When I sync it attempts to sync, quits, reboots the player. Does the same thing with jemplode and emplode. HELP. What's going on?

Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -6)
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.
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.
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Restart code received
Starting player

Have you done anything like changing your init?

I'm using the preinit with hijack. why??

Calvin

Because if something were wrong with the way the player app were being called from this nonstandard init, then it might manifest itself in the way you describe.

See if you can blast a fresh Beta13 onto the player (without changing the init) and see if it synchs then. After that, add the nonstandard init back into place to see if it breaks.

I also see the following text in the hyperterminal:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)
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 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg51-hijack-v286 (root@tbird.localnet) (gcc ve
rsion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sun Jul 28 13:09:50 EDT 2002
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101933)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15072k/16M available (928k code, 20k reserved, 360k 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'
Found custom animation at offset 0x9877c
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 d0004200).
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: IBM-DJSA-230, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DJSA-230, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-230, 28615MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
hdb: IBM-DJSA-230, 28615MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu)

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:22:07:8
d
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.
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
empeg-preinit starting...
empeg-preinit complete
empeg 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

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
opening display...
opening font file...
cannot open font file
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000

Calvin

I tried putting in hijack 291, and syncing. Nothing. From emplode:

Failed to open database connection error 0x80040015.

I don't see how init could have something to do with this? I backed out the preinit.d scripts. rebooted and tried sync. Nothing. I'm working progressively backward.

Calvin

Have you installed a fresh Beta13 .upgrade file as I suggested?

edit: Also reboot your PC...

I put in a fresh Beta 13.
Same thing! Argh!

Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -1)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No suc
h file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No suc
h file or directory while determining whether /dev/hdc4 is mounted.
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Restart code received
Starting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000

What's going on?

Calvin

Yes. I installed a fresh beta 13.

Calvin

Ok, I rebooted the PC. Still no luck. This is really, really bad isn't it?

Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -1)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No suc
h file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No suc
h file or directory while determining whether /dev/hdc4 is mounted.
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Restart code received
Starting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000

Calvin

Okay, NOW I'm stumped.

I've tried the following. fsck on /dev/hda4 and /dev/hdc4 show CLEAN. Then I tried the following:

empeg:/# cd /
empeg:/# fsck /drive0
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.
/dev/hda4: clean, 4806/228352 files, 2488799/7304850 blocks
empeg:/# fsck /drive1
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 /driv
e1 is mounted.
fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /drive1

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

empeg:/#

could this have anything to do with anything?

Calvin

I'm reasonably sure that if your player is a single-disk player, the "dev/hda4" error is normal and does not indicate a problem (since there is no dev/hda4).

Someone correct me if I'm wrong?

On my two-drive player I get the "Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19", which is also normal, I believe.

No, I take that back. Hda4 is the music partition according to the developer info. Uh oh...

Except... I have two disks.

There is nothing wrong with the player. No missing files. I can access drive0 and drive1 and look around freely. I can mount and unmount rw, ro. With hijack in I can ftp in and out. streaming is ok. Everything is ok, except sync from emplode.

!!!

Calvin

First, you don't want to fsck while they're mounted.

See if you can do a ``umount /dev/hda4''. Make sure the player application is stopped (that is, press `q' at the serial port) and make sure you're not cd'd into /drive0 anywhere. Then run ``fsck /dev/hda4''. If it claims that it's clean, try a ``fsck -f /dev/hda4''.

If any of those steps fail, don't go any further. Reboot and get back to us.

Then let us know what happens.

ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether [mount point or device] is mounted.

IIRC this error is normal, and due to fsck looking for which filesystems that are mounted in /etc/mtab, but the empeg doesn't have an /etc/mtab file...

/Michael

Can you do an ls -l / so we can see if you've lost mount points?

I don't believe I have. If I can go into drive0 and drive1 and observe all the files and nothing is wrong with them, then that wouldn't be the case right? I did an ls anyway here are the results:


empeg:/empeg/bin# ls -la /
total 31
drwxr-xr-x 15 502 220 1024 Jul 24 17:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 502 220 1024 Jul 24 17:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Jul 24 17:18 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Jul 4 2000 dev
drwxr-xr-x 5 0 0 4096 Mar 14 2001 drive0
drwxr-xr-x 6 0 0 4096 Nov 2 2001 drive1
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 1024 Jul 24 17:22 empeg
drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 1024 Sep 15 1999 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Feb 9 2000 lib
drwx------ 2 0 0 12288 Jul 24 17:22 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Jun 2 1999 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 28 0 0 0 Aug 17 00:42 proc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 3 Jul 24 17:22 sbin -> bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 10 Jul 24 17:22 swapfile -> ./dev/hda6
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 1024 Apr 13 1999 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 1024 Feb 6 2000 usr
drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 1024 Aug 28 1999 var
empeg:/empeg/bin#

Calvin

empeg:/empeg/bin# cd /
empeg:/# umount /drive0
empeg:/# umount /drive1
empeg:/# ls drive0
empeg:/# ls drive1
empeg:/# fsck drive0
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
empeg:/# mount
/dev/root on / type ext2 (ro)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
empeg:/# fsck /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.
/dev/hda4: clean, 4806/228352 files, 2488799/7304850 blocks
empeg:/# fsck /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.
/dev/hdc4: clean, 23839/228352 files, 2507951/7304850 blocks
empeg:/#

I rebooted, then tried to sync again, and it does not sync. It just reboots instantly when a sync is attempted. (!?)

Calvin

Right. It claimed both filesystems were clean. So go back, do it again, and add a `-f' option to fsck to force it to actually check the filesystems. That is, ``fsck -f /dev/hda4'', etc. Make sure you remember to umount them first again.

Note that I have no idea if this is actually where your problem lies or not.

I am not able to sync tunes or playlists over. I am able to sync the config.ini file over. Strange right? If I attempt to sync over a tune or a playlist, and it fails in the following manner.



Calvin

Ah, it's not even trying to synch. It's not getting that far. It wants to do a disk check, and the disk check is failing.

It's actually now a different error than before. So it's failing at a different place.

The following is a more detailed manual fsck, as per the FAQ, but alas, with the same results. I don't really see an error, except for the "no such file or directory" thing, but I'm told that is normal? So if that's the case, there is theoretically nothing wrong but it will not sync. :-( The good news is I can still *listen* to music, I can still operate the hijack web server, the hijack ftp server, etc etc. Nothing else seems out of the ordinary.

empeg:/empeg/bin# cd /
empeg:/# ro
empeg:/# umount /dev/hda4
empeg:/# umount /dev/hdc4
empeg:/# swapon /swapfile
Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -1)
empeg:/# 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: 1527/4096 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 9701/16384 blocks
empeg:/# 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: 4806/228352 files (3.5% non-contiguous), 2488799/7304850 blocks
empeg:/# 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: 23845/228352 files (0.7% non-contiguous), 2507959/7304850 blocks
empeg:/# swapoff /swapfile
empeg:/# sync


Calvin

Is there anything else he can try short of reformatting? Maybe a fresh install of emplode on a different computer?

Stu

Does anyone know precisely what's happening during ``Checking Media''? I would think that it would be a cursory fsck, but, given that it's working properly from the command line, that wouldn't seem to be the case.

Do you have any third party software running on the empeg? If so, try disabling it all and then try to sync again.

Perhaps not reformatting. Perhaps a fresh load of a standard upgrade would be enough. It would wipe the root partition, but leave the music intact. Question: are you syncing over ethernet, USB or (heaven forefend) serial?

yeah, i was just about to say. i've encountered this problem when i ran a userland app that was on my music drive. if you kill -hup all the 3rd party, you should be able to sync.

Why SIGHUP? While, by default, it will kill a process, it's often overridden to do something else, usually restart. SIGTERM (15) would be a much more obvious choice to kill a process.