Hijack v418 is now released: the "geriatric player" release!

This version now dumps a 20-second popup message to the front display whenever a serious internal error is detected:

-- player crashes (various reasons displayed)
-- hard disk errors
-- kernel crashes (most, but not all)

As more and more of our players age, they may experience sudden slowdowns and glitches in the car, which until now were very difficult to diagnose. No more!

If you see one of these terse error popups, please make note of the message, to report it here later here for interpretation.

EDIT: Okay, good to go. For a moment I thought it might be DOA, but it turns out I was loading a Mk1 kernel onto my Mk2a (blush)

Cheers

No issues after all. Go for it!

I know this was mainly for Tony (and a few others) but thanks for making this public and for all the work you've put into Hijack!

Here, here! My sentiments exactly.

Mmm.. missed one of the out-of-memory messages, so I'll issuing v419 shortly to cover that case as well.

Cheers

You're pretty cool, Mark.

Oooh, this will be handy. Thanks Mark!

Let it be known:

MARK LORD IS THE MAN.

Thanks, Mark, this is extremely cool.

I'm running that version now, if the player freezes playback again, we'll know if it's a hardware fault right away.

I am guessing this message is a failing hard drive but this is what I am getting:

hda: disk error: read_intr

Any way to tell which drive is failing?I checked all cabling this morning but found nothing loose. I have two new 100gb drives on order.

Symptoms have been UI lockups, file corruption and sound glitching within the past few weeks. Mark put out the new HiJack just in time for me to test...

This player has been soldered and has had cable replaced also. I am getting the dreaded drive clicks now that it is safely inside in a quiet place. At least it is not a component on the empeg board.

My spare will get some use it seems for the next few days(weeks)...

Is there a list of possible failures that can be added as reference to this thead?

Sean

I got a "sigkill error" today... I was trying to go to the next song when it happened... what does this mean?

Mmm.. kernel page fault error.. possibly due to running too low on memory.

Cheers

Then I should increase the cache? Currently it's at normal with no adjustments through Hijack