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I cannot open any directory such as Home in Ubuntu. I found the answer here and tried it. I received errors as follows enter image description here

In the terminal there is only one $ sign. No username is there. That was weird to me.

Another error is as follows enter image description here

Also, I was not able to open browsers on Ubuntu 20.04. If I try to open Firefox I receive a popup message "Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible."

Lastly, the operating system freeze several times.

Can anyone let me know what's wrong with the operating system?

Encipher
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    For the first issue, it looks like you may have set your user's home directory to (usually unreadable) /root - please [edit] your question to include the output of getent passwd "$(id -u)". The second error seems unrelated. – steeldriver Nov 18 '23 at 02:45
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    Does this answer your question? How do I remove a malformed line from my sources.list? – karel Nov 18 '23 at 11:14
  • Why did you start Nautilus with sudo? – nobody Nov 18 '23 at 18:06
  • @nobody I don't know. I just tried to find a solution so that I can open the home directory. I am not able to open any directory or browser from the Ubuntu setup. Also, the machine froze if I tried to open the Home directory by clicking on with 4/5 times. – Encipher Nov 20 '23 at 20:09
  • @steeldriver The output of the command you suggested is "myusername:x:1008:1009::/home/myusername:/bin/sh" – Encipher Nov 21 '23 at 17:48
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    Please correct permission in home https://askubuntu.com/questions/140652/12-04-desktop-login-loop#144841 – nobody Nov 21 '23 at 17:54
  • @nobody If I getting you right you ask me to use sudo chown -R user:user /home/user command. I did that and getting an error chown: cannot access '/home/myusername': No such file or directory – Encipher Nov 21 '23 at 17:58
  • @Encipher ah sorry I realize now that the error message about /root was just because you invoked nautilus with sudo - please ignore my previous comment. However it is concerning if your home directory does not exist (or perhaps exists on a separate filesystem, that is not getting mounted?) – steeldriver Nov 21 '23 at 18:02
  • @steeldriver If home does not exist, what can I do? – Encipher Nov 21 '23 at 18:05
  • @Encipher idk - tbh it's hard to understand how you managed to log in to a GUI desktop session with a non-existent home directory - unless you logged in and then moved or deleted it somehow? – steeldriver Nov 21 '23 at 18:25
  • Is this a fresh Install? Something is not right. – nobody Nov 21 '23 at 20:00

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