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Before you ship it anywhere, see if you can install the developer release first. v2.01 please.

Then hit Control^C on the serial port after the player starts up.

(or if it is all behaving, then just leave well enough alone).

Ok, somewhat good news. I was able to install the dev. 2.01 release with no problems. However this is what I get when I activate the hyperterminal. I also ran the diagnosis or control+t. this just repeats itself until I disconnect.

Starting player96 count=16, li
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:04: rw=0, want=268439556, limit=2921940088 sector=536879104 size=4096
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=67109888 sector=536879104 size=4096 count=1ingssector=536879104 size=4096
Restored terminal settingsusic partition read-onlyin
Remounting first music partition read-only
Re
Remounting se
Remounting second music partition read-only
Remounting fi
No secondary hard disk
Abnormal player terminationard disktition read-only
Player received signal 6
Q
Qe
Abnor
Starting playernationion
attempt to access beyond end of deviceard disk
Player
03:04: rw=0, want=268439556, limit=29219400
Abnorm
No secondary hard diskecond music partition
Abnormal player termination
Player received signal 6 6
Starting playererrd disk
attempt to access beyond end of devicend end of deviceion
03:04: rw=0, want=268439556, limit=29219400w=0, want=268439556, limit=29219400arting p
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=67109888 sector=536879104 size=4096 count=1c
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=67109888 sector=536879104 s
Restored terminal settings9556, limit=29219400
Remounting first music partition read-only
attempt to access beyond end of device
No secondary hard dis
03:04: rw=0, want=268439556, limit=29219400
03:04: rw=0, want=26843955
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=67109888 sector=536879104 size=4096 count=1
Startin
dev 03:04 blksize=4096 blocknr=67109888 sector=5368
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
03:04: rw=0, want=268439556, limit=29219
Remounting second music partition read-only
Restored terminal settings

Here's the ram test results.

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-230
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 40
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

Not sure what this all means but I have a feeling its not good. Now when I apply power no more hi-jack anim. Just sits at the last image while it hums away. Anything else I can try? Maybe a cable came loose inside? I really appreciate you guys' help.

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Ok,. so somehing like this

empeg:/empeg/bin# rm /empeg/var/database* ----> rm= will remove files from said directory.
empeg:/empeg/bin# rm /empeg/var/playlists -----> rm= again removes files
empeg:/empeg/bin# rm /empeg/var/tags ------> rm= removes files
at the empeg:/empeg/bin# prompt then enter--> player -i
then enter ro at the same prompt
then exit at the same prompt.

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(4) If nothing above worked, then a full reinit of the hard drive is the next option. This means all music on the drive is lost and will have to be re-uploaded, and playlists re-created. You really don't want to do this, but at this point there's little else to try. This means installing the dreaded builder image. But before doing destroying the music collection, try and find a different notebook hard disk to use for this step. Remove the original drive, and install the new one, and then run the builder on *that* drive. Once it finishes, reinstall v2.01 software, and then reinstall Hijack.

(5) If the last step worked, then you'll need to repeat it on your original drive, and then reinstall all music and playlists. Ugh.

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Ok, I reloaded the dev. 2.01 final once again nothing new to report. Same non response.
I went into the bash prompt and type in as directed.

rw- EXT-2-fs warning: Checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended.

All three of the other directories (database, playlists, tags) came back as: cannot remove ' empeg/var/database* ' : No such file or directory .

I then tried player -i again and same story...Aborted.

rm -r /drive0/fids/*

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bad entry in directory. inode out of bounds

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On second thought, try running fsck (more or less the Linux equivalent of scandisk) before wiping out all your music. Maybe it can fix the filesystem.

Yes, do that. And do what Tony suggested, and use direct cut-and-paste for these things. MUCH less error-prone, especially for a demonstrably error-prone person.

If the fsck doesn't work out for you, then you can "fix it" rather quickly, losing all music, with something like this:

Again, hit control^C to get a command (shell) prompt first. Then do:

Code:

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cd /
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
umount /dev/hda4
mke2fs -m 0 -s 1 -i 131072 /dev/hda4
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/hda4
mount -n /dev/hda4 /drive0 -orw
player -i
mount -n /dev/hda4 /drive0 -oremount,ro

## wait for it to finish rebuilding databases, then hit control^C and continue:

swapoff -a
exit

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You have already demonstrated in this thread (more than once now) that you tend to miss certain important things like spaces when typing your commands. The Linux shell prompt is very sensitive to that sort of thing, and you can actually do more harm than good by typing the commands wrong. For instance, in the FSCK instructions, if you accidentally type unmount instead of umount, things will not work as expected.

So please, for the love of God, copy and paste the commands instead of trying to type them in.

Ok. no problem cut and paste. Its hard to tell if there is a space or not due to the bbs. I want to make sure I enter it correctly but sometimes its hard to tell.

Ok. I'll try fsck and if that is no go then I'll try the commands you posted. Cut and paste as Tony suggested. I hope this works. Thanks again for all the help....