After a WinXP crash during a sync I now cannot get past the "Building music databases..." comment. I have loaded the 2.00 release dev image (and hijack kernel) but am unable to get to the prompt to try this fix. One other questions: When prompted to enter q, why is there "0 seconds to comply"?

Anyhow, here is the serial output on a boot. This output is repeatable.

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 kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v340 (root@ibbm) (gcc version 2.95
.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Jun 18 18:40:14 EDT 2003
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 40103994)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15016k/16M available (976k code, 20k reserved, 368k 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 636f6972 'rioc'
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
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 d0005e80).
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: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB 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:d7:28:0f:9
a
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...•Ô•j½Õ¹Ñ•‘�ɽ½Ñ�¡•áÑÉ�™¥±•ÍåÍÑ•µ¥�É•…‘½¹±å¹)5ÿchang
e_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initqempeg 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
qHijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Tuner RDS Control"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=519859964, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-943776834 sector=1039719920 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=782784500, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-1414916612 sector=1565568992 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=993534012, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-288487410 sector=1987068016 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=1698163772, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=2035153678 sector=-898639760 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=84608716, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=21152178 sector=169217424 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=432155148, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-428832126 sector=864310288 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=1947760272, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=1023810979 sector=-399446760 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=265262044, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=66315510 sector=530524080 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=1705136152, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-647457787 sector=-884695000 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=577827932, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=1218198806 sector=1155655856 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=106772240, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=1100434883 sector=213544472 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=999072724, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-1360844556 sector=1998145440 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=947018000, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-1910729149 sector=1894035992 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=519859964, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-943776834 sector=1039719920 size=4096 count=1
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=519859964, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-943776834 sector=1039719920 size=4096 count=1
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for bl
ock 4429881
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for bl
ock 4429881
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for bl
ock 4429881
...
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for bl
ock 4429881
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 1560657735, count = 1
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 3322813680, count = 1
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 184113030, count = 1
Remounting filesystem read-only
...
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 3163721723, count = 1
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 1076050864, count = 1
Remounting filesystem read-only
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=1725699624, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=431424905 sector=-843568056 size=4096 count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): trunc_indirect: Read failure, inode=132342, bl
ock=431424905
Remounting filesystem read-only
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=897831304, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=-312413087 sector=1795662600 size=4096 count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): trunc_indirect: Read failure, inode=132342, bl
ock=-312413087
...
Remounting filesystem read-only
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=1775376432, limit=29219400
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=980715019 sector=-744214440 size=4096 count=1
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): trunc_indirect: Read failure, inode=132342, bl
ock=980715019
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for bl
ock 4430918
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 132342
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for bl
ock 4420368
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for bl
ock 4420368
...
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for bl
ock 4420368
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for bl
ock 4420368
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 3351190462, count = 1
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 2880050684, count = 1
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 4006479886, count = 1
...
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 4294936511, count = 1
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazo
ne - block = 4294967283, count = 1
Remounting filesystem read-only
Kernel panic: EXT2-fs panic (device ide0(3,4)): load_block_bitmap: block_group >
= groups_count - block_group = 131071, groups_count = 223

*** End of output ***

Wow, I had a very similar problem just tonight, but I was able to get to a command prompt to fix it.

One answer: The pause at the beginning of boot is not for you to hit q, it's for programs who wish to upgrade the flash (like if you install Hijack).

Edit: Ah, forgot what you were talking about.. I have the same question!

One other questions: When prompted to enter q, why is there "0 seconds to comply"?

I think that's a joke. If the player is working properly, Q works at any time.

You need to press ^C (Control-C) to quit the player and get to a shell prompt. You might need to hit Control-C lots of times for the player to get the message, but, looking at that log, you should be able to get control at some point on or after the "player.cpp" line. Once you've done that, you need to manually run fsck on your music partitions (look for "e2fsck" in the FAQ).

Usually the player recovers from this sort of disaster at least well enough to connect Emplode and let it run fsck, but yours seems to be an especially bad one...

Peter

One other questions: When prompted to enter q, why is there "0 seconds to comply"?

I think that's a joke. If the player is working properly, Q works at any time.

If I remember the early betas, they used to actually pause there, waiting for Q before starting the player. They later added the Q command to the player app for ease of getting to the shell.

Thanks, I have an operational player again . The 45 min drive to work (1 way) was getting a little boring without any distractions.

Thanks,
Cory