Well, couldn't figure out what was wrong but undid my footsteps, uninstalled all that was related to scim, and now I'm able to log back in.

Thanks a lot for your reply.

Hi everybody, I searched on several forums and didn't find anything related to my problem so I hope someone here can help. I actually use Mint but it's the Debian edition s I hope this is the right forum.

I was trying to install japanese language support but I must have done something wrong because now I can't log in. At one point I had to restart the computer and now I get the login screen (when I used to login automatically), I type the password over and over again but I get the same login screen and can't get past that. I'm writing from my XP partition in the meantime but all my files and stuff from work are in the linux part so I can't get anything done.

Here's what I did, step by step, hoping someone can point out what I did wrong and how to get it right again.

Via synaptic installed anthy, scim, scim-anthy, scim-tables-ja, scim-bridge-agent and scim-bridge-client-gtk.
Then via terminal:

# dpkg-reconfigure locales

# gedit /etc/scim/global

# gedit /etc/scim/config

# im-switch -s none

# im-config -s none

# im-switch -s none

Where did I go wrong? can someone help me correct it?

Thanks!

Hi mfillpot.

You were right, I modified /etc/fstab, mounted my "old" /home and have my data back where it used to.

Thanks a lot for replying!

Hi everyone.

I've searched for a while now but can't seem to find anything about my problem. Hope someone here has a clue.

The thing is I had to re-install LMDE, but only the / partition because I didn't want to loose some configuration files and other info I had on /home. But after re-installing I went to /home/my_user only to find out it was empty, well not empty, but only with the usual default folders and settings, as if it had been re-installed as well. After a short moment of panicking I noticed a new 6G partition, mounted it and saw all the info I thought I had lost. So, where did the "new" /home came from? and how do I restore my original /home so I don't have to mount it every time?
I'd never re-installed like this so an additional question would be: is it normal or did I mess up during the process?

Hope I was clear, I thought this was pretty weird so I hope someone can help. Thanks!