my roomates MK2a won't get past building database when start it up. it has the beta 2.11 developer player software installed and hijack (not sure what version).

I can't resync or do the other steps described in the faq to force it to rebuild the database because it won't finish booting.

can anyone suggest something to try ?

thanks

If it won't finish booting, try Ctrl+C before the player app starts.

If that works, let me know and I'll add it to the FAQ.

hitting Ctrl+C works to get the command prompt but when I do the line "rm /empeg/var/database" I get no such file or directory.

Hmm. Hope it's not a hosed hard disk.

Anyone?

do you think it might be the hard drive cable being bad? (I just got the new one from Empeg.)

--the roommate

Does the database file exist? I mean , if you go to /empeg/var and ls, what do you see?

Hook up the serial to the computer, and post the boot log.

Also, try re-updaing the 2b11 software to get rid of hijack.

the only file in that directory is config.ini

ewwwwkay. Then we're gonna need a bootlog to see what's going on. And even then it's iffy.

I tried reinstalling beta 2.11 that didn't make a difference

here's the log

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 kerne
l.

Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg50 (mac@aphex.internal.empeg.com) (gcc versi
on 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #7 Fri Feb 8 18:45:38 GMT 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 40104261)

Command line: mem=16m

Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS

Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k 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 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 d0004700).

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:a
5

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.

EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)

Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...hange_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

Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6

Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)

Remounting first music partition read-only

Remounting second music partition read-only

No secondary hard disk

Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds ToStarting play
er

player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta11 2002/02/08.

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

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5644

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5646

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5648

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5650

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5652

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5645

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5654

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5647

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5656

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5649

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5658

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5651

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5660

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5653

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5662

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5655

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5657

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5659

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5661

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5663

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for ino
de 5638

! tunedb_disk.cpp :1224:Datplayer(7): memory violation at pc=0x3ef1bf84, lr=0x
020b2488 (bad address=0x3ef1bf84, code 2)

abase sizpc : [<3ef1bf84>] lr : [<020b2488>]

sp : 5c62ccaf ip : bfffec5c fp : 71eb7ed0

e mismatch err10: ad2feb47 r9 : 1d99a69a r8 : d2296727

ror.

r7 : 95608397 r6 : 3230252a r5 : 28032b8a r4 : dbf7d6ef

r3 : bffffce8 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000001 r0 : c004101e

Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user

Control: C0F7917D Table: C0F7917D DAC: 00000015

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 71eb7ec4

memmap = C0F78000, pgd = c0f78000

*pgd = 00000000, *pmd = 00000000

Internal error: Oops: 2

CPU: 0

pc : [<c00dfba4>] lr : [<c0011948>]

sp : c0f7df58 ip : c0f7df0c fp : c0f7dfa4

r10: 00000002 r9 : c0fa80e0 r8 : 0000000c

r7 : 00000000 r6 : c0f7c000 r5 : c0fa32a0 r4 : 71eb7ed0

r3 : 60000013 r2 : c00fe1e4 r1 : c00dfb88 r0 : c00dfb94

Flags: nZCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 Segment user

Control: C0F7917D Table: C0F7917D DAC: 00000015

Process player (pid: 7, stackpage=c0f7d000)

Stack:

c0f7df40: c0011948 c00dfba4 60000013 ffffffff c0fa80f8 c0fa32
a0

c0f7df60: c0f7c000 c0f7dfb8 3ef1bf84 c0011948 020b2488 3ef1bf84 00000002 c00fc9
78

c0f7df80: 3ef1bf84 60000010 ffffffff c0f7dff4 1d99a69a ad2feb47 c0f7dfb4 c0f7df
a8

c0f7dfa0: c0011fd8 c00116f8 00000000 c0f7dfb8 c0009fd4 c0011fcc c004101e 000000
01

c0f7dfc0: 00000000 bffffce8 dbf7d6ef 28032b8a 3230252a 95608397 d2296727 1d99a6
9a

c0f7dfe0: ad2feb47 71eb7ed0 bfffec5c 5c62ccaf 020b2488 3ef1bf84 60000010 ffffff
ff

Backtrace:

Function entered at [<c00116ec>] from [<c0011fd8>]

r10 = AD2FEB47 r9 = 1D99A69A r8 = C0F7DFF4 r7 = FFFFFFFF

r6 = 60000010 r5 = 3EF1BF84 r4 = C00FC978

Function entered at [<c0011fc0>] from [<c0009fd4>]

Code: e1140007 1afffff7 (e814000f) e1a05000 e0436008

Restored terminal settings

RemountinEXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleare
d for inode 5664

g first music partition read-only

Remounting second music partition read-only

No secondary hard disk

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

OK, I don't see any hardware errors (i.e. your cable and disk are probably fine), but this:

EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,4)): ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 5644

means you should check your partition. This is described in the FAQ:

http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index& myfaq=yes&id_cat=8&categories= Known+problems+and+troubleshooting+questions#162

Peter

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when I perform "umount /dev/hdc4 " I get no such file or directory exists.

when I perform "umount /dev/hdc4 " I get no such file or directory exists.

As the prolific Mr Fabris puts it: "If you have only one hard disk, you may omit the lines that include /dev/hdc4."

That's you : you only have a one-drive Empeg and so don't need to check your second drive.

Peter

Does he only have one disk? 32GB? Possibly a 20 and a 12?

Edit: Nevermind, it's his roomates.

It only has one 10gb drive. I had it working briefly. I reinstalled the original software, then deleted some tracks (for more space) then reinstalled the BETA. it worked for a little while until I synchronized it again....then it goes back to doing the same thing. I tried it again to no avail.

This behavior all sounds very strange, as if there's something else going wrong. Perhaps you should officially contact support.

I did....I haven't heard from them yet.....Any other ideas? It wouldn't be from bad MP3 files, would it?

Greetings!

Are you running hijack? If so, swap to developer and retry the fsck steps.

Tony - a good addition to the FAQ. When troubleshooting disk problems, have the user load and try the fsck with the empeg kernel. There have been a few isolated incidents (like mine) where having hijack loaded may cause panics like this, and having a clean load may be useful for troubleshooting.

My roommate took the Hijack off......

sorry I missed that part.

ok....the hard drive cable has been replaced and the hard drive has been reformatted. Then, we put the Beta back on and........it still does it! I think it is possessed! Any suggestions?

i just found out that the disk builder program didn't erase the hard drive. Is there another way of clearing out the hard drive?

Greetings!

Actually, if you have a terminal session open when booting with the disk builder, it will give you an option to force the format / rebuild.