An update:

For once I could login to my old user account, so I am sure that my 
password is true. Then I let it run for 1 hour, then when I reboot it, same 
problem exists. I cannot connect to it.

On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 2:34:20 PM UTC+3, frank brewer wrote:
>
> Hello all, 
>
> After a month of not even powering up my BBB, today I needed to do 
> something so I powered on my board. However I could not ssh to my device, 
> could not even ping it at first few tries. I kept rebooting and after some 
> time I could ping to my device however when I tried to login to my account, 
> I got incorrect password error. However I think it is not very plausible 
> that I changed and forgot the password. Probably it cannot find the user. 
> (You can even try ssh [email protected]) Also I logged in as 
> root user and tried to change my account's password as: passwd userName 
> pass however I got the error userName cannot be found. How can I make sure 
> that my old account still exists? 
>
> Also I have another SD card with the same debian distro, lets call it SD 
> card #2. When I plugged that card, I can successfuly ssh to it everytime, 
> but with my old SD card it depends. If I plug it after SD card #2 I do not 
> experience any issues but if I plug it off and then plug it in, mostly I 
> cannot ping it. As a solution, I insert SD card #2 then plug my other card 
> than it works. But the main problem is this: 
>
>
> If I plug SD Card #1, make some changes like adding folders etc, I can 
> still see them when I plug SD Card #2. Exactly the same files are 
> available, does not matter which card I insert. Also I tried the extreme 
> case: I changed the root password when SD Card #2 is inserted, then plugged 
> it off and inserted SD Card #1, its root password was changed as well. 
> (Order does not matter.) 
>
> So I guess, I cannot boot from SD card, only making changes on eMMC. What 
> can I do for it? I really need the files, configurations, libraries that 
> were on my user account. 
>
> Kind Regards, 
> Frank

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