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Try this. While logged in as root go to Settings, System Administration, MEPIS Utilities and make a new User Account, see if you can boot into the new account ok, if you can then move any files that you want to save from your old account to your new user account and delete your old account that would not work and then you can make it over again.

regards,
Bad Dog
SimplyMEPIS 6.0 - kernel 2.6.15-26-686-SMP - KDE 3.5.3

Bad Dog,
your method for this problem is not good,
no one likes to move their data into new account,

to solve the problem you must do
- check if /home parition is mounted
- if not, (after sudden reboot, it should not) run fsck of /home partition, so, from root type
#fsck.partition_type /dev/h(s)da6
- if something wrong is found, fsck should be able to repair it
- if all is ok, mount it by
#mount /dev/h(s)da6
- you may check the /etc/fastab if all entries are ok
- logon into your favorite account

and thats all

I had the same problem, in my case it was due to old permissions. I was upgrading from Mandriva Linux and my new id wasnt the same as earlier.

The solution is to change permissions. Example my login is henly. You need to type these commands as root:
# cd /home
# ll
drwx--x--x 86 500 500 8192 2007-02-02 15:46 henly
there you can see uid and gid 500 belongs to nobody
# chgrp -R users henly/
# chown -R henly henly/
# ll
drwx--x--x 86 henly users 8192 2007-02-02 15:46 henly
now it seems to be alright