Easwar Hariharan wrote:
Hi, I have had a prety bad experience with Mandriva 07.I have lost THREE luser accounts and all my docs,pics and music twice coz the third time today,I used a Knoppix 5.0 live CD.The typical error message is that the $HOME/._dmrc file or something like that is being ignored coz either i either don't own my HOME or it does not exist at all!
Your hard disk could be getting baddy baddy or FS is corrupted. BTW, what is an luser account and how different is it from user?
Another paradox is that when I login to mandriva with root (/root) as my home directory,my /home is empty except for an empty lost+found folder but when I browse to the same location thru the Knoppix live CD,it showed me my stuff though it was inaccessible to me.
Again, corrupted files?
Also see if replacing the HDD data cable helps.