I have a problem. I selected a bookmark (bookmark 3) that I had not previously set to anything since installing 2.0beta.

The player app crashed and restarted. It now starts up with an empty playlist, but then reboot repeatedly. I tried nuking /dev/hda3 to try and clear out the current running order, but that hasn't helped.

Here is what i get on the serial port when it boots:

empeg-car v0.04 19990121 (altman@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-empeg49 (mac@aphex.internal.empeg.com) (gcc versi
on 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #125 Wed Oct 17 16:01:18 BST 2001
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 9
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 4, serial number 00047)
Command line: mem=8m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 7324k/8M available (580k code, 20k reserved, 264k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 1024 (order 1, 8k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
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 '
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg remote control/panel button support initialised (Using FIQs).
empeg usb initialised, USBN9602 revision 1
empeg state support initialised 0089/8893 (save to d0004400).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power state driver initialised
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
empeg FM radio driver (Philips).
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg dual channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
hda: TOSHIBA MK1011GAV, ATA DISK drive
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
No drives found, retrying...
Registering drives...
ide0 at 0x040-0x047,0x078 on irq 7
hda: TOSHIBA MK1011GAV, 9590MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
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: 4k initI see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Mounting second music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 15
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disStarting player
Using non-standard cache size 31 (adjustment 12)
empeg-car 2.00-beta3 2001/10/17.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 1.860 Oct 17 2001
Vcb: 0x401fe000
E !! local_audio_component.cpp 543: Invalid tune information for FID 0x0. This i
s bad.
player(19): memory violation at pc=0x0208ead0, lr=0x020ad258 (bad address=0x0000
0000, code 2)
pc : [<0208ead0>] lr : [<020ad258>]
sp : be3ffb4c ip : be3ffb70 fp : be3ffb6c
r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000000
r7 : 00000000 r6 : 021c2da4 r5 : 00000000 r4 : 021c2e5c
r3 : ffffffff r2 : 00000000 r1 : 021c2db4 r0 : 00000000
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C83B517D Table: C83B517D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<0208eabc>] from [<020ad258>]
r8 = 021C2DB4 r7 = 00000000 r6 = 021C2DA4 r5 = 021A40C0
r4 = 021C2E5C
Function entered at [<020ad224>] from [<02033e58>]
r10 = 00000000 r9 = 00000001 r8 = 021C2D88 r7 = FFFFFFFF
r6 = 021A10D8 r5 = 021A40C0 r4 = 021C2E5C
Function entered at [<02033de4>] from [<0208a0ac>]
r8 = 00000000 r7 = 02192710 r6 = 0219C08C r5 = 00000001
r4 = 0219BFF8
Function entered at [<0208a054>] from [<0208acf0>]
r6 = BE3FFC04 r5 = 02192798 r4 = 0216E8F8
Function entered at [<0208acbc>] from [<02083fb8>]
r6 = FFFFFFFF r5 = 00000000 r4 = BE3FFC04
Function entered at [<02083ed4>] from [<02084b88>]
r10 = BE3FFD30 r8 = 02192710 r7 = 021927F0 r6 = 00000001
r5 = 021D8BF8 r4 = 021D8BF8
Function entered at [<0208409c>] from [<020861b0>]
r10 = 00000000 r9 = BE3FFD2C r8 = 02192710 r7 = 021927F0
r6 = 00000001 r5 = 021D8BF8 r4 = 021D8BF8
Function entered at [<02085ea4>] from [<020ca4fc>]
r10 = 020CA444 r9 = 02192710 r8 = 00002C0C r7 = 00000080
r6 = 0000000C r5 = 02192710 r4 = BE3FFD64
Function entered at [<020ca444>] from [<020d16f4>]
r5 = 02192728 r4 = BE3FFE40
Function entered at [<020d162c>] from [<0210c63c>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<0210ae30>] from [<020d1470>]
r8 = 0216DA8C r7 = 0216DA78 r6 = 020CA444 r5 = 00000003
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<020d13c0>] from [<0210c63c>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [] from [<00000000>]
Function entered at [] from []
Function entered at [<23a0fff3>] from [<23a0ffff>]
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 23a0fff7
memmap = C83B4000, pgd = c07b4000
*pgd = 00000000, *pmd = 00000000
Internal error: Oops: 2
CPU: 0
pc : [] lr : []
sp : c03cbf44 ip : c03cbf00 fp : c03cbf90
r10: 00000002 r9 : c016a0e0 r8 : 0000000c
r7 : 00000000 r6 : 23a0fff3 r5 : 23a0ffff r4 : e3a02000
r3 : 60000013 r2 : c009e1e4 r1 : 00000001 r0 : e3a01ff0
Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment user
Control: C83B517D Table: C83B517D DAC: 00000015
Process player (pid: 19, stackpage=c03cb000)
Stack:
c03cbf20: c0019630 c0089f0c 600000
13
c03cbf40: ffffffff c016a0f8 c01696a0 c03ca000 c03cbfb8 00000000 c0011924 020ad2
58
c03cbf60: 00000000 00000002 c03cbfb8 0000000f 00000000 00000000 00000002 000000
00
c03cbf80: 00000000 c03cbfb4 c03cbf94 c0011e5c c00116d4 c009c978 00000000 021c2d
a4
c03cbfa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 c03cbfb8 c000a008 c0011d84 00000000 021c2d
b4
c03cbfc0: 00000000 ffffffff 021c2e5c 00000000 021c2da4 00000000 00000000 000000
00
c03cbfe0: 00000000 be3ffb6c be3ffb70 be3ffb4c 020ad258 0208ead0 20000010 ffffff
ff
Backtrace:
Function entered at [] from []
r10 = 00000000 r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000002 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 00000000 r5 = 0000000F r4 = C03CBFB8
Function entered at [] from []
r8 = 00000000 r7 = 00000000 r6 = 021C2DA4 r5 = 00000000
r4 = C009C978
Code: ebfe3d44 e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Abnormal player termination
Player received signal 11
Starting player
Using non-standard cache size 31 (adjustment 12)
empeg-car 2.00-beta3 2001/10/17.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 1.860 Oct 17 2001
Vcb: 0x401fe000
E !! local_audio_component.cpp 543: Invalplayer(32): memory violation at pc=0x02
08ead0, lr=0x020ad258 (bad address=0x00000000, code 2)
id tune ipc : [<0208ead0>] lr : [<020ad258>]
sp : be3ffb4c ip : be3ffb70 fp : be3ffb6c
nformatior10: 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000000
n for FIDr7 : 00000000 r6 : 021c2da4 r5 : 00000000 r4 : 021c2e5c
0x0. This isr3 : ffffffff r2 : 00000000 r1 : 021c2db4 r0 : 00000000
bad.
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C83B517D Table: C83B517D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<0208eabc>] from [<020ad258>]
r8 = 021C2DB4 r7 = 00000000 r6 = 021C2DA4 r5 = 021A40C0
r4 = 021C2E5C
Function entered at [<020ad224>] from [<02033e58>]
r10 = 00000000 r9 = 00000001 r8 = 021C2D88 r7 = FFFFFFFF
r6 = 021A10D8 r5 = 021A40C0 r4 = 021C2E5C
Function entered at [<02033de4>] from [<0208a0ac>]
r8 = 00000000 r7 = 02192710 r6 = 0219C08C r5 = 00000001
r4 = 0219BFF8
Function entered at [<0208a054>] from [<0208acf0>]
r6 = BE3FFC04 r5 = 02192798 r4 = 0216E8F8
Function entered at [<0208acbc>] from [<02083fb8>]
r6 = FFFFFFFF r5 = 00000000 r4 = BE3FFC04
Function entered at [<02083ed4>] from [<02084b88>]
r10 = BE3FFD30 r8 = 02192710 r7 = 021927F0 r6 = 00000001
r5 = 021D8BF8 r4 = 021D8BF8
Function entered at [<0208409c>] from [<020861b0>]
r10 = 00000000 r9 = BE3FFD2C r8 = 02192710 r7 = 021927F0
r6 = 00000001 r5 = 021D8BF8 r4 = 021D8BF8
Function entered at [<02085ea4>] from [<020ca4fc>]
r10 = 020CA444 r9 = 02192710 r8 = 00002C0C r7 = 00000080
r6 = 0000000C r5 = 02192710 r4 = BE3FFD64
Function entered at [<020ca444>] from [<020d16f4>]
r5 = 02192728 r4 = BE3FFE40
Function entered at [<020d162c>] from [<0210c63c>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<0210ae30>] from [<020d1470>]
r8 = 0216DA8C r7 = 0216DA78 r6 = 020CA444 r5 = 00000003
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<020d13c0>] from [<0210c63c>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<02171ec8>] from [<020d4e94>]
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk

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

I tried deleting the database and playlists files to see if that would help, but it didn't. My player is still stuck in a reboot loop...

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

Do you have notify or timecodes enabled in config.ini? They don't seem to go well with empty playlist, with the same symptoms. If so, try to kill the player with Ctrl-C from the serial port. If you are fast enough, you will manage to drop to the shell. If not, you will have to downgrade to 1.03, edit config.ini, then reaply 2.0b3.

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green

I did have timecodes enabled, I removed them but that didn't help. I reapplied 2.0beta3, but that didn't help. I am now going to try downgrading to 1.03 and upgrading again.

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

I downgraded to 1.03 and selected a playlist so I no longer had an empty playlist. I then upgraded to 2.0beta3 again and the problem was resolved.

It appears that my player dislikes empty playlists, even when notify and timecodes are not enabled...

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

player dislikes empty playlists, even when notify and timecodes are not enabled

We're on the case.

Peter

We're on the case

(glug glug glug) One case later...

FITNR. Sadly there's no workaround, except the one you found of making sure the player never starts with an empty playlist.

Peter

I have "set" all my bookmarks to make sure that I don't get an empty playlist that way. I will be avoiding emplode until 2.0b4, just in case it leaves me in an empty playlist after a sync...

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