kesey wrote: 
> Hi Albert,
> 
> Have you an older SoA image (an .img file which you backed up sometime
> this year or so)? If you have, restore this to your micro SD card and
> ensure that you can boot from that older .img file. Once you have done
> that, prior to making any updates reboot your Wandboard and ensure that
> it boots up, gets an IP address etc.
> 
> Just in case the version of Perl is causing a dependency problem, do the
> following once you have restored your older SoA .img and prior to doing
> anything else.
> 
> SSH in and edit
> /etc/pacman.conf
> 
> Uncomment 'IgnorePkg' then edit that line as follows;
> 
> IgnorePkg = perl 
> 
> and save the edited pacman.conf file. Reboot, and SSH in again. 
> 
> At this stage, you can begin the update process via SSH, viz:
> 
> pacman -Syy
> pacman -Su
> pacman -Sy uboot-wandboard
> 
> Best of luck,
> 
> kesey

Hi kesey,

Many thanks for your further instructions.

Yes, I have got triple backup on three different hard drives just in
case;)

Editing the pacman.conf file did the trick. Something odd is happening
though. I can get access the SoA web page but when I SSH to my WQUAD I
get this error message:


Code:
--------------------
    [email protected]'s password: 
  Permission denied, please try again.
  [email protected]'s password:
--------------------


Any thoughts? Thanks a lot!


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