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I just upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.2 LTS and opened up a terminal to find a handful of my home directory contents. Basically only Videos/ and a few files see image. However the files and folders are all still there. Autocomplete does not work if I start typing Documents/, but if I do ls Documents/ the content is all there.

The files manager also shows other folders in the side tab, which contain all the relevant files, but the home directory is still reduced:what my file manager looks like.

Here is the content of ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs.

# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run.
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
# 
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

User permissions of the visible and invisible content all seem identical. This is really bizarre:

guillermo@guillermo-TECRA-A40-C:~$ ls
gerrit.ods  noise_nuisance_log.docx  print.pdf  ranking_Cg_rank_0001_to_00-1.pdf  scripts  v6_BSM_Coupling.tar.gz  Videos
guillermo@guillermo-TECRA-A40-C:~$ mkdir Pictures
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘Pictures’: File exists

Any ideas? :_(

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

 echo $HOME
/home/guillermo
GuilleH
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  • Can you check whether the root filesystem (or at least, where /tmp is mounted) is full and/or non-writeable? Autocomplete relies on the shell being able to create a temporary file in /tmp, and if that filesystem is full or non-writeable it won't work. 'df /tmp' from the command line, or 'echo Hello > tmp/text' will both give a clue. Not sure if that is the whole situation, but it might be part of what is going on. – ColinB Jul 26 '19 at 11:34
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    Please [edit] your question to include the output of command cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs – steeldriver Jul 26 '19 at 12:06
  • Thanks @ColinB , everything with /tmp seems fine, I can write to the filesystem, and indeed ls works fine in other directories. – GuilleH Jul 27 '19 at 21:02
  • Hi @steeldriver , thanks for the response. I added the content you suggested, but it looks like this is not the issue since the folders are there. Maybe I should have mentioned that my home directory is encrypted, so could there be some wonkyness going on in the mount? – GuilleH Jul 27 '19 at 21:05
  • Your ls command doesn't reveal permissions. Use ll command instead. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Jul 27 '19 at 21:33
  • @WinEunuuchs2Unix I already checked permissions, everything is normal. – GuilleH Jul 27 '19 at 21:35
  • I just created a directory in my $HOME and it won't shown up with ls, but I can still cd into it and create files etc. Maneuvering my filesystem with dired in emacs I see the same thing. – GuilleH Jul 27 '19 at 21:36
  • Update Your question with alias ls and echo $HOME output and ls -la. – Michal Przybylowicz Jul 27 '19 at 21:39
  • Hi @MichalPrzybylowicz, thanks, I added the alias and echoed my home, I already have ls -la info in the attached image: alias ll='ls -alF' – GuilleH Jul 27 '19 at 21:45
  • Have You rebooted Your PC after upgrade? These folders should be automatically created after reboot... or run this command xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update as per this answer : https://askubuntu.com/questions/580155/how-do-i-restore-a-places-folder-i-accidentally-deleted-in-nautilus – Michal Przybylowicz Jul 27 '19 at 21:51
  • Hi@MichalPrzybylowicz, yes I rebooted, several times now. All my folders are still there from the filesystem before I upgrade Ubuntu, they where not created again. – GuilleH Jul 27 '19 at 21:54

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