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I had Ubuntu 14.10 installed, but somehow after installing updates my screen started flickering, I could not access anything so I had to reinstall Ubuntu.

First of all, I had separate partitions for the system and /home, since I've heard that this is a good idea, you can reinstall without losing your account and files.

But, after installation finished I expected to see my old user-accounts in the login window but not, nothing there. So I had to login with the new account that I created during installation.

After login in eith that account I can browse to the /home directory and there i can see my accounts, locked with a key-sign.

Maybe its important to mention that I had to install 14.04, not 14.10, could that be the issue?

How do I reactivate my old accounts?

Evandro Silva
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jse71
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If your data in filesystem /home is not deleted, after you reinstall Ubuntu, you can
recovery your data as following:
1) edit your /etc/fstab, add an entry to specify how to mount your /home filesystem
2) chown ${newUser}:${newGroup} -R /home/${oldUser}
3) logout/login

Actually, I didn't try that, but it may work.

zhangjie
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