An update: For once I could login to my old user account, so I am sure that my password is true. Then I let it run for 1 hour, then when I reboot it, same problem exists. I cannot connect to it.
On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 2:34:20 PM UTC+3, frank brewer wrote: > > Hello all, > > After a month of not even powering up my BBB, today I needed to do > something so I powered on my board. However I could not ssh to my device, > could not even ping it at first few tries. I kept rebooting and after some > time I could ping to my device however when I tried to login to my account, > I got incorrect password error. However I think it is not very plausible > that I changed and forgot the password. Probably it cannot find the user. > (You can even try ssh [email protected]) Also I logged in as > root user and tried to change my account's password as: passwd userName > pass however I got the error userName cannot be found. How can I make sure > that my old account still exists? > > Also I have another SD card with the same debian distro, lets call it SD > card #2. When I plugged that card, I can successfuly ssh to it everytime, > but with my old SD card it depends. If I plug it after SD card #2 I do not > experience any issues but if I plug it off and then plug it in, mostly I > cannot ping it. As a solution, I insert SD card #2 then plug my other card > than it works. But the main problem is this: > > > If I plug SD Card #1, make some changes like adding folders etc, I can > still see them when I plug SD Card #2. Exactly the same files are > available, does not matter which card I insert. Also I tried the extreme > case: I changed the root password when SD Card #2 is inserted, then plugged > it off and inserted SD Card #1, its root password was changed as well. > (Order does not matter.) > > So I guess, I cannot boot from SD card, only making changes on eMMC. What > can I do for it? I really need the files, configurations, libraries that > were on my user account. > > Kind Regards, > Frank -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/896663b7-9755-4846-92c0-cf25801ee08b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
