Problem with home directory

[Alex Katebi]

I had similar problem. Mine was due to Ubuntu installation option that
encrypts the home dir files. I did not know how to undo this option post
installation. I did a fresh reinstall without that option.



On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Since about 2 weeks I have a big problem accessing my home directory. Every
> application (file manager, emacs, firefox, konsole eg ls ~ ...) that wants
> to
> access the listing of my home dir, stalls for several minutes. This problem
> does not exist for any other directory.
>
> I do not have a big file in home, and their is 15% free disk space.
>
> Another problem, perhaps related to the previous problem, is that printing
> takes also a real long time (minutes before I get a printer selection from
> cups).
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> Tx/Alain
>
>
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