If you do Ctrl + Alt + F1 it will give you a console at the login screen and IIRC "gdm.service restart" will bring the login screen back up.
-Wil On Mar 17, 2014 4:22 PM, "New Guy, Old Man" <andrew.r.wi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I upgraded from the command line on emmc using update / upgrade and was > rewarded with a splash screen i cant get past...as above. I updated on > March 17, 2014. > > I have tried all the things on this page so far...1) cant get in to ssh > (usb) because when i try it says that connection has been closed by remote, > 2) the Cloud9 solution returns that it failed to download. > > I am new to linux command line, its honestly why i bought this thing...to > learn. right now i have a $65.00 paperweight with a cool splash screen but > cant get beyond the password. > > Why isnt there a generic password set on update as with other linux > distros to avoid threads like this? > > Forgive my newness i really am trying and not being lazy here...I have > been all over the internet and I see what you have here echoed, but its not > working for me. additional help would be appreciated. > > On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:46:46 PM UTC-5, camero...@gmail.comwrote: >> >> The best thing to me about BeagleBone Black is its None.js server that is >> running all the time. You can leverage this to run commands even when you >> can't SSH. I ran into your same issue after I did an opkg upgrade. I solved >> by creating a js file in could9 with the below script. Just run from could >> 9 and it will execute commands on your BBB! >> >> // http://nodejs.org/api.html#_child_processes >> var sys = require('sys'); >> var exec = require('child_process').exec; >> var child; >> >> // executes `pwd` >> var command = "opkg install --force-reinstall >> angstrom-gdm-autologin-hack"; >> child = exec(command, function (error, stdout, stderr) { >> sys.print('stdout: ' + stdout); >> sys.print('stderr: ' + stderr); >> if (error !== null) { >> console.log('exec error: ' + error); >> } >> }); >> >> On Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:19:27 AM UTC-5, Gabriel L wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm new to the Beaglebone Black but didn't have problems trying out >>> several OS's. >>> As Ubuntu was too slow for my taste I switched back to Angstrom. After >>> loading the latest img to eMMC, several days in a row I could do >>> update/upgrade without a problem until the Angstrom logo appeared. The >>> login procedure was changed drastically as the automatic login was gone and >>> replaced by the choice 'mpd', 'xuser' and 'Other'. As other I tried 'root' >>> but nothing worked. I could not login. I couldn't find the correct >>> passwords anywhere. Can someone help? >>> Thanks. >>> >> -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
