Hi Adam If you hit ctrl+alt+f1 it will bring up a console, then just enter passwd and enter a password. Then enter systemctl restart gdm.service which brings the login screen back up. Select other, user=root and password=pass you entered. That should get you logged in as root.
-Wil On Nov 14, 2013 1:44 PM, "Adam Pasternak" <paster...@gmail.com> wrote: > After rebooting a few times, now the B^3 boots to a logon screen giving me > three choices of login accounts: > > mpd > xuser > Other.. > > I cannot log in to the Beaglebone Black as any of these users, because the > user password is unknown. And who is "mpd" and "xuser" anyway? > > On Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:26:33 PM UTC-5, Adam Pasternak wrote: >> >> I attempted to install updates to support the rlt8192cu chipset for a >> wireless NIC to use with my BBB. Following Circuitco's own website and >> tutorial at this URL: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:WiFi >> >> I followed the steps, and got to the command *opkg -t /home/root/tmp >> upgrade *Seeing this would take a long time, I stepped away from the >> monitor for an hour and when I came back, the terminal reported that the >> update procedure had run into issues with no more space remaining on the >> mounted drive. When I restarted the B^3, the screen appears frozen and >> unresponsive to mouse/keyboard with the message "Could not update >> ICEauthority file /var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthority" >> >> Did I just brick my B^3 ? >> >> If so, can anyone tell me (a) how to restore the original image and (b) >> is this update at the above URL even possible now, because it seems that >> there isn't even enough space on the onboard memory to add any support for >> wireless cards? >> >> >> -- > 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
