I recently had a login loop that kept sending me back to the login screen no matter how many times I entered the correct password. I decided to login accessing the terminal directly by pressing cntrl+alt+F1, where I entered my username and password. After doing so, I got the following message:
Signature not found in user keyring Perhaps try the interactive 'encryptfs-mount-private' To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo commando". See "man sudo_root" for details. In any case, I could now access the terminal. However, my /home/<username> folder didn't have the files that are usually there, there were just the usual folders (Desktop, Downloads, Videos, etc.) and two new files: README.txt and Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop. To access the latter, it asked me for my login passphrase, which I don't remember, if I ever set one.
After looking for info online I launched the command sudo chmod 777 /home/<username> and now I can login through the login screen, but the desktop has the default wallpaper and none of the folders I usually have there. The /home/<username> folder is just the same, with the two new files and none of the usual ones.
Any idea what is going on and how could I solve it? I'm using Linux mint.
Thank you for your responses.
