Herro

When I start my EMPEG it is freezing at the point when it should begin playing the music. I cannot unfreeze it and the USB and LAN sockets are not functioning.
I have taken this log from the serial port. I can see it is not getting me to the command prompt before it freezes. It continues to echo characters to the screen but they have no effect.

Can you clever chaps tell me how to fix it please? I have searched the FAQs.

Cheers.
SW is V3.11. Audio was a .OGG.


empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg55 (peter@tatu) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #16 Mon Jul 25 18:54:48 BST 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read 9afffff0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101510)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004f80).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, 57231MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=7296/255/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:22:05:e
6
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k init player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-al
pha11 2005/07/25.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1485 Jul 25 2005
Vcb: 0x4073a000

Hit Control^C on the serial port after the log you posted appears.

OK here is my log of pressing Control C, sorry!

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg55 (peter@tatu) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #16 Mon Jul 25 18:54:48 BST 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read 9afffff0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101510)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005000).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: WDC WD600VE-75HDT1, 57231MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=7296/255/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:22:05:e
6
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initPlayer received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
cStarting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
cPlayer received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Shell exit
player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-alpha11 2005/07/25.
Player received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Shell exit
player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-alpha11 2005/07/25.
Player received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Shell exit
player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-alpha11 2005/07/25.
CProlux 4 empeg car - 2.1485 Jul 25 2005
Vcb: 0x4073a000
^HPlayer received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
Player received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-alpha11 2005/07/25.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1485 Jul 25 2005
Vcb: 0x4073a000
Player received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-alpha11 2005/07/25.
Player received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
player.cpp : 587:empeg-car 3.00-alpha11 2005/07/25.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1485 Jul 25 2005
Vcb: 0x4073a000

Been a while since 'I read an empeg boot log, but I believe you've got the consumer version of the software loaded on the player - it doesn't provide a shell. Load the 'developer' version instead and try again!

Which you can find at the Latest Software link at the top of the page. I'd recommend the v2.00 developer edition if you have an unmodified empeg.

What also should help is hitting the "forward" button during the boot process repeatedly until it skips the song that locks up the player. I had the same problem recently and it worked for me.

Peter

Yeah. Happens to me about once a month. I've learned how to skip it on bootup so it's not a big deal any more.

My Empeg also locks up when displaying the birth days.

I'm running v3.00 A11.

Hey Mike. Long time no see. How's things?

I am sure Anita will be only to happy to sort that out for you