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I followed your first solution and everything seems to work just fine: I'm now able to log in again with my normal user. I had to reset some stuff of my old desktop, such as wallpaper, themes, fonts,...

I already did this:

sudo mkdir /home/cristian
So just the '-p' is missing, don't know if it's essential...anyway the directory /cristian is already there...empty of course.

Done this and I found out my personal directory (home) is here: /usr/share/cristian/
All my stuff is still there!!!
Do you know how to put it back in the right place either from live-session or...

Here are the results from the last suggestions:


xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Desktop$ cat /media/xubuntu/GNU\ linux/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the...

@steeldriver: do you think I still have a chance to have my /home directory in my system?
I booted a live-session from dvd and looked into the partition where my xubuntu is and found this:
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Looking in a blog I found a command to reset the gnome settings to defaults. It's quite old and I don't know if it can work on my xubuntu 14.04.
Once I get the log in screen I hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 for...

I tried to reboot and when I got the log in window I used the terminal to get in.
Then I tried with:
sudo mkdir /home/myusername
sudo reboot
But the next reboot nothing changed and I couldn't log...

@Oldfred: here's what you asked me to do earlier:

xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -f -v /dev/sda3

...

Thanks.Here's the result:

xubuntu@xubuntu:~/Desktop$ ls -l /media/xubuntu/GNU\ linux/
total 116
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 24 06:14 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 6 15:19 boot...

Finally I could boot a live session from dvd.
Searching in the partition where my installed xubuntu is, I found this:
255316255317

But when I enetered the command ls -l, I got:
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Thanks for your answer, I have to leave now but I'll try it later. Uffh, I thought it would have been easier:(

Also the line
ls /home gave nothing back.

Hi, thanx for helping me.
My /home is in /. I do have different partitions that I'm not able to open as guest for lack of privileges.
Finally I got the terminal working to log in with Ctrl+Alt+F1,...

Hi everyone,
this is my first post so I hope I'm in the right section and I'll be clear enough to explain the problem I have with my Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS x86_64 (xubuntu desktop).
Right now I'm...

I run ubuntu studio 12.10 and that worked for me too. Easy, fast and smooth.
Thank you!