Well I do not know what has happened but one of my empegs is going dead each time I boot it up. I get the screen telling me the hijack version and the player version and the last thing I see on the screen is 'starting visuals...'. Then it is completely dead. I have attached the output below. I am no expert on Linux but it looks to me like it can not see the drives. Is this the case or is it something worse?

I am running v3alpha7 and hijack 383 on a MKII. Actually I believe it is one of Mark Lord's cast off machines.

SN#080000316

It has been running beautifully for close to a year since I got it.

Thanks for any advice...

empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 (hugo@empeg.com)
On DC power, quick boot

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v383 (root@ibbm) (gcc version 2.95
.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Apr 16 11:15:10 EDT 2004
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 80000316)
Command line: mem=12m noinitrd
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10960k/12M available (980k code, 20k reserved, 324k 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 '
Tuner: loopback=1, ID=-1
Forced AC/Home mode
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 d0005c00).
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-DARA-218000, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DARA-218000, 17301MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=35152/16/63
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:d7:10:01:3
c
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k init
Timezone: /usr/share/zoneinfo/Atlantic/South_Georgia
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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard diskStarting player
Timezone: /usr/share/zoneinfo/Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

/bin/sh: /bin/empegLink: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: exec: /bin/empegLink: cannot exehijack_exec("", "exec /bin/empegLink"),
rc=126 (ERROR)
cute: No such fil[hijack] ERROR: "khttpd_files=0"
e or dire[hijack] ERROR: "khttpd_commands=0"
ctory
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 564:empeg-car 3.00-alpha7 2004/02/13.
inet_bind(): disabling port 8300/tcp (Emplode)
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1490 Feb 13 2004
Vcb: 0x403ee000

It sees a drive:

hda: IBM-DARA-218000, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DARA-218000, 17301MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=35152/16/63

but not a second one. Are there two?

This unit only has one drive. I believe it is a 20GB IIRC.

I am also curious that it cannot find a file as part of an exec statement. If you can get to shell, you might want to verify your config.ini file.

I can't get to shell. It just dies. It is completely non-responsive and the drive seems to spin down. The only way to get it to do anything is to remove power and restart. Of course then it does the same thing all over again. It is a torturous, vicious cycle.

You need to try pressing lots of Q <enter> and ctrl-C commands to be certain that you can't drop to a shell...

How about this?

Thanks for the Control-C tip Tony. I was pressing Q. I did finally get it to a shell prompt. I then tried Paul's suggestion from the FAQ. That is when I got this error in jEmplode...

I have screen shot the dialog and included it as an attachment. The error text is pasted below...



Unable to open connection to device. caused by:

org.jempeg.protocol.ConnectionException: Failed to connect to the specified device. Please verify the device's IP address.

at org.jempeg.protocol.SocketConnection.open(SocketConnection.java:148)

at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegProtocolClient.open(EmpegProtocolClient.java:359)

at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegProtocolClient.open0(EmpegProtocolClient.java:1068)

at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegProtocolClient.readFID(EmpegProtocolClient.java:490)

at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegProtocolClient.readFIDToMemory(EmpegProtocolClient.java:421)

at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegProtocolClient.getPlayerType(EmpegProtocolClient.java:1082)

at org.jempeg.empeg.protocol.EmpegSynchronizeClient.<init>(EmpegSynchronizeClient.java:41)

at org.jempeg.empeg.manager.dialog.ConnectionSelectionDialog.showConnectionSelectionDialog(ConnectionSelectionDialog.java:157)

at org.jempeg.empeg.manager.Main$1.run(Main.java:88)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Greetings!

When you hit control c and ran the player, you need to exit out of the player gracefully and reboot, otherwise the network configuration would not be loaded. That looks like it might have been your problem with jemplode.

What's in your config.ini?

If you can't get to a shell, you ought to still be able to access the player's files via FTP or HTTP (assuming you haven't disabled those in config.ini!)

I think that did it. It now starts up and plays fine. The only problem I can think of now is that I do not know what the song was that caused the problem.

When it died, I was in the midst of a higer tier playlist that had a couple of thousand tracks in it.

BTW, I sent you an email. I recieved the tech support sphere yesterday. As the only adult present in the room, all I can say is...

COOL

Cool!