My password has suddenly failed to work

A password used for years has suddenly failed to unlock my MacBook. Any suggestions?

You have done exceedingly well to get 4years.. that is about double the normal lifespan.
Apple did have an extended warranty for them but since all TC made in 2008 have now passed 3years the program is finished.. no warranty is offered for product older than 3years.. it is well and truly past its useby (at least so Apple think).. Repair is possible but the price of a new one is perhaps 3x the repair cost unless you DIY. Which I also encourage. The exception of course is where you have vital data.. stored under the erronous idea that the TC was reliable storage.. a full repair to the TC ends up cheaper than any other form of data recovery.. plus you get a working TC out of it you can keep or resell.

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First thing i tried was throwing away the sparsebundle on the nas and disabling all services on it except those that are needed to get the backup done.
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06/12/13 21:52:05,283 diskimages-helper[374]: terminating disk2 - image is no longer available
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,320 com.apple.backupd[294]: Stopping backup to allow backup destination disk to be unmounted or ejected.
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
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06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
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06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
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06/12/13 21:52:05,000 kernel[0]: disk2s2: 0xe000c2e4 (UNDEFINED).
06/12/13 21:52:05,999 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
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06/12/13 21:52:06,000 com.apple.backupd[294]: Error writing to backup log. NSFileHandleOperationException:*** -[NSConcreteFileHandle writeData:]: Input/output error
06/12/13 21:52:06,025 com.apple.backupd[294]: Backup canceled.
06/12/13 21:52:16,383 diskarbitrationd[20]: loginwindow [45]:37007 not responding.
06/12/13 21:52:17,000 kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on Time Machine Backups on device disk2s2
06/12/13 21:52:17,700 com.apple.backupd[294]: Ejected Time Machine disk image: /Volumes/TMBackup/Ellerts MBP.sparsebundle
06/12/13 21:52:18,000 kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/TMBackup, flags 0, pid 483
06/12/13 21:52:18,000 kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0xffffff80275feca0
06/12/13 21:52:18,000 kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Detach: Reply queue not empty?
06/12/13 21:52:18,644 com.apple.backupd[294]: Ejected Time Machine network volume.
I am quite in the dark what is going on here, or how to fix it.

Hi there Ellert van Koperen,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
Time Machine: Troubleshooting backup issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3275
-Griff W.

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If you're in a country where there's an apple shop (unfortunately not mine), go check it and ask the employee about it: he's gonna check your Iphone on a "device"
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MaryArthur:
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