Wil, worked great!!! Thanks for your help!!! Andrew On Monday, March 17, 2014 8:04:57 PM UTC-4, Wilfredo Nieves wrote:
> 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....@gmail.com<javascript:>> > 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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.
