Xubuntu upgrade

[wiin]

I updated Gutsy using Gutsy's Update to the latest version. After putting in my username and password(after the update), I get the following message:

"Your /Home directory does not appear to exist. Do you want to log in with the /(Root) as your Home directory? It is unlikely it will work work unless you use fail/safe session."

Responding with "No" takes me back to the logon screen.

Responding with "Yes" elicited the following message:

"User's $Home/.dmrc is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permission. User's $Home
directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users."

I click on "OK" ( the only option available with this message) and i am taken to a blank screen.

Can anyone help? GRUB is still functioning - I am stil presented with the choice of booting into Gutsy or Xp. I tried booting in Recovery mode but the end result is the same.






Thanks for responding guys. i decided to take the easy way out --- I deleted the partitions and did a clean install of 8.04. Once again.thanks for responding.

 

[aceO07]

Boot up with an Ubuntu LiveCD. It should give you access to your drive and you can see what's going on.

 

[silverpig]

Boot into a failsafe terminal to see what's going on (or after those messages hit <alt>+<F2> to get a terminal).

Do you have /home on a different partition? I've had problems with that before and it was due to some kernel issue I believe... Oh, try using the recovery boot mode (you should see an option for that in grub... you can boot a kernel or that same kernel with a recovery option). If it's the same problem I had, you should see a lot of dev-mapper errors coming up. Just put that error into google and you'll find the solution.

 

[sourceninja]

yea, how is your system partitioned? What is the contents of your fstab file? And finally, did the permissiosn change on your home folder?