[ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

[Colin Law]

On 31 May 2013 17:18, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
> Sometimes my home folder is missing. When I boot up and get to the login
> screen, I enter my password to login and it does not load the desktop, but
> goes straight back to the login screen. And just now my home folder
> literally just disappeared. I can see other user folders in  /home but not
> for my current user, although I am still logged in.


If you are logged in I don't see how it can have disappeared yet leave
you logged in with anything like a working system.  What happens if in
a terminal you run
ls ~
Also, when you cannot log in what happens if you log in as a different
user and run
sudo ls /home

Colin

>
> I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 XFCE and it is up to date, the last updates
> were applied this morning, although the problem has persisted for a while
> now. Although today is the first time I have lost my home partition while
> logged in.
>
> This is a real nuisance. I can see home folders in the same partition for
> other users (from other distros I have installed on the same PC) but not my
> own.
>
> Any ideas why it keeps getting hidden and how to prevent it getting hidden?
>
>
> David K
>
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