I'm using Ubuntu 14.04; during a routine software update the PC crash for some reason. Here is the situation now:
Looping during desktop log-in: each time I try to log-in via the desktop it loops back to the same screen.
ctrl + alt + F1 and SSH log-ins work and I can browse the file directory.
Problem -> /home directory is missing all the files and folders! There are indications that files are still on the hard drive (i.e. disk usage ~17GB data on it etc.)
Used "TestDisk" to make an image and PhotoRec to extract whatever I can. There are snippets of my files here and there but all scattered.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Update: This message shows up too: "No directory logging in with home=/"
Update: Running "lsblk" outputs
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part
sda2 8:2 0 600G 0 part
sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part
sda5 8:5 0 3.7G 0 part [SWAP]
sda6 8:6 0 327.7G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 238.5G 0 disk
sdb1 8:17 0 128M 0 part
sdb2 8:18 0 238.4G 0 part
Running df -h outputs
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 323G 17G 290G 6% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 16G 4.0K 16G 1% /dev
tmpfs 3.2G 1.3M 3.2G 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 16G 144K 16G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 40K 100M 1% /run/user
Update: Running ls -la outputs:
total 116
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Sep 17 21:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Sep 17 21:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 15:53 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 14 16:14 boot
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Sep 14 15:33 .cache
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 17:50 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4180 Sep 18 11:52 dev
drwxr-xr-x 135 root root 12288 Sep 18 11:52 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 15:20 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Sep 14 14:59 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-35-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Aug 27 10:33 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-34-generic
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Sep 14 16:14 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 14:56 lib32
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 14:56 lib64
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 May 23 17:48 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 23 18:02 media
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 23 19:45 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 24 18:31 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 166 root root 0 Sep 18 04:52 proc
drwx------ 10 root root 4096 Sep 14 17:02 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 6 08:41 .rpmdb
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 760 Sep 18 11:54 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Sep 14 16:14 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 16 18:21 srv
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Sep 18 04:52 sys
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 4096 Sep 18 11:54 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 May 24 18:15 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Apr 16 18:29 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Sep 14 14:59 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-35-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Aug 27 10:33 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-34-generic
ls -la /home output:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 14 15:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Sep 17 21:37 ..
