Quote Originally Posted by SunnyB
Quote Originally Posted by gruntbuggly
> 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?
It is an ext2 fs. I didn't want to fsck for fear of further corruption.
I was hoping for a more simple solution. Chown then delete was my hope.
The whole point of fsck is to help with curruptions. I would really suggest useing. And if you don't like it, mabye moving to ext3 would suit you.