Hi,

I've installed the "Viewer" onto my empeg (through the Bitt Faulk's empeg-preinit, etc.) and everything seemed to have worked well... until I tried to boot waiting for the "Viewer" entry to appear on the Hijack menu list... but it wasn't there :-(
I checked the boot on the hyperterminal and found out that something did not work well... Sigh!

Here's my booting strap:

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-v235 (root@tbird.localnet) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Mar 8 14:49:23 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 30102695)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14968k/16M available (1008k 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 d0005a00).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB 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:d7:26:0a:87
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 inithijack: removed menu entry: "Home/Work Location"

khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.
Loading dancefile: "/empeg/lib/visuals/breakdance.raw"
Loading dancefile: "/empeg/lib/visuals/stonkdance.raw"
Loading dancefile: "/empeg/lib/visuals/princedance.raw"
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Feb 7 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
! mp3_decoder.cpp :1049:Failed to find valid sync after seeking to offset 6015695, error=0xc0044000

My empeg seems to hang at this stage... Anyone?

Thank you,

Alberto

As a follow-up to my post...

I tried to re-install everything from scratch, except for the mp3 files... and still get the very same error code... (mp3_decoder.cpp ... error=0xc0044000) at the end of the bootstrap, where I guess the player booting gets stack...
The music comes out of the player anyway... but no trace ov Viewer on the Hijack menu list... Sigh! :-(

Has anyone ever encountered my same problem?

Thanks,

Alberto

Alberto, I got the same error, but everything's fine. The player works perfectly, and even the shell prompt works.

Oh, and I have NOT installed the viewer... I think it's an error given because I have disabled the fscheck (or what it's name) with hijack...

I'm pretty sure that the error you're seeing is not a cause for concern. We all see it on occasion. I believe that it has to do with starting an mp3 from the middle.

I feel very confident in saying that it's not a problem with my preinit (I need to update it to do some other stuff), as if it were failing, your empeg wouldn't get very far into the boot at all (I'd stop right after it said ``init'').

That only leaves the Viewer app that differs. See if you can FTP to your empeg and remove the appropriate file (there's probably only one) inside /etc/preinit.d/ and then reboot.

Hello!

Thank you all for your answers...
Doing a fast research in the BBS history, I noticed that the same error has popped up quite often...
And, as said, the player works great anyway...
My only concern was about not being able of taking advantage of the Viewer utility, which I would be very fond of...
I wonder if (and what) I have done wrong for not being able to properly install it...

One question: how do I recognize that the bash file is executed in the bootstrap lines?
At the moment, as you presumed, I only have one (viewerinit), but no trace of viewer bein executed... thus its absence in the Hijack menu... :-(

Thanks again,

Alberto

The shell script ``should'' (but likely doesn't) print out some status messages. That is, there ought to be a couple of echo statements in there.

For that matter, empeg-preinit ought to state that it's running, as well, but it doesn't. I'll see if I can fix that in the near future.

Thank you

Alberto