeshp is great! When I created a new user, everything is/was working fine except for the anon user of which I lost the home folder...

It need to change permission after this but is not able to:

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Sep 24 18:16:28 anon-anonymous sddm[2658]: Adding cookie to "/var/run/sddm/{a85787ac-8fd2-4413-b22f-19023b13f8d9}"