I messed up my Pogoplug E02 installation when doing a pacman upgrade and foolishly ignored a dependency with openssl. After a reboot, ssh and samba does not work anymore. The installation itself works and is reachable, because I can still access my plex server on the Pogoplug and stream everything.
Now, what can I do to fix this? SSH does not work anymore.
I tried to re-install the rootfs tarball on another usb stick and boot the pogoplug from there with the intent to chroot it. It does boot, but when I try to SSH it, it just times out. The IP of alarm is there, but I can't even ping it.
Chrooting from an ArchLinux 686 installation does not work because of binary format conflicts, either (exec format error). But I can look through the directories of course. To me, the rest seems rather fine. Don't know why SSH does not start up anymore.
I also thought that my uBoot installation has a rescue system when nothing is mounted/connected to the Pogoplug, so I could SSH it then, but when I don't have anything connected, no IP is given to the pogoplug, so also no SSH there as well. (could be wrong about whether I installed the rescue system in the NAND or not). Unfortunately, no backup or serial connector available.
Is there any way to fix my old, half-working installation?
[Disclaimer: I edited the post, because first I thought the new rootfs does not give me an IP as well. It seems this was due to a broken USB device. It does give me an IP, but it times out when SSH it]