Ahhh.. good eye. I see the fsck error message in there now, I missed it as I was overwhelmed with all the messages at the end of the boot log.. I knew those were not normal.

I am trying the fix now.. its scary because it is definitely doing something and I am not familiar with a lot of this..

Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# umount /dev/hda4
empeg:/empeg/bin# umount /dev/hdc4
empeg:/empeg/bin# swapon /swapfile
Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -1)
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
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/
hda5 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda5: 1550/4096 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 9719/16384 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /dev/hda4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
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.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Deleted inode 2661 has zero dtime. Fix? yes
Deleted inode 2664 has zero dtime. Fix? yes
Deleted inode 2665 has zero dtime. Fix? yes

a bunch more of the same.. let me skip ahead some..

Deleted inode 2867 has zero dtime. Fix? yes
Deleted inode 2868 has zero dtime. Fix? yes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure

Entry '5da1' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2649. Clear? yes
Entry '5db0' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2650. Clear? yes
Entry '5db1' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2651. Clear? yes

again, a bunch more of these so let me skip ahead..

Entry '6010' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2726. Clear? yes
Entry '6011' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2727. Clear? yes
Entry '76f0' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2728. Clear? yes
Entry '76f1' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2729. Clear? yes
Entry '7700' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2730. Clear? yes
Entry '7701' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2731. Clear? yes
Entry '6040' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2732. Clear? yes
Entry '6041' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2733. Clear? yes
Entry '5e40' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2734. Clear? yes
Entry '5e41' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2735. Clear? yes
Entry '6020' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2736. Clear? yes
Entry '6021' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2737. Clear? yes
Entry '6070' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2738. Clear? yes
Entry '6071' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2739. Clear? yes
Entry '6080' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2740. Clear? yes
Entry '6081' in /fids (65) has deleted/unused inode 2741. Clear? yes

Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

Free inodes count wrong for group #41 (16, counted=40).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #42 (0, counted=56).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #43 (0, counted=8).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #44 (2, counted=12).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (86951, counted=87048).
Fix? yes

(a bunch of numbers scrolled by at this stage.. too many to post.. and then it kept going)

/dev/hda4: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/hda4: 4408/91456 files (22.1% non-contiguous), 7593171/11706369 blocks

The next command ( fsck -fay /dev/hdc4 ) produced this..
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
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.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hdc4: 3493/228288 files (33.5% non-contiguous), 7161358/29219400 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin#

Notice it had no errors. I am guessing all the errors were with my first drive.. but thats the important one.

At this point I unplugged the unit and then rebooted but it still does the same thing. It sticks at the Rebuilding Music Databases.. message.

Or so I thought.. after about 60 more seconds it finished its boot and I can now see it with the emplode software. Emplode is rebuilding the databases.. I guess its finishing the sync it started when it bombed?

It looks like its OK now..