I was playing the unit and all of a sudden it locked up. The display freezes for a while, no buttons have any effect. After a while the player restarts and then freezes again as soon as it's running. The cycle continues forever.

Power off causes the player to reboot and start the cycle all over again.

I re-uploaded 1.03 and ended up with the same problem after the successful completion of the upload.

Serial port reports the following:


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 v1.03
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux................................... done, booting the kernel.

Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg43 (mac@aphex.internal.empeg.com) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #214 Sat Jun 23 16:38:57 BST 2001

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 40104221)

Command line: mem=16m temp=45

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15064k/16M available (960k code, 20k reserved, 332k data, 8k 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 206f6972 'rio '

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 d0004980).

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 MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive

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

hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, 9590MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63

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:d7:28:10:7d

Partition check:

hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4

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: 8k init empeg-car 1.03.
3b366bc5 DHCP Our mac is 00:02:d7:28:10:7d
3b366bc5 DHCP Our address is 255.255.255.255
3b366bc5 DHCP Broadcast address is 255.255.255.255
3b366bc5 DHCP Current IP address is 255.255.255.255
3b366bc5 DHCP Sending DHCP discover
3b366bc6 DHCP Sending DHCP discover
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
empeg-car 1.03.
3b366bdf DHCP Our mac is 00:02:d7:28:10:7d
3b366bdf DHCP Our address is 255.255.255.255
3b366bdf DHCP Broadcast address is 255.255.255.255
3b366bdf DHCP Current IP address is 255.255.255.255
3b366bdf DHCP Sending DHCP discover
3b366be1 DHCP Sending DHCP discover
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
empeg-car 1.03.
3b366bfa DHCP Our mac is 00:02:d7:28:10:7d
3b366bfa DHCP Our address is 255.255.255.255
3b366bfa DHCP Broadcast address is 255.255.255.255
3b366bfa DHCP Current IP address is 255.255.255.255
3b366bfa DHCP Sending DHCP discover
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
empeg-car 1.03.
3b366c10 DHCP Our mac is 00:02:d7:28:10:7d
3b366c10 DHCP Our address is 255.255.255.255
3b366c10 DHCP Broadcast address is 255.255.255.255
3b366c10 DHCP Current IP address is 255.255.255.255
3b366c10 DHCP Sending DHCP discover
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
empeg-car 1.03.
3b366c29 DHCP Our mac is 00:02:d7:28:10:7d
3b366c29 DHCP Our address is 255.255.255.255
3b366c29 DHCP Broadcast address is 255.255.255.255
3b366c29 DHCP Current IP address is 255.255.255.255
3b366c29 DHCP Sending DHCP discover

And it repeats forever. (there is a DHCP server on the network by the way). I've emailed support but it's the weekend. I don't want to do without her that long.

Any thoughts from the boards wisdom?

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Queue 351, Now Mk II #60000022 18gb, Blue

Install the developer image, then follow the recovery procedures documented in this thread.

This may need to become a FAQ item, as it seems to be happening more and more...

it sholdn't matter after monday :-)

32Gig MK2 In 2001 VW Golf TDI

Mine was doing somthing similar and it was a bad spot in the mp3.
I got by it pressing the fast forward key repeatadly just as it was getting ready to start playing again.

That did it for me, I was able to get past the bad spot, skip to a different song & make a note of it so I could remove & fix it later.

Steve

Mark I / #102 / 48g / Smoke / Custom Fascia
Best PC/Audio Investment Ever Made

That did it! Thanks Drakino!

I just wish I knew what song was playing so I could forward it to the folks at empeg to dissect.

=-C

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Queue 351, Now Mk II #60000022 18gb, Blue