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[Dale Amon <amon@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:34:32AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> smells like it is time for a factory reset, i guess all your tinkering
> while the system was writable got you into that state ...
> 
> to force the os back to a clean state, make sure it is not writable,
> then you can run:
> 
> sudo system-image-cli -b 0 -vv
> 
> that should re-download the image and auto-re-flash the device ...
> 
> if that does not work (because whatever broke also broke system-image)
> you can follow [1] and [2] to use ubuntu-device-flash to re-flash from
> a PC via USB

Might do so. In any case, I did recover from that. I redid the
mknod's on /dev/random and /dev/urandom 

  mknod -m 444 /dev/random c 1 8
  mknod -m 444 /dev/urandom c 1 9

and restarted ssh:

	restart ssh

and now have the ability to connect externally again, although not
from the touch screen. That may just require a restart on something
as well.