Hello. I have got a small, I hope, problem with my Rio player. It has just been sitting here for a while, never in my car yet, on my desk. I have been going through scanning and fixing all my MP3 to get rid of the errors some of then get on the Rio player so I have not been using it much lately. Tonight some friends can over and so I wanted to show then just how cool the Rio is. It was working fine, display was going though all the cool stuff and was playing just fine. I then wanted to really blow there minds so I jumped on Exploder to show then how cool the web interface was. It was working good but then it started to not work so well and finally stopped altogether. I reset the player, hub and computer and that seened to fix it for a few minute but then it looked the Rio up, well some of it anyways. OK, now all I get is the RIO screen and if I hold down the knob I can get the other stuff that is on there ( I have all the latest kernels and Emplode). The player will work if you restart it but only within the first few seconds. After that the only controls that work is holding down the knob to get into those option and then screen freezes. Strangely the player will still play and keep playing even after the controls stop working. After some investigation I did realize the screen will go into sleep mode and will come back to life with the touch of any buttom. I have tried to resinc the player using both the Com and Net. You can get it to sinc if you play with it long enough but it still does the same thing. Am I just totally overlooking something stupid here or what. Please help me fix my beloved Rio Player.

P.S.- sorry for the long post but I wanted to make sure I explained everything that is going on and what I have already tried.

Thanks in advance for you help

first, read this faq entry:

http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=7&faqent=82#82

then once you're hooked up to the terminal, post the boot up log here.

I can't think of anything off hand that would do that, so if there are any errors in the bootup it might help. Anyone else recognize these symptoms? Ram maybe?

The only thing that sounds vaugely familiar was someone who was having problems with their empeg just getting bogged down from some virus on the network (nimda?). Perhaps try it without the ethernet cable plugged in? I doubt that's it from your description though.

It also sounds like stuck jiffies, but those were fixed a while ago and were never regular for anyone.

Try reflashing a stock empeg image and see if that does anything perhaps?

Matthew

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
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-empeg51-hijack-v291 ([email protected]) (gcc ve
rsion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Jul 31 10:10:42 EDT 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 30102349)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15076k/16M available (928k code, 20k reserved, 356k 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 636f6972 'rioc'
Found custom animation at offset 0x9f750
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 d0005080).
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: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:09:2
d
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 init
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N13
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x720
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TJellyhead
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ ACrush
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N13
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x720
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TJellyhead
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ ACrush
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:48
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S1
! mp3_decoder.cpp :1049:Failed to find valid sync after seeking to offset 7659
52, error=0xc0044000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:49
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:50
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:51
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:52
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:53
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:54
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:55
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:56
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:57
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:58
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:00:59
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:01:00
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:01:01
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:01:02
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #720 0:01:03


I sure hope this mean something to you, LOL.

Did a ram test too:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...
0000 empeg-car (issue9) board test version 0.05 <[email protected]>
0100 ram test starting
0110 testing ic 1 (0-15mb, low word)
0120 testing ic 2 (0-15mb, high word)
01f0 ram test done
0200 ide detect
0210 command issued
0220 drive id IBM-DJSA-220
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 39
04f0 temperature ok
0500 usb detect
0510 usb rev 1012
05f0 usb ok
0600 ethernet detect
0610 ethernet rev 334b
06f0 ethernet ok
0700 cs4231 detect
0710 cs4231 rev a0
07f0 cs4231 ok
00f0 tests complete

I think the RAM looks OK

Greetings!

Okay. Hijack 291, so it shouldn't be jiffies. There were some notify fixes after that, so upgrading hijack might help. Also, I notice you have a custom boot logo. That shouldn't matter, but if it is too long, it might be causing trouble.

What interests me is that the file lost sync. It seems like you might have a bad mp3 file, and the player is trying to recover. I would not have thought that would lock up the controls, though.

How long has it been since a full sync and disk check on this player? Perhaps you should look for file system issues with a good fsck.

What interests me is that the file lost sync. It seems like you might have a bad mp3 file, and the player is trying to recover. I would not have thought that would lock up the controls, though.

The file didn't lose sync; that's the normal message everyone gets before playback starts if it restarts in the middle of a track. Notice there are no timecodes before the sync message, only information that the player knows about before it starts playing.

Unfortunately I've no idea what the real problem is. It's a good start to see whether it still happens with a completely stock 2.0beta13 install.

Peter

OK, I upgraded to v301 and it is still was same. I cleared any and all boot logos and antimation and that did not help. I then went back to the stock 2.0beta13 and it is still the same. Here is what I get:


empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
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-empeg51 (mac@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #17 Wed Jul 24 18:23:20 BST 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 30102349)
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 d0005b80).
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: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:09:2
d
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 init player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-be
ta13 2002/07/24.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N53
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0xa80
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TDoo Doo Brown
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ ALuke
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ GOther
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N53
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0xa80
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TDoo Doo Brown
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ ALuke
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ GOther
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:02
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S1
! mp3_decoder.cpp :1049:Failed to find valid sync after seeking to offset 1947
200, error=0xc0044000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:03
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:04
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:06
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:07
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:08
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:09
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:10
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:11
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:12
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:13
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:14
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:15
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #a80 0:02:16

then it stops responding.

Questions: Does it continue to play after the controls stop responding? Does the out hyperterm output continue showing status after the controls stop responding?

It will keep playing but hyperterm. stops responding after just a few seconds. If I go into Emplode it will find the com port and sync but not in JEmplode.

i would try this out, check out the How do I stop it from trying to play a bad track? FAQ

Notice in the info he posted, it was trying to play 2 different tracks...I don't think that's the issue...

If it is a corrupt file, I found that holding the right button while booting sometimes is enough, it selects the 'next' track before attempting to play the corrupt one. YMMV! Good luck.

-Zeke

Old Hand Post

In both of his boot logs, he was trying to play the same song. I think it would be worth a try to load up the empeg without a playlist. Hopefully its something as simple as a bad audio file.

Also might help to clear the database to see if that's it.

Does this problem still happen with the player unplugged from ethernet? As was mentioned earlier in the thread, the last time I remember hearing this was because a Nimda virus was hammering the player.

then it stops responding

Very odd. It stops responding after exactly thirteen seconds of playback, on two different songs. Does it stop responding if it's not playing?

Peter

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
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-empeg51 (mac@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #17 Wed Jul 24 18:23:20 BST 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 30102349)
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 d0005f80).
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: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:09:2
d
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 init player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-be
ta13 2002/07/24.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N12
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x690
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TBelieve
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ ACher
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #0 0:08:26
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S0
! mp3_decoder.cpp :1049:Failed to find valid sync after seeking to offset 8096
718, error=0xc0044000
s
No responce

OK, This player has been working fine for about 6 months. Some of my MP3s did get am error when being played by the Rio. Becuase of these errors I dumped everything, used MP3Trim to scan and fix all problems with the files. After testing a few none "errored" files on the Rio I found that this fixed the problems. I only reloaded a very small portion of the drive and then let that part play all the way though its list. What I am trying to say is I have spent a lot of time to make sure the files are good and that the Rio likes then too. As of a few weeks ago I know for 100% that the files were perfect. If they are bad now what can I do to fix then and mainly for did it happen.

As of a few weeks ago I know for 100% that the files were perfect. If they are bad now what can I do to fix then and mainly for did it happen.

If it's really been caused by bad files, then there are only the following three possibilities:

- The files were bad to begin with.

- The files were corrupted during the transfer to the player.

- The files became corrupted after they were already on the player.

First situation is an SEP, but you can find out by checking the original copy of these files if you left them on your hard disk after you sent them to the player.

Don't know how to tell the difference between the second and third situations. Also don't know what could have caused the second situation, I've actually never heard of it happening.

The third situation could be caused by disk trouble.

OK. The player will not stay "active" long enough to do much of anything. In hypertem. it will only respond for about 5-8 seconds, not long enough for me to clear the database.

HELP HELP HELP

It stops responding after 5-8 seconds, EVEN IF you quit out of the player application and you're sitting at the shell prompt?

Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
no shell!
Shell exit
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d

Dont I need some other software installed on the player. Software that someone told me to get rid of and go back to the original and can not load anymore.

Greetings!

When you loaded the software, did you load the developer version? The consumer version does not allow for shell.

Great. I loaded the consumer and I do not think I will be able to load the other. The player will not stay active long enough to even get in Emplode anymore. GRRRRRRR

Flashing doesn't require the player or emplode. Just don't plug it in until it tells you to and you should be fine.

Matthew

No, you should always be able to use the upgrade program - it will ask you to reboot and will catch the unit before it boots up.

Oh ya, sorry about that. Can someone link me to the right software to load. Just want to make sure I get it right this time. And thanks for everyones help. I dont want to loosa my little Rio, LOL.

Greetings!

Just follow the "Latest Software" link in the header, select "Beta Software" and click on the Rio Car (Empeg Mark 2) Developer Image". This, of course, assumes you have a Mark 2 or 2a...

Rio Car (Empeg Car Mark 2) Developer image. Load this onto your player to get the shell prompt. Don't Plug in your player to power untill the upgrader tells you to do so. Then use the FAQ i linked to before to clear the playlist from the player. Then let us know what happens.

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 ([email protected])
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-empeg51 (mac@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #16 Wed Jul 24 18:19:54 BST 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 30102349)
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 d0004d00).
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: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-220, 19077MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:09:2
d
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 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 To ComðStarting
player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
q! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).

Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N29
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x990
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TLet Me See You Pop It
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ AGet It Boyz
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N29
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x990
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TLet Me See You Pop It
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ AGet It Boyz
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #0 0:02:28
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S0
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:29
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:30
q
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:31
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:32
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:33
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Player exited normally: 0
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# rw
empeg:/empeg/bin# rwm
empeg:/empeg/bin# rm/empeg/var/database
bash: rm/empeg/var/database: No such file or directory
empeg:/empeg/bin# rom
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# exit
logout
Shell exit
Starting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N29
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x990
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TLet Me See You Pop It
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ AGet It Boyz
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N29
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x990
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TLet Me See You Pop It
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ AGet It Boyz
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:33
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S1
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:34
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:35
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:36
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:37
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:38
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:39
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:40
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:41
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:42
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:43
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:44
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:45
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:46
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:47
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #990 0:02:48

Again it stops responding. Is the line rm /empeg/var/database correct. That looks like it is running into a problem there. Also, it seens to be exepting comands fine in the shell. I let it sit for a while, in the shell, and then entered the same comands again and it responded fine. Hope this is a good thing.

It looks like you left out a space in the line:

"rm/empeg/var/database"

so it did not execute that command correctly. try the same procedure, but with:

"rm /empeg/var/database"

and then try your luck. is the music you have on the drives important? it might be worth trying rebuilding your disks completely. let's try a few more things first though.

John

oopps.......

Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Player exited normally: 0
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# rw
empeg:/empeg/bin# rwm
empeg:/empeg/bin# rw /empeg/var/database
empeg:/empeg/bin# rom
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# exit
logout
Shell exit
Starting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N32
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x4b0
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TLove Is Alive
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ A3rd Party
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N32
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x4b0
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TLove Is Alive
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ A3rd Party
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:43
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S1
! mp3_decoder.cpp :1049:Failed to find valid sync after seeking to offset 2601
410, error=0xc0044000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:44
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:45
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:46
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:47
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:48
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:49
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:50
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:51
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:52
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:53
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:54
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:55
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:56
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #4b0 0:02:57

Stopped responding again. I then rebooted the player and again after a few seconds it froze up. The music is the leased of my concerns at this piont. Like I said before there is actually very little on the player right now so if I have to loos it to get the player working again it is not a big deal. I have it all backed up, twice.

rw /empeg/var/database

Still not correct, should be...

rm /empeg/var/database

(note the "rm")

-Mike

In addition to removing the database (which it looks like you still need to get right), you also need to:

- Start the player without a tune so that it boots up to "end of playlist". (FAQ entry linked earlier in this thread.)

- Synch once with emplode. (As described in the FAQ entry about removing the database.)

After that, do *not* choose a playlist. Just let the player sit there at "end of playlist".

NOW does it stop responding after 8-10 seconds? Or does it work OK up until you start playing tunes?

My player sdhowed similar symptoms, It would work as usual for a short time and then the buttons would not work anymore, but the screen continued, and the ethernet connection also continued to work.

After a while, the buttosn stopped wortking alltogether (IR also stopped working together with the buttons)

Carsupport tought it might be the displayboard-pic, and a replaced display board fixed it.

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

Yup, exactly. The diagnostic steps we're trying to list, above, are intended to narrow down whether it's a software problem (such as corrupted MP3 files), or whether we should start looking at hardware problems such as the one you are describing.

OK, now that I have had a little sleep lets see if I can get it right this time:

Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Player exited normally: 0
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# rw
empeg:/empeg/bin# rwm
empeg:/empeg/bin# rm /empeg/var/database
rm: cannot remove `/empeg/var/database': No such file or directory
empeg:/empeg/bin# rom
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# exit
logout
Shell exit
Starting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.00-beta13 2002/07/24.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 24 2002
Vcb: 0x4086d000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N42
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x530
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TThis Is The Night
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ AAmber
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 116:@@ N42
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 117:@@ F0x530
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 118:@@ TThis Is The Night
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 119:@@ AAmber
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 120:@@ G
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #0 0:02:23
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 170:@@ S0
! mp3_decoder.cpp :1049:Failed to find valid sync after seeking to offset 2282
436, error=0xc0044000
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:24
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:25
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:26
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:28
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:29
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:30
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:31
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:32
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:33
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:34
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:35
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:36
serial_notify_thread.cpp: 180:@@ #530 0:02:37
stops responding again

Did I do it wrong again. I rechecked it with the FAQ and it looks right.

It's still trying to play a song, according to the serial output. You need to do this, as was mentioned earlier in the thread, to stop it from playing a song.

Then, you need to continue with the remainder of the instructions here so that the database can be rebuilt.

Once you've done that, do not play a song or a playlist. Boot the player and tell us whether or not it continues its previous behavior of locking up after it's been on a few seconds.

If it continues to lock up, even if it's not playing any songs, then I would consider it highly likely that it's a hardware problem.

OK, I went through the whole process. I restarted not in a play list and everything seened OK. I then synced using Emplode and that went great for a change. I then deleted everything off the player exept two song for test use and resynced. To my suprise that went smoothly and the player restarted, not in a play list. I started the songs playing to test things and everything was going good but just the RIO/ song name and title/time was on the screen so to really test things out I started messing with the visuals and it started doing the same thing again. To make sure it was something to do with the visuals or that it just happened to lock up while I was messing with them I went back into hyperterm. and set the player to restart out of a playlist. The player is now playing fine, with controls and "stock" visual just fine but as soon as I mess with the visual setting it freezes again. This is sounding like the display board as per other post but I am just guessing. You guys are the Empeg gurus, not me, LOL.

The player is now playing fine, with controls and "stock" visual just fine but as soon as I mess with the visual setting it freezes again.

Which visual are you selecting? Can you name a specific one that fails every time?

Peter

OK, it seens like all the individual visuals are working fine but here is the strange thing. If you select one visual it will work fine but if you select Auto Change, either On Track or Time Out, the visual will play till it needs to change to the next one the then goes to the RIO visual and stays there. I have tried just about very combo I can think os to make it work or not work and all end with the RIO visual on next change and it just stays there. When it freezes is when you select Random under the Select Mode section. Does this help you guys any.

Greetings!

Are you running any custom visuals? Did you upload or replace the empeg "tux" graphic?

I saw the following in his first posted bootlog further up this thread:

Found custom animation at offset 0x9f750
Scheduling custom logo

- Is that what you were referring to?

Not really. You can substitute out your own graphic for the tux. I am just wondering if it could be a corrupted image, and if that would cause this problem.

Can anyone else reproduce this problem?

No. everything should be back to "stock" for the most part

Where did everyone go. Still need to figure out what is going on with my poor Rio. I have not done anything to the Tux graphics so I do not think it is that. Any other ideas?????

The player is now playing fine, with controls and "stock" visual just fine but as soon as I mess with the visual setting it freezes again.

Hm. It wouldn't happen to be this or this would it?

OOOH! Nice! I forgot about those!!!

WOW, thanks Tony. I take back everything bad I ever said about you, HeeHee, just kidding. But you are "the man". I cleared the config ini. file and then did a sinc Emplode. I entered in my info and resinced and now it seens to be working A OK. Thanks again to you and everyone else for the help. The upside to this is now I know a lot more about the workings of the player which is cool. The down side is now I get to reload all the cool Kernals, hacks, boot logo, web interface and all my music. Fun Fun!!!!! At least now I have a working play. I am going to mess with it more here tonight and post back one more time just to make sure. Any ideas of how this happened?


Again to everyone-BIG THANKS FOR EVERYONES HELP!!!

Any ideas of how this happened?

Yes. If it's the bug I think it is, here's how it worked:

If you used Emplode 2.0 beta 11 and created a list of Favorite Visuals, there was a bug. Each time you synched more than once in the same Emplode session, Emplode would append instead of replace the list of favorite visuals. So if you made a change, hit Sync, then made another change, and hit Sync again, then it would instantly double the size of your favorite visuals list. There are some limitations to how the player can use config.ini, so once config.ini gets too big, things go wonky. And as you know, the way exponential numbers work, it doesn't take too many of these double-syncs to reach that point.

I didn't think to check this until you started talking about auto-switching visuals. Sorry we didn't think to check it earlier.

Please check to make sure you've updated your Emplode version (not the player... emplode) to the latest version, which has this bug fixed.