installed some updates on ubuntu 9.10 then onwards an not access my home folder or video,pictures,documents folders

Before to go deeply please try this...

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal or if you can't please press ctrl+alt+f2 to access to a pseudo terminal and made login with your user and password

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

 hi marcobra (Marco Braida) and thanks for reply i did exactly what u suggested but even that didnot worked still having same problem.

Thanks and Regards

Fire up a terminal with:

CTRL+ALT+T

then run this command:

ls -la $HOME

What is output?

 @actionparsnip this is the output from ls -la $HOME

drwxr-xr-x 55 kapil kapil 4096 2010-08-02 13:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-07-30 12:53 ..
drwx------ 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-05 00:08 .adobe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kapil kapil 1618985 2009-09-18 14:17 ARM926-Development-Board.pdf
-rw------- 1 kapil kapil 733 2010-08-01 15:39 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 220 2010-01-04 00:31 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 3180 2010-01-04 00:31 .bashrc
drwx------ 10 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-04 18:29 .cache
drwx------ 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-08 18:12 chanakya
drwxr-xr-x 19 kapil kapil 4096 2010-06-25 00:57 College
drwxr-xr-x 14 kapil kapil 4096 2010-08-01 15:33 .config
drwx------ 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 02:50 .dbus
drwxr-xr-x 8 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-26 23:58 Desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 36 2010-08-02 12:59 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x 4 kapil kapil 4096 2010-03-07 16:55 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-31 20:46 Downloads
-rw------- 1 kapil kapil 16 2010-01-04 02:50 .esd_auth
drwxr-xr-x 7 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-09 08:55 .evolution
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 167 2010-01-04 00:31 examples.desktop
drwx------ 6 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 03:09 FAREWELL
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kapil kapil 0 2009-04-12 17:43 file2
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-04 01:33 .fontconfig
drwx------ 5 kapil kapil 4096 2010-08-02 13:04 .gconf
drwx------ 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-08-02 13:00 .gconfd
-rw-r----- 1 kapil kapil 0 2010-07-31 19:16 .gksu.lock
drwx------ 8 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-31 21:55 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-30 12:49 .gnome2_private
drwx------ 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-08-02 12:59 .gnupg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kapil kapil 869633 2008-11-26 20:57 gsm.pdf
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-08-01 19:01 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 179 2010-08-02 13:00 .gtk-bookmarks
dr-x------ 2 kapil kapil 0 2010-08-02 12:59 .gvfs
-rw------- 1 kapil kapil 33528 2010-08-02 12:59 .ICEauthority
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 02:53 .icons
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-07 23:49 Image
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-03-06 19:17 India.v.South.Africa.2nd.ODI.Highlights.2010.XviD-xDR
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kapil kapil 506368 2009-03-18 11:04 Introduction of RINEX21.ppt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kapil kapil 646626 2008-12-13 08:42 J2ME Fundamental.pdf
drwx------ 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-08 00:11 .kde
drwxr-xr-x 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-13 11:31 .kdevduchain
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-25 23:56 Kurradu
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kapil kapil 1014272 2009-06-01 00:27 linux answers.doc
drwx------ 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 02:52 .local
drwx------ 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-05 00:08 .macromedia
drwx------ 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-19 00:21 .mission-control
drwx------ 4 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 23:10 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-20 18:39 .mplayer
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 87706149 2010-01-15 04:44 Muscular Development
drwxr-xr-x 5 kapil kapil 4096 2010-04-17 21:34 Music
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kapil kapil 6276038 2009-09-21 14:24 m.zip
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 02:50 .nautilus
drwxr-xr-x 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-16 09:35 .netbeans
drwxr-xr-x 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-16 09:35 .netbeans-registration
drwxr-xr-x 3 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-10 00:23 .openoffice.org
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 57228 2010-01-23 13:25 .pdf
drwxr-xr-x 10 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-09 00:19 Pictures
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 675 2010-01-04 00:31 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 140485 2010-01-23 13:28 .ps
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 02:50 Public
drwx------ 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-08-02 12:59 .pulse
-rw------- 1 kapil kapil 256 2010-01-04 02:50 .pulse-cookie
drwx------ 6 kapil kapil 4096 2010-08-01 19:17 .purple
-rw------- 1 kapil kapil 9665 2010-07-13 14:46 .recently-used
-rw------- 1 kapil kapil 34347 2010-07-30 13:09 .recently-used.xbel
drwx------ 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 02:50 .ssh
-rw-r--r-- 1 kapil kapil 0 2010-01-04 02:50 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x 4 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-31 21:54 .sudoku
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 02:50 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-04 02:53 .themes
drwx------ 5 kapil kapil 4096 2010-04-13 12:43 .thumbnails
drwx------ 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-04-15 23:54 .tsclient
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-30 00:33 .update-manager-core
drwx------ 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-30 00:32 .update-notifier
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-07-09 00:51 Videos
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-04-13 12:43 .wapi
-rwxrwxrwx 1 kapil kapil 7824896 2008-11-22 13:22 workshop-ppt.ppt
drwxr-xr-x 2 kapil kapil 4096 2010-01-08 00:12 .xine
-rw------- 1 kapil kapil 4390 2010-08-02 13:13 .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 kapil kapil 28907 2010-08-01 20:17 .xsession-errors.old

Thanks and Regards

I have exactly the same problem and would be informed on further developments.

Ton

What about if you run:

nautilus

from a terminal, what is output?

 well today morning i've installed Ubuntu 10.04,thanks for possible support.

@actionparsnip However i did tried nautilus form terminal previously it gave me some error and quit.

Thanks and Regards

 well today morning i've installed Ubuntu 10.04,thanks for possible support.

@actionparsnip However i did tried nautilus form terminal previous version and it gave me some errors and quit.

Thanks and Regards

Just nothing happens! no output.

2010/8/10 actionparsnip <email address hidden>

> Question #119547 on nautilus in ubuntu changed:
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> actionparsnip requested for more information:
> What about if you run:
>
> nautilus
>
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 @ton gruter yap when i tried nautilus in previous ubuntu it should have opened my home folder but instead it gave me some errors n then quit without doing anything

Thanks and Regards