Linux Mint does not start after renaming home directory

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Published on 2011-03-20T02:49:02Z Indexed on 2011/03/20 8:12 UTC
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I am new to linux and was just trying to rename the only directory in home from rk to rhk.

I messed up the whole thing and the settings. Created some new thing named rhk which I can't remember as it got all messed up and Now I am getting nothing after Linux Mint 10(julia) boots up - no start menu, no panel, no taskbar nothing.

I tried to work in the recovery mode and got some(downloaded) 216mb of something(in the repair broken packages) hoping that it might help but didn't help.

Moreover whenver I have booted in it shows messages like

Could not update ICEauthority file /home/rk./.ICEauthority                                                                                                                  
 there is a problem with the configuration server. (usr/lib/libconfig24/gconfsanitycheck2 exited with status 256)                                                                                                                                         
 The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID: GNOME_mintMenu"                                                                                                               
 The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFIID: GNOME_IndicatorApplet" 
 Naulitis could not create the following reqiured folders: /home/rk/Desktop, /home/rk/. Naulitis

Moreover Alt+F2 gives Run application or run with file and nothing seems to be working.

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