> I had to reset. I was locked up hard.
> For example, the ".Xauthority" has owner 1531901541 and the group is 1635018088.
> The sizes show as 1.7Gb for the files and 774Mb for the directory.

The filenames are normal, but the numbers and sizes are insane. I suspect the reset has done bad things to the metadata for those files, which is confusing the kernel. Have you done a manual fsck? Which filesystem are you using?