Hi - read through the faq and tried to search this forum and couldnt find my specific problem. Screwing around with the player and got it in Aux in while its sitting on my desk here. It is sitting in "waiting" mode and I cant get it out with any remote button or the panel buttons. I tried to reinstall the firmware with no success. Suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks

Do any of the front panel buttons respond to your input? For example, can you bring up the main menu? If so, what happens when you select "Source"?

You said you reinstalled the firmware. What version of the firmware?

I have 2.0 consumer image, none of the front buttons respond. Thanks for the reply.

Wow, that's interesting. So when you unplug it and plug it back in again, it boots into Aux mode and then stays stuck there with the buttons non-responsive? Interesting.

Are you by any chance using Hijack and setting it so that it switches to the Aux input when the mute line goes high?

If not, get a boot log and post it here. Let's see if there's any odd errors coming up.

I had a very similar problem with my FIRST player. Support ended up having to replace the whole thing.
To get it unstuck, try this:
Get to a shell prompt over the serial connecton, and run the player manually with the option to ignore persist data. That always seemed to get it for me. Of course, you lose your volumne and current playlist as well..

Me.

Oh, and it had nothing to do with HiJack - my old player did it with and without HiJack installed.
As far as I can remember, there were no error-messages on the boot-log, however, the player process itself ran extremely high. Load averages topped 8.0 across the board.
(Now, thinking of it, I think that on mine, at least, you COULD get into the Hijack menu..)

Well I am glad I have you all interested lol. I will work on that bootlog for you now. In the meantime I can tell you I have 0 3rd party software installed. Just the regualr old Consumer image 2.0

Well that was easier than I expected here is the log from when I powered up the unit (which I can only do by unplugging it btw)

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)
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-empeg52 (rob@aphex) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #12 Tue Apr 1 18
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 40104301)
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
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 d0005200).
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: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, 9590MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu)

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:28:10:c
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...hange_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 20
03/04/01.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003
Vcb: 0x4086d000

Today I loaded Beta 2.13 and it seems to have reset the system and is working fine - thanks for your help let me know if you have any questions about what went wrong.

I wonder if part of the 2.0 consumer/final file was corrupted during download causing the strange behavior you saw? Others here can probably comment on the probability of this guess being right.

Glad it's going now.

-Zeke