Arduino YUN not able to upload a sketch - Help

Hello, Our YUN is no longer accepting a sketch anymore.
Uploading a sketch via WIFI produces this error message: avrdude: AVR device not responding avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1

A USB connection cannot be established using a macbook or windows. We tried from both a MacBook and from a windows machine known to work with other arduino. Therefore there is no way to upload a sketch over USB.

The WIFI works well on the YUN. We are able to login via WIFI without issue.

We are able to SSH to it after connecting via WIFI.

Ethernet works fine also.

To try and fix, we updated the linino image on the YUN. This went perfect, but did not change any symptoms. http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/YunSysupgrade

To validate its not the cable, we purchased an additional cable just to rule that out. It is a data cable. We also have a have a Arduino Duemilanove. We are sure both cables work as they recognize the other arduino and upload sketches to them just fine.

I have completed all these reset options found in the guide.

Right now, whenever it is powered on, the L13 is a constant RED illumination and the power is a constant green. When plugged into either one of our computers there is no response or recognition for USB. Uploading via WIFI receives error detailed above.
We feel linino is good. Wifi is good. But 32U4 has issue.

We have been working on and off for this over a few weeks. We exhausted what we know.This costed too much to put aside as bricked. Thank you for reading.
Can anyone offer advice?

My Yun is also exhibiting this behaviour. After successfully uploading sketches over several days over wifi, the Yun is no longer showing up in the Tools/Port menu. I am able to connect to the Linux side using my web browser and ssh, but the Arduino IDE is now giving the following error, "Board at 10.0.1.3 is not available" when I attempt to upload a sketch. Any help would be most appreciated.

Arduino: 1.5.6-r2 (Mac OS X), Board: "Arduino Yún"

Cheers,
Mike

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@alspad - Does a device show up on the USB when you plug it in? On windows it should be a COM port, I think in mac it should be in /dev/tty something.

ssh into the Yun and execute reset-mcu, does yellow RX let blink after 1-2 seconds?

This does sound like the 32u4 has problems, what shields or other devices have you plugged in?

@quiggers & @ geezerengineer -Your symptoms are quite different from the original poster's, if you describe your symptoms in a separate thread it will make it easier for people to help you.

i open again this topic months after because i have exactly the same trouble win my yun, last ide and last yun firware, does an issue exists ?

gaumet:
i have exactly the same trouble win my yun

Exactly what trouble? There are several different problems being mentioned in this thread, and they all have different reasons.

What exactly are you trying to do, how exactly are you trying to do it, and what error messages are you seeing? What have you done already to try and resolve it? What was the last thing you gad done that worked, and the first thing that didn't?

"It doesn't work" is far to vague to give an meaningful help.