Just got this Sigbus error today.Had to pull the player from sled to reboot.I have occasionally gotten the Segfault error and had to pull player to reboot also.All the errors occurred when starting car and player freezes at the static logo screen.
Back in March I tried v3 alpha 11 for a few days but then went back to v2.0 final.I've always used Hijack,not sure what version I had on before I upgraded but probably one that didn't show the error.After I reverted back to 2.0 I put on hijack v448 which I guess is why I now see the errors.Although the player never locked up before I tried alpha11
Anyway,do I need to be concerned?I hate pulling the player that way as it pops the speakers.

You're right: It's only recent hijacks that show the error. The error isn't caused by hijack, it's just reporting them now.

I agree that locked up player software sucks because of that speaker-pop. Sometimes, even when the player software is locked up, you can still make the Hijack menu appear and select the "reboot machine" option to get the player to reboot nicely without needing to pull it and make the pop happen.

So. Back to the problem at hand: sigbus and segfault errors. These can be caused by:

- Running alpha software. Your best bet is to stick with 2.0 final or 2.0 beta 13.

- A specific bad MP3 file that screws up the decoder.

- Disk drive, IDE header, or disk cable trouble.

- RAM trouble.

- Other hardware trouble.

I'm guessing that the fact you're specifically getting a "sigbus" error indicates a certain kind of hardware trouble that others might be able to diagnose. But first give us a full boot log and a RAM test log. Instructions on how to do this are in the FAQ, search for Hyperterminal.

Ok thanks Tony,It will take me a couple days but i'll get the info posted.

Well I took the player out of the car(it worked fine on my 45 minute drive home today)and connected it to AC power and the serial cable.Now I get the No hardrive found error and can hear the hardrive starting/stopping starting/stopping over and over.
Anyway here are the logs

Ram log.

Yup, as you can see pretty clearly in the log, you've got one of the usual problems.

I guess it possible,but support has already replaced the drive,the cable,and repaired the header.I don't remember exactly but maybe it was 2 years ago.I'll try it back in the car later today and see what happens.

If it is okay in the car, you might want to check to see if your AC power supply / wall wart is dying. Maybe it is not supplying enough power to keep the drives spinning...

Another thought, if you have one of Mark's docks, is to try it in there - that uses the DC power channel.

Edit: Note - this assume that it was working in the car. It was in one of your posts, but not in the first post. You might also just want to check to see if the hard drive cable worked loose from the connector due to use or vibration.

It seems to work in the car fine.I've only had the sigbus/segfault errors about 5 times.
I have the original home power supply that came with the player.When I plugged it in last night it wouldn't boot but tonite it did. here is the new boot log and new ram test.


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 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v448 ([email protected]) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Thu Mar 16 19:43:10 EST 2006
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30103118) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k code, 20k reserved, 364k 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)
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 0x99380
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
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 d0004780).
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...
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xbbc4 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xbbc4 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xbbc4 -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xbbc4 -- FAILED
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x045a -- FAILED
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x045a -- FAILED
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x045a -- FAILED
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x045a -- FAILED
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x045a -- FAILED
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x045a -- FAILED
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHR2030AT, 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 ([email protected])

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:26:0c:2
e
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...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 Compìàlayer
redirected to /proc/ttyH
Timezone: Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21


And the new ram test.


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 FUJITSU MHR2030AT
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 00
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

So sometimes the hard drive works (second log), and sometimes not (first log).

Time to check out the cable and connections.

I did have the cable replaced and the header repaired by support.Don't remember exactly when but I guess the easiest is to try a new cable first or recrimp this one.
With a properly working player what should the boot log look like(the part after probing primary interface)

Great,thanks for your help