opkg update causes BBB to corrupt OS

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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?

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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?

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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?

(a) you can load the OS image onto an SD card and flash the eMMC as described here, http://learn.adafruit.com/beaglebone-black-installing-operating-systems/overview

(b) you can format said SD card after you restore the original image and use it for extra storage on the B3, as shown here, http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD

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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