I use version 1.02 or 1.03, I can't remember, but I find that the emplode software will freeze upon Synch if I take too long to move files over, make changes OR try to move too many files/make too many changes. Is this a known thing? It is really frustrating when i am thinking about where to put things and move some songs around, make tons of changes, and then when I synch, I get the initializing player screen. I have let the player initialize all night and still no dice, so I know it is frozen. I see in Win2k task manager that the program isn't responding either. Any fix for this?

As far as we knew, Emplode has been pretty stable in the most recent incarnations. So if you can reproduce a bug, it's worth getting details on it for reporting.

First: Make sure you're running the latest version (1.03 as of this writing) of both Emplode and the player software.

Next, before you sit down to do a big operation on Emplode, activate the logging feature.

Finally, if Emplode crashes, zip up that log file and send it to support.

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Tony Fabris

sounds good. I will do just that!

Thanks!

I have done everything stated. I upgraded to the very latest versions of everything and loaded the developer image. I got the log files and after letting the Empeg sit for about 10 minutes (connected to the computer and emplode open) and remembered I wanted to turn on the HD indicator. I did that, then hit synch, and the emplode froze. I looked at the log, and it states that there is no player connected to the system...along with other stuff I don't really understand. But the main error is somehting to the effect of: "hmmm...seems as though the player is not connected" shutting down.

I will send the log files if requested. Let me know.

Thank you,

Jason

Any word on when version 2.0 is coming out? Everyone on the BBS seems to think that this will fix other problems i am having as well (caching songs and skipping without delay). I can't find any info anyplace about it.

Have you actually contacted the empeg support team directly about this ?

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Unit serial number 47 (was 330 in the queue)...

FWIW, this appears to have just happened w/my 2.0b7 install. I'm synching about 2GB worth of MP3s (off a Jaz drive). I've done this multiple times already with 2.0b7 without incident so I'm not sure what's up. I didn't realize there was a logging feature - whoops. I'm not sure if I should reboot the player or not at this point (but then is there any choice) ... there probably isn't any way to revert so I will most likely remove the items I added and start over.

Auuuugh! Mistake, I suppose. I rebooted, it came up fine, but when I went to connect via emplode, the display is now showing "synchronising" again only I'm not synchronising.

Ugh. This can't be good (see bolded lines).

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-empeg50-hijack (root@tbird.localnet) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sun Jan 6 19:37:40 EST 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 30103046)

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15000k/16M available (976k code, 20k reserved, 384k 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 d0004d80).

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...

hdb: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive

hdb: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive

hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive

hdb: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive

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

hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63

hdb: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63

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:d7:26:0b:e6

Partition check:

 hda:waiting for connections

 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 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

  player.cpp        : 550:empeg-car 2.00-beta7 (internal) 2001/12/22.

! tags.cpp          :  61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).

[ ... ]

Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1335 Dec 22 2001

Vcb: 0x408cd000

! mp3_decoder.cpp   :1052:Failed to seek to offset 1118557, error=0xc0044000

Nope. All of these messages appear harmless. The reiserfs warning is fine -- it's not reiserfs, so it won't mount.

The 0xC....2 error is ENOENT -- you don't have a tags file. It should be rebuilt when the player starts.

The failed to seek to offset is also fairly common...

This is to be expected. The database wasn't rebuilt at the end of the last sync. Emplode has to trigger a rebuild before it can download it. This results in the "synchronising" screen appearing.

Got it. Makes sense now. I wound up needing to fsck the drives (with the swap on and all that). After that, worked like a charm.