Easwar Hariharan wrote:
Rony wrote:
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?
The luser account is the same as the user account.
Again, corrupted files?
Please see the next sentence or para.I chowned my way there.It was inaccessible because i was not the owner.(I was Knoppix root,NOT Mandriva root)
/home folder does not need special root privileges to read. Why did you not see the /home files as Mandriva's root? Knoppix root can read files of normally working distros. If you had a bad installation there is a good possibility that your file system is corrupted. If you are using a separate home partition, is it exclusively used for Mandriva or did you use it for another distro too? Try doing a clean install by formating all your partitions needed for Mandriva. As far as installation is concerned Mandriva installs flawlessly. If your copy of media is bad, get another one. If you can't get another one, let me know.