ICE authority file problem? - my user files have disappeared
I have been using Mandriva for 5 years, currently with 2010.2 installed, but what's 'under the hood' remains a mystery to me.
When I switched on my computer this morning I could not log in to my user accounts, and got the messages: "Could not update ICE authority file /home/myusername /. ICE authority" "There is a problem with server configuration (/usr/lib/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)" (actually the message was in Spanish, but this was the gist of it). I can log in as xguest and can create new users, but my existing users and all my data files have vanished. I have found reference to similar problems, but none of the suggested solutions seems to work for me. How can I recover my user data files (if I can)? |
User should be able to write that file.
change permissions as root and check. |
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At this point I am concerned that I have lost all my data files, as my user folders have disappeared from the /home folder. |
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Your files may be encrypted? |
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Thank you for taking the trouble to reply, but in the meantime (a week has gone by) I have used "Photo Rec" software to recover my files quite successfully, although the original file names were lost, and have reinstalled Linux from scratch. I don't know what happened. I have searched high and low but have found no explanation for this problem. It has meant a lot of wasted time, although luckily I have been able to recover my user data files. |
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