Did you happen to notice if your player was frozen? Could you do anything through the normal player UI?

Mike

Nothing to do , I had to Off the player then I could use shell.

This is known.

It's actually mentioned in the corresponding FAQ section.

Hey Mike, can you put up a plain .jar file please? I don't want to use the InstallAnywhere stuff. I have had too many bad experiences with it.

Thanks,
-Mike

Here's the serial output when it fails at restart:

player(118): memory violation at pc=0x02078f34, lr=0x020f6fc8 (bad address=0x0000001c, code 2)

pc : [<02078f34>]    lr : [<020f6fc8>]

sp : be5fbb08  ip : be5fba80  fp : be5ffcb8

r10: 00000001  r9 : 00000005  r8 : 02244af0

r7 : ffffbea0  r6 : ffffbea4  r5 : be5fbb10  r4 : be5fbb34

r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 00000000  r0 : 00000000

Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode USER_32  Segment user

Control: C0EC917D  Table: C0EC917D  DAC: 00000015

Function entered at [<02078dbc>] from [<020785b8>]

 r10 = 00000001  r9 = 0219ADAC  r8 = 0219AC50  r7 = BE5FFCC0

 r6 = 0219ACF0  r5 = 0219ADAC  r4 = 02244AF0 

Function entered at [<02078424>] from [<02076a94>]

 r7 = 022423F8  r6 = 0219ACF0  r5 = 022423E8  r4 = 0000000C

Function entered at [<02076830>] from [<020ec52c>]

 r10 = 020EC474  r9 = 0219AC50  r8 = 0000280B  r7 = 00000080

 r6 = 0000000B  r5 = 0219AC50  r4 = BE5FFD64 

Function entered at [<020ec474>] from [<020f3808>]

 r5 = 0219AC68  r4 = BE5FFE40 

Function entered at [<020f3740>] from [<0212e80c>]

 r4 = 00000000 

Function entered at [<0212cf80>] from [<020f3584>]

 r8 = 0219712C  r7 = 02197118  r6 = 020EC474  r5 = 00000003

 r4 = 00000000 

Function entered at [<020f34d4>] from [<0212e80c>]

 r5 = 00000000  r4 = 00000000 

Function entered at [] from [<00000000>]

Function entered at [] from []

Function entered at [<23a0fef4>] from [<23a0ff00>]

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 23a0fef8

memmap = C0EC8000, pgd = c0ec8000

*pgd = 00000000, *pmd = 00000000

Internal error: Oops: 2

CPU: 0

pc : []    lr : []

sp : c0293f44  ip : c0293f00  fp : c0293f90

r10: 00000002  r9 : c0fa80e0  r8 : 0000000c

r7 : 00000000  r6 : 23a0fef4  r5 : 23a0ff00  r4 : e3a02000

r3 : 60000013  r2 : c00fe1e4  r1 : 00000001  r0 : e3a01ff0

Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  Segment user

Control: C0EC917D  Table: C0EC917D  DAC: 00000015

Process player (pid: 118, stackpage=c0293000)

Stack: 

c0293f20:                                               c0019670 c00dfb60 60000013 

c0293f40: ffffffff c0fa80f8 c0fa3920 c0292000  c0293fb8 0000001c c0011948 020f6fc8 

c0293f60: 0000001c 00000002 c0293fb8 0000000f  0000001c 00000000 00000002 00000005 

c0293f80: 00000001 c0293fb4 c0293f94 c0011e80  c00116f8 c00fc978 be5fbb10 ffffbea4 

c0293fa0: ffffbea0 02244af0 00000000 c0293fb8  c000a008 c0011da8 00000000 00000000 

c0293fc0: 00000000 00000000 be5fbb34 be5fbb10  ffffbea4 ffffbea0 02244af0 00000005 

c0293fe0: 00000001 be5ffcb8 be5fba80 be5fbb08  020f6fc8 02078f34 60000010 ffffffff 

Backtrace: 

Function entered at [] from []

 r10 = 00000001  r9 = 00000005  r8 = 00000002  r7 = 00000000

 r6 = 0000001C  r5 = 0000000F  r4 = C0293FB8 

Function entered at [] from []

 r8 = 02244AF0  r7 = FFFFBEA0  r6 = FFFFBEA4  r5 = BE5FBB10

 r4 = C00FC978 

Code: ebfce63f e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc 

Restored terminal settings

Remounting first music partition read-only

Remounting second music partition read-only

No secondary hard disk

Abnormal player termination

Player received signal 11

Starting player

empeg-car 2.00-beta3 2001/10/17.

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

Rebuild 71194ms

For people who are annoyed by the couple of bugs that have been reported so far, you can grab a replacement jemplode.jar -- This is a little more "unofficial" -- Once we get a couple larger features in, we'll do a "real" 2.0b2 with all the fanfare of installers.

http://www.batmanthehorse.com/jemplode/jemplode20.jar

Just replace jemplode.jar with this in your install directory (or you can actually run this standalone with java -jar jemplode20.jar).

Mike

Hey Mike, is this "unofficial" jemplode release still floating around somewhere? Am trying to use jemplode under Mac OS X 10.1, and it is a little flakey. Thought that the newer jar file might help, but I can't get to it anymore ...

It should be at the same place -- I just went to

http://www.batmanthehorse.com/jemplode/jemplode20.jar

and it downloaded .... When you say "flakey", can you describe what you're seeing?

ms

Just managed to grab it, thanks! Last night I was getting a 404 error message. Wierd! The "flakeyness" I've experienced consists of: Syncs failing with "media check failed" messages. i.e. nothing gets loaded across. The only way to sync successfully way to remove power from the empeg (even though jempeg had performed a soft boot that wasn't enough) and restart jempeg. The GUI hanging or going REALLY slowly. This would mainly happen after a sync (I took to restarting everything after every sync), but I had it happen a couple of times before a sync. Seemed to be caused by switching to another application and then back - OmniWeb if I remember correctly, but I can check it for you. Had to be real patient waiting for the sync button to come up so that I could save my changes. Sometimes the whole jempeg window would go completely grey, or wouldn't update, and I would have to switch to another program and then back to get the screen updated - the GUI would still be sluggish, but at least I could see where to make the next click :-) Would sometimes block the whole machine! That's as good as I can remember it this morning anyway. Would be happy to test it further for you. I think doing a drag and drop operation may have triggered the GUI funnyness before a sync. Hmmm. Is still GREAT being able to load stuff across on my Mac. I can stoop to using a Windoze box at work to tidy up tags and playlists (was too annoying in jempeg last night). Oh, one other thing I noticed, genres are often comming across strange (numbers in brackets instead of tags) and I have been getting -1 for the year quite often too. Maybe I should fix the tags in iTunes first and see how it behaves then ... Anyway, thanks again for the quick response :-)

Thanks for all the details ... Mike Comb reported some of this stuff on OS X as well. I'll break out the OS X laptop and start doing some more testing to see if I can track down what is going on.

Thanks Derek --

Mike

No worries. Actually I tried out the new jar file this morning before I came to work and it seems to be a LOT better. I could sync and jempeg was still quite useable afterwards. Nice :-)

Interesting .. I didn't really do that much to change stuff, but that sounds great :) I wonder if it was a weird artifact of the 0x0 pixel windows? Oh well, keep an eye out for those other problems and let me know which ones are still there ... I suspect all the genre and tag related stuff is still there, since that hasn't really changed.

Mike

Mike Comb reported some of this stuff on OS X as well

Yep, that all sounds pretty familiar. I believe Dan Z promised to come up with a work around for the year bug although it is actually a problem with the tag (there is an ID3 year tag there, but without any content). Are the sources for the ID3 package available somewhere? If so I could probably fix that one myself.

As far as the GUI slowness (ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception) I just tried again and that does seem to be fixed with the updated version. I had not tested it before since you said you hadn't had time to look at it. Maybe it is related to the updated progress dialogs? BTW, the problem I reported where the dialogs don't always go away under FreeBSD seems to be happening under OS X as well.

-Mike

As far as the GUI slowness (ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception) I just tried again and that does seem to be fixed with the updated version.

Uhhh, nevermind. It just happened again. It was fine for half a dozen test syncs, but as soon as I deleted all the test files I had synced and tried to sync one more time I got this problem again.

-Mike

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It still has the problem that a lot of the dialogs are iconified and at the bottom of the window stack on their 2nd and subsequent use. This applies to the "Working...", "Tune details", "Playlist details" dialogs, but not to the yes/no/etc confirmation dialogs.

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Seems to be fixed in JEmplode 2.0b11.