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musclemanjr
December 20th, 2010, 01:16 AM
Hi everybody,

I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my machine. I logged in and installed a few programs like wine. Everything went fine until I rebooted. Now, after I log in, it gives me 2 error messages:

One about how it could not update ICEAuthority or something

Another about how usr/lib/libconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check2 returned status 256.

Then, something else pops up about how Nautilus can't find or doesn't have permission to write to home/user/Desktop and home/user/.nautilus.

I tried booting in recovery mode and did a dir on /home, but nothing showed up, which makes me think that they somehow disappeared or they aren't being shown.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

PhantmKllr
December 20th, 2010, 03:51 AM
Hi everybody,

I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my machine. I logged in and installed a few programs like wine. Everything went fine until I rebooted. Now, after I log in, it gives me 2 error messages:

One about how it could not update ICEAuthority or something

Another about how usr/lib/libconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check2 returned status 256.

Then, something else pops up about how Nautilus can't find or doesn't have permission to write to home/user/Desktop and home/user/.nautilus.

I tried booting in recovery mode and did a dir on /home, but nothing showed up, which makes me think that they somehow disappeared or they aren't being shown.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
What programs did you Install?

sikander3786
December 20th, 2010, 10:09 AM
Welcome to the forums :-)

From Recovery Mode, we need to see the output of this command.


ls /home