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I might have moved my home folder by mistake, and now I'm stuck in a login loop. Every time I log in, the screen just flashes as if it logs in and then asks me to log in again. When pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3 and logging in it says

no directory logging in with home=/

I've looked around and it seems I've messed up the location of my home folder. But how do I fix it?

Zanna
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I am hoping you have GRUB or some sort of bootloader which will make this repair easier, otherwise you will need to make repairs by mounting your filesystem on a separate system which works.

If you open grub and add systemd.unit=emergency-net.target to your command line options it will boot your system into emergency mode which should drop you into a root command prompt where you can fix any issue with your system.

If you are not worried about the old content of the directory you can just create another for your user. You can create a directory for your user automatically by running mkhomedir_helper username

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@Kulfy suggested this link: Older thread That did it. Could login and access my folders!

mkkl
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