#184194 - 11/10/2003 13:02
RioMM Problems
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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I had previously said I wasn't considering buying a Karma until the 40GB model came out, the price dropped, and a flurry of positive reviews rolled in. Well the 40GB is still a ways off, the price hasn't really dropped much, and the reviews have been, well, mixed.
However, I have a trip coming up next weekend during which I will be in airplanes for extended periods of time. I also have several Circuit City locations within easy distance, and it was a really nice day to drive around looking for a new toy. So, I bought one. I figure if it turns out to not be the player of my dreams, I've got 30 days to return it.
Well, so far, I can't comment on whether it's the player of my dreams, because I'm running into software install problems. I'm running Win2K SP4. At first the software wouldn't install, and I realized that it was trying to run "setup_wrapper.exe" which I guess fires off the other program installs. setup_wrapper.exe wasn't running properly, so I tried installing the 3 sub-programs (Update, Taxi, and RioMM) separately, which worked. However, when I fired up Music Manager, it gave me an error "Cannot initialise RICHEDIT20.DLL." Which makes sense, because "RICHEDIT20.DLL" doesn't appear on my system, but RICHED20.DLL does. I assume it means RICHED20.DLL and it's just a typo or something.
Anyway, I've had some other programs complain about this once or twice, so I figured I might have a corrupt DLL. The only thing I could think of trying was to delete RICHED20.DLL and re-install RioMM. Sure enough, RICHED20.DLL reappeared after installing RioMM, but I got the same error when I started it. So clearly, it's not the contents of the DLL itself that are causing problems, but some other esoteric problem that I'm sure I'll have difficulty locating.
So right now, I can't get RioMM running. I did flash the latest firmware, and I can listen to the sample tracks, but that's going to get old. I found RioMM Lite and that seems to be working well for now, but I was looking forward to testing out USB2.0 and utilizing the "real" Music Manager (no offense, Mike.) Do I have any recourse other than to reinstall Windows to clean up whatever corrupt DLL is messing things up? I really don't want to do that...
Anyway, I'll probably have more comments shortly... Still finding my way around this thing.
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#184195 - 11/10/2003 13:11
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Greetings!
I also have Windows 2000 SP4 (Professional). I have riched20.dll as part of a windows uninstall, as part of the service pack files and in system32. I also have a riched32.dll as part of system32 and dllcache. I have no reference at all to a richedit20.dll anywhere searching my hard drives.
Quick and dirty troubleshooting tip - copy the file riched20.dll to richedit20.dll, and see if that clears up your RioMM problems. I will also post your message on the Karma Beta Board, to see if anyone else had that trouble.
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#184196 - 11/10/2003 13:13
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: pgrzelak]
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Quick and dirty troubleshooting tip - copy the file riched20.dll to richedit20.dll, and see if that clears up your RioMM problems. Been there, done that, no help. I'm assuming that because riched20.dll re-appeared after re-installing RioMM, that's the file it's talking about.
Thanks for posting to the beta board... Though my guess is "DLL Hell" isn't something they support.
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#184197 - 11/10/2003 13:15
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Assuming RICHEDIT20.DLL is a typo, can you search your registry for it?
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#184198 - 11/10/2003 13:17
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: pgrzelak]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Hmmm! You said you installed the three programs, but did you install the driver set???
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#184199 - 11/10/2003 13:18
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: pgrzelak]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Other than in my Google toolbar's search history, no appearances of "richedit20." "riched20" appears in an important-looking part of the registry though (under the CLSID branch.)
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#184200 - 11/10/2003 13:19
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: pgrzelak]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Oh, I did the driver thing, but didn't mention it above. Thought it was implied though since otherwise I wouldn't have been able to apply the new firmware.
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#184201 - 11/10/2003 13:20
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Valid point. Forgot about the firmware upgrade...
Hmmm...
How did the original Karma software install fail? Just curious. Have you tried removing the three individual components and retrying from the master install?
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#184202 - 11/10/2003 13:25
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: pgrzelak]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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How did the original Karma software install fail? Just curious. I put the Rio CD in, opened it, clicked "Install Rio Software" and nothing happened. I browsed through the CD to see the "install_wrapper.exe" that it's trying to call, opened that, and nothing happened. That's when I realized I wasn't going to get anywhere with the wrapper, and had to run the installs individually. Have you tried removing the three individual components and retrying from the master install? Yup, uninstalled them, downloaded the latest version, and tried running that, and it also died when running setup_wrapper.
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#184203 - 11/10/2003 13:28
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Okay...
Let's try something different. Where is/are your copies of riched20.dll? Mine are:
riched20.dll - c:\winnt\$NtServicePackUninstall$ - 422KB - 7/22/2002
riched20.dll - c:\winnt\ServicePackFiles\i386 - 422KB - 6/19/2003
riched20.dll - c:\winnt\system32 - 422KB - 6/19/2003
riched32.dll - c:\winnt\system32 - 4KB - 12/7/1999
riched32.dll - c:\winnt\system32\dllcache - 4KB - 12/7/1999
Actually, you should not have had to run the installs individually. That implies that something big and bad is happening.
Edited by pgrzelak (11/10/2003 13:29)
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#184204 - 11/10/2003 13:32
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: pgrzelak]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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I've got the same ones you have except no riched32.dll and no riched20.dll in dllcache. Otherwise sizes, dates, and locations are the same on the other 3.
Yeah I know I wasn't *supposed* to have to run the progs individually, but when I hit a brick wall, I look for a door, or at least a way around the wall, instead of banging my head on it.
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#184205 - 11/10/2003 13:33
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Valid point about trying to work around. It should have worked. But then, the main installer should have worked too...
Try copying the riched20.dll into that dllcache directory. I doubt it will help, but...
Do you want to try swapping out your riched20.dll for a different one?
Edited by pgrzelak (11/10/2003 13:34)
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#184206 - 11/10/2003 13:36
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: pgrzelak]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Try copying the riched20.dll into that dllcache directory. I doubt it will help, but... I don't *have* a dllcache directory, but I tried, and no dice.
Thanks for the suggestions, though. Hopefully someone in blue will have better ideas, otherwise, I see a long Windows reinstall in my future. Sigh.
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#184207 - 11/10/2003 13:41
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Did you reboot (I know, asking the obvious...)?
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#184208 - 11/10/2003 13:45
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: pgrzelak]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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A couple times, yeah. One of the Rio installations asked me to reboot and I did. Also rebooted at one point to install another program that uses riched20.dll just to see if that helped (which it didn't.)
Oh well, RMM Lite is doing the job for now... I think it has enough functionality for me to get acquainted with the Karma, but I'm not going to do my full sync until I get RMM working.
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#184209 - 11/10/2003 13:46
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Understood. I think you will hear directly from Rob or Mike or someone here about the RMM Load. Given that it is the weekend and travelling and all, I do not know when they will reply. If I see anything on the beta board, I will let you know.
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#184211 - 11/10/2003 15:41
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31594
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Wasn't there a known VIRUS which corrupted "riched20.dll" and/or placed additional infected versions of it on your hard drive? Anyone remember?
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#184212 - 11/10/2003 17:01
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tfabris]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
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A quick google turned up this.
-Zeke
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#184213 - 11/10/2003 17:30
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Yeah, W32.Nimda. I ran a scan and I don't have it or any other virus.
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#184214 - 11/10/2003 17:35
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31594
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Did you have it in the past, cleaned it, and it damaged your copy of riched20.dll? If I recall correctly, the riched20 file was completely replaced by the virus and the only solution was to restore riched20 from the original installation CD. (Haven't read back in the thread to see if you re-installed riched20 from the CD or not.)
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#184215 - 11/10/2003 17:41
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tfabris]
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Did you have it in the past, cleaned it, and it damaged your copy of riched20.dll? If I recall correctly, the riched20 file was completely replaced by the virus and the only solution was to restore riched20 from the original installation CD. (Haven't read back in the thread to see if you re-installed riched20 from the CD or not.) Never had Nimda. Going on 14 years without ever being infected with a virus or worm, actually.
Anyway as I mentioned earlier in the thread, I renamed the riched20.dll in my system32 directory and installed RMM, and the file reappeared, which means that RMM put its own copy (which obviously wouldn't be corrupted) there. Still no joy.
I'm very close to giving up and reinstalling Windows, I've pretty much tried everything.
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#184216 - 11/10/2003 18:11
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31594
Loc: Seattle, WA
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Hmmm, maybe it's not riched20.dll that's the problem, maybe it's one of its sub-dependencies. Do you happen to have Visual Studio installed and can right-click and hit "view dependencies" on that DLL?
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#184217 - 11/10/2003 18:39
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tfabris]
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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I have MSVC on here but it's left over from the last time I installed Windows, so the only thing that works on it are the command line utils (NMAKE, CL, etc) which is all I've used it for lately. But something tells me it probably depends on about a hundred different Windows DLL's so I'm not sure how far that'd get me anyway.
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#184218 - 11/10/2003 20:49
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tfabris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Okay, this is weird.
I did some more looking around, and when I delete riched20.dll, it automatically reappears after a few seconds. I used SysInternals "handle" program to try to figure out who's recreating it and it's the WINLOGON process. Now, I guess it's possible that Windows sits in the background and fixes this DLL if it gets deleted, but why this particular DLL? And where is it getting the original from if I'm deleting all copies in my c:\winnt directory? Does it just do an "undelete" in the background? I'm shift-deleting the file (not storing it in the recycle bin) so it'd have to be pretty clever about it.
I'm doing a full system virus scan now (before I ran a Nimda removal tool) to see if there's something fishy going on. So far it's found 59 viruses all in my email attachment directory (from a brief period of time when my email scanning was accidentally disabled) but none of them were actually executed. The virus scan is going to take a while... But this behavior seems different from any of the viruses I've seen that mention riched20.dll (they generally create many copies of it all over... This is specific to my Windows directory.)
Oh well, I don't have another Win2K box to test this on, so I dunno if it's normal behavior or not. On my Win98 box renaming riched20.dll means nothing, the file isn't getting auto-created. So either there's something about Win2K that does this automatically, or I have some kind of badness going on like a virus/worm that I haven't found yet.
Time to play some Solitaire while the virus scan completes...
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#184219 - 11/10/2003 21:07
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14491
Loc: Canada
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I really, really prefer RMM-Lite (aka RMML) over RMM -- it suits my environment and the way I work much better. But it (1) lacks the 480mb/s USB2 support (which is about 6-8X the speed of the ethernet when loading tunes..), and (2) it cannot rip tracks.
Cheers
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#184220 - 11/10/2003 21:10
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: mlord]
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Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
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I would mock integrated rippers, if I hadn't configured iTunes to rip anything upon insertion and then eject. So I guess I should shut up.
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#184221 - 11/10/2003 22:13
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: tonyc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
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I did some more looking around, and when I delete riched20.dll, it automatically reappears after a few seconds.
Windows File Protection is kicking in. To get Windows to even show the dllcache folder, you have to enable viewing of hidden and system files, and also enable viewing windows system files, both options are in the Folder Options dialog. (Sorry, not near a Windows box to find the exact text of these options).
Windows 2000 was the first Windows OS to really have this agressive restore, while 98 had System File Checker (sfc.exe) to detect problems manually.
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#184222 - 11/10/2003 22:30
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: drakino]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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Yeah, but I was deleting it from c:\winnt\system32 *and* c:\winnt\system32\dllcache at the same time. Plus whenever I've had Windows File Protection kick in, it shows a dialog like the one on that page. No such dialog is appearing now. I guess it could still be file protection, but it'd have to be pretty smart to restore even when I delete from both directories, right?
I'm *really* close to doing a reinstall. Probably about time for it anyway, I guess. Maybe I should think about upgrading to XP or 2K3 anyway.
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#184223 - 12/10/2003 05:57
Re: RioMM Problems
[Re: mlord]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 09/09/2000
Posts: 2303
Loc: Richmond, VA
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Is there a commandline ripper that you use that I could call out to and just auto import the results?
As far as USB, I can't do it with pure Java, but if somebody exposes it as a serial driver, I can probably hook up to it with the java serial comm package.
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