If you can see your home directory listed in '/' using root-shell in recovery mode, then this might help.

Boot into linux mint recovery mode, then go to root-shell prompt. As it loads the file system in read only mode, you need to remount it with read/write permission, use the following command.

mount -o rw,remount /

after it remounts try these commands and login using your username.

chown root:root /home

chown -R username:username /home/username

(replace 'username' with your own details of course.)

If you can see your home directory listed in '/' using root-shell in recovery mode, then this might help.

Boot into linux mint recovery mode, then go to root-shell prompt. As it loads the file system in read only mode, you need to remount it with read/write permission, use the following command.

mount -o rw,remount / 

after it remounts try these commands and login using your username.

chown root:root /home chown -R username:username /home/username 

(replace 'username' with your own details of course.)