When I start emplode and choose the player it hangs on the "rebuilding database" item with an error message of
Download failed while rebuilding database. An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host (error 0x80072746)
Meanwhile the player has "Building music databases..." showing on the screen, but just hangs there.

I haven't found any troubleshooting advice for this in the faq. Anyone experienced this problem...or is it a bug to be filed (after seeing what's going on by using the console I guess).

Thanks

This looks like the same error that was discussed in a thread titled "Emplode 2.0B3 sync error 0x80072746".
I didn't see a fix for getting the player back up and running though
This is the beta11 software btw.

Thanks for any suggestions

Should I delete the tags.cpp file?
And if so could someone point me at the correct place on this bb to find out how to do so?
Just got this player fairly recently.
Thank you!!
-J
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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 kern
el.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50-hijack-v225 (root@tbird.localnet) (gcc ve
rsion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sat Mar 2 09:22:29 EST
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 40103876)
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
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 d0004480).
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: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
hdb: FUJITSU MHL2300AT, 28615MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
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
4
Partition check:
hda: 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 initempeg 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
hijack: removed menu entry: "Home/Work Location"

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 9802
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 9804
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
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
//****************************************
// The above portion took longer than it normall had in the past
// The following portion is when I attempted to start emplode
// and synchronize.
//****************************************
Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -1)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda4 is mounted.
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hdc4 is mounted.
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 9802
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 9804
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
! playerdb.cpp : 182:Failed to build dynamic database (status=0xc004401a).
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Abnormal player termination
Player received signal 11
Starting player

player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 9802
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 9804
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
hdb: lost interrupt
//**********************************
// And it just hangs here indefinitely here
//**********************************

hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0
hdb: lost interrupt

You have hardware problems: most likely either a loose IDE cable or loose jumpers on the drives.

Peter

Really?
The player works just fine when I'm not trying to do emplode synch (well, it takes a bit longer to startup...but I figured it all might be a related to the tags.cpp problem).
This sounds very similar to the synch problems that people described elsewhere....but I didn't see a definite "here's how to fix it" in those posts.

-J

I checked to see if the cable/jumpers were loose. they appear to be fine. Or rather the cable appears to be fine...there's only a jumper on one HD as far as I can see.

Anyone else have ideas?

Thanks,
-J

There should only be a jumper on the slave drive, so that's correct.
Maybe you've got the "badly crimped HD cable problem" that so many of us had. Just mail David at carsupport@empeg.com or carsupport@sonicblue.com and explain the problem to him. He'll send you a replacement cable free of charge.

I had the exact same problem....unfortunately, the only way I found to fix it was to reformat the hard drive.....