I've been using Ubuntu 14.04 for a few months (as a beginner)! A couple days ago I changed the user name to NEWUSER
and got stuck at the login screen afterwards, though being able to login from the command line (using Ctrl+Alt+F1
). I searched a lot and made changes on lightdm
, gdm
, .Xauthority
, etc. Now I can login but it doesn't show anything after login. However, I created another user SECONDUSER
with admin right and it works just fine.
Then I found that (I guess) my home folder is encrypted! When I login with NEWUSER
from the command line I see this message:
cannot chmod into mountpoint
and when I do ls
, I see:
Access-Your-Private-Data.Desktop README.TXT
In README.TXT, it says I should do:
ecryptfs-mount-private
but it returns:
Encrypted private directory is not setup properly
Also, when I try to enter the home directory of NEWUSER
using SECONDUSER
, it returns:
Permission denied
Anyways, I need to fix the NEWUSER
to be able to use it like before and access my data. Any help, possibly with detailed commands is appreciated.