Hi Guys

Bit of a bizzare one this (for me anyway, not had this problem before).

Went to upload a new album to the 'Peg yesterday evening so I could jive on the way to work. Popped the Empeg into my ML dock as usual and fired up Emplode. So far, so hoopy. Dragged & dropped the folder containing the files to my playlist structure in Emplode and also made a slight config change (the shutdown from standby timer). Hit 'Synch' and waited.

The player rebooted (which I thought was odd) and Emplode waited for it, then skipped through the rest of it's checklist, inlcuding the uploading tunes entry, lightning fast.

When the 'ta-da' had chimed, I checked my new playlist entry and it wasn't there. Neither was my config change. Most odd I thought.

Brief recent software history: Been running Version 2 final with the most recent Hijack. Upgraded to A11 for a short time (made the database fixes) and found it it unstable (crashed now and again), so reverted back to 2.00 final. I did the database fix again after downgrading and the machine is running normally apart from the above problem.

Any clue guys?

You could try jEmplode - I very occasionally get oddness (usually seems connected to network loading) with emplode, but jEmplode seems to work every time - at least on v2 final. On 3alpha11 I usually need an emplode sync after jemplode just to make it all work.

Major, I think you may have run into this problem. I think you may need to FSCK the thing.

I had something similar happen when I tried one of the alphas and then reverted back to 2.0, just like you did. My player works perfectly fine now, and I do all my updates with Emplode 2.0 final.

One thing to check is make sure you're using emplode 2.00 final and not emplode 2.10.

Thanks Tony, I'll Hyperterm into it tomorrow when I've finished my block of nights and report back. Thanks for your help.

Thanks Frog, but I've never got on with jEmplode I'm afraid and this is the 1st time I've ever really had a problem with Emplode. I'll try the FSCK tomorrow and see how I get on. Cheers for your input though.

Well, no joy with that seemingly. Still have the same problem. Couple of issues I had whilst doing the procedure that you linked, Tony. When I typed the lines 'umount /dev/hda4' & 'umount /dev/hdc4' I got a bash error saying 'unmount no such file or directory'. Also, after typing 'fsck -fay /dev/hda4' and waiting a while, the player got to the 5th check and then even after 10 hours, I still couldn't type anything further in Hyperterminal. Had to reboot the player and shutdown/restart hyperterminal before continuing. Perhaps I should try the whole procedure again...

I logged the player booting and an attempt to upload some MP3s. I think the error is when I click synchronise, the player is rebooting rather than writing files or a new config. I can't even edit the config.ini file. Emplode states 'checking media' but the player is rebooting... log follows:

********************************
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 kernel.

Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v477 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Jul 13 14:42:45 EDT 2007

Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11

Checking for extra DRAM:

c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001

NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.

empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102438) 16MB DRAM

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k code, 20k reserved, 364k 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)

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 20706d65 'emp '

Found custom animation at offset 0x9bb84

Tuner: loopback=1, ID=-1

show_message("Hijack v477 by Mark Lord")

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 d0005980).

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...

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555

hda: HTS548040M9AT00, ATA DISK drive

hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive

ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6

hda: HTS548040M9AT00, 38154MB w/7877kB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63

hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63

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:d7:26:09:86

Partition check:

hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4

hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4

RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0

RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\done.

EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended

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 initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: GMT

Hijack: intercepting config.ini


/drive0/var/ttsclock: getopts: `Option
': not a valid identifier
Saved AC volume was 33
Volume=33
emptris v1.3 starting...
hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"

khttpd: listening on port 80

kftpd: listening on port 21

empacman running as pid 23
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000
Adding Swap: 16028k swap-space (priority -1)

disk.cpp : 876:Couldn't cleanly unmount drive 0 (c0041010)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.

Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Restart code received
Starting player
Timezone: GMT

Hijack: intercepting config.ini


/drive0/var/ttsclock: getopts: `Option
': not a valid identifier
Saved AC volume was 33
Volume=33
emptris v1.3 starting...
empacman running as pid 52
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000
******************************

OK, tried again and Hyperterminal didn't lock up this time (what a piece of crap HT is, must find an alternative).

********************************
q
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Player exited normally: 0
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# unmount /dev/hda4
bash: unmount: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# yn  unmount /dev/hdc4
bash: unmount: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# swapon /swapfile
Adding Swap: 16028k swap-space (priority -1)

empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda5 is mounted.

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda5: 1514/4096 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 9457/16384 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /dev/hda4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda4: 9289/304448 files (28.9% non-contiguous), 23484275/38965657 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hdc4 is mounted.

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hdc4: 112/76096 files (3.6% non-contiguous), 22219/9737280 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# swapoff /swapfile
empeg:/empeg/bin# sync
empeg:/empeg/bin#
****************************************


Just tried uploading a tune and it's doing the same thing. Bah. Back to the drawing board. Should I try a reinstallation of Ver 2.0 final player software d'ya think?

Edit: This was the log for the boot immediately after the procedure above...

********************************
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 kernel.

Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v477 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Jul 13 14:42:45 EDT 2007

Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11

Checking for extra DRAM:

c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001

NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.

empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102438) 16MB DRAM

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k code, 20k reserved, 364k 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)

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 20706d65 'emp '

Found custom animation at offset 0x9bb84

Tuner: loopback=1, ID=-1

show_message("Hijack v477 by Mark Lord")

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 d0005a80).

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...

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0080

ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000

ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xffff

ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xaaaa

ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x5555

hda: HTS548040M9AT00, ATA DISK drive

hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive

ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6

hda: HTS548040M9AT00, 38154MB w/7877kB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63

hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63

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:d7:26:09:86

Partition check:

hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4

hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4

RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0

RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\done.

EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended

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 initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: GMT

Hijack: intercepting config.ini


/drive0/var/ttsclock: getopts: `Option
': not a valid identifier
Saved AC volume was 33
Volume=33
emptris v1.3 starting...
hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"

khttpd: listening on port 80

kftpd: listening on port 21

empacman running as pid 23
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000
***********************************

Just to simplify things, and free up some RAM, try nuking emptris and pacman from the startup sequence.

-ml

I can't edit my config.ini. No configuration changes stick, either in config.ini or in the player config. Can I manually edit config.ini via hyperterminal?

OK, config.ini looked like this:

[synchronise]
seq_num=271
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
1=InfoTex OTT
count=1
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
15=Flancedoor
14=InfoTex Twist
13=InfoTex OTT
12=LogDiff 128
11=SpectroLog 128
10=Spectroflip 128
9=Spectrometer 128
8=Anna Vu
7=Oscilloscope LR
6=Oscilloscope
5=Sound Samosa
4=Rorschach
3=SoundFlag
2=Shapescape
1=Scope
count=15
[VisualFavourites_FM]
1=InfoTex OTT
count=1
[Options]
Name=Digit
[User Info]
Email=*******
Phone=*******
Name=******
[Network]
Gateway=192.168.1.100
Netmask=255.255.255.0
IPAddress=192.168.1.104
DHCP=0
[sense]
muteaction=0
mute=-1
[power]
off_timeout=5000
[display]
squash_visuals=1
play_count=1
visual_names=1
caching=0
[kenwood]
disabled=0
[menu]
quit=1
sort_playlist=1
[shuffle]
deduplicate=0
[hush]
hushpercent=80
[volumecap]
enabled=0
[ramp]
disabled=0
[controls]
stalk_side=none
[tuner]
region=europe
[aux]
source=
title=
artist=
[startup]
ReserveCache=0
[hijack]
buttonled_dim=5
buttonled_off=5
disable_bassboost_FM=1
;@AC ;@EXEC /drive0/var/ttsclock
;@AC ;@EXEC /drive0/var/emptris
;@AC ;@EXEC /drive0/var/empacman
[ir_translate]
One.L=Clock
Four.L=HijackMenu


And now looks like this:

[synchronise]
seq_num=271
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
1=InfoTex OTT
count=1
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
15=Flancedoor
14=InfoTex Twist
13=InfoTex OTT
12=LogDiff 128
11=SpectroLog 128
10=Spectroflip 128
9=Spectrometer 128
8=Anna Vu
7=Oscilloscope LR
6=Oscilloscope
5=Sound Samosa
4=Rorschach
3=SoundFlag
2=Shapescape
1=Scope
count=15
[VisualFavourites_FM]
1=InfoTex OTT
count=1
[Options]
Name=Digit
[User Info]
Email=********
Phone=*********
Name=*******
[Network]
Gateway=192.168.1.100
Netmask=255.255.255.0
IPAddress=192.168.1.104
DHCP=0
[sense]
muteaction=0
mute=-1
[power]
off_timeout=5000
[display]
squash_visuals=1
play_count=1
visual_names=1
caching=0
[kenwood]
disabled=0
[menu]
quit=1
sort_playlist=1
[shuffle]
deduplicate=0
[hush]
hushpercent=80
[volumecap]
enabled=0
[ramp]
disabled=0
[controls]
stalk_side=none
[tuner]
region=europe
[aux]
source=
title=
artist=
[startup]
ReserveCache=0
[hijack]
buttonled_dim=5
buttonled_off=5
disable_bassboost_FM=1
[ir_translate]
One.L=Clock
Four.L=HijackMenu

I'll try the FSCK again now.

OK, I think I've been a grade-A cock.

I remember whilst I had A11 installed I thought that my reserve cache settings might me causing visual stuttering on track changes, so I reduced it to zero (see above). Of course this has had a knock-on effect to the memory available for the player. I didn't re-do the FSCK, I just tried uploading some choons and all seems well.

I'll re-edit the config.ini to inlclude the lines I had before, but I'll set a reserve cache again too.

All should be tickety-boo after that.

I extend my heart-felt gratitude, as always, for the excellent help I receive on this board.

Just out of interest, why do I keep getting the error message about 'unmount'? Any clues? Obviously the file doesn't exist on my player, just wondering why.

Heh. You typed it correctly when asking the question about why the command didn't work (it was the first thing I looked for, I even quoted it back in one of my messages), you just didn't type it correctly when actually executing the commands. I missed that bit.

(And looking even closer, I see that you told us the error message said unmount. I missed that bit, too. I only looked closely at the bit where you initially said what commands you had typed.)

Well, I've updated the FAQ entry anyway, so hopefully folks in the future won't make the same mistake. You aren't the only person to have done that.

I always thought truncated Unix command names was silly, right upto the point that I first had to admin a machine on the other side of the Atlantic via a 9600 modem link

And you haven't tried it on a 110 baud teletype...

Or even RFC 1149.