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#253274 - 03/04/2005 15:00 Empeg rebooting - clever people help please!
Major_Sarcasm
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Registered: 28/08/2003
Posts: 149
Loc: Isle of Wight, UK
Hi guys.

Can someone please advise on a problem? I installed Mark's Hijack version 419 yesterday. Put the player in the car for the drive to work this morning and got some errors, although I think this may be coincedence. Music kept pausing and an error like "hda irq timeout" or similar kept flashing on the display. I can't recall the exact error and, as you'll see below, I can't boot the player to make a note of it.

The player would recover from these errors and continue playing. Wondered if I had a HDD failing (I have 2x10GB) and so I brought the player indoors this evening to investigate via hyperterminal.

Unfortunately, since I powered up the player indoors, I've had "segfault error" flashing up for a split second being replaced with "sigkill error" whilst the player reboots continuously. I connected via hyperterminal and got the following text capture (it rebooted twice I think before I pulled the plug and killed the capture):

Code:





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 kernel.



Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v419 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Mar 23 18:44:43 EST 2005



Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11



Checking for extra DRAM:



c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e91ba9f0



NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.



empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 30102438) 16MB DRAM



Command line: mem=16m



Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS



Memory: 15008k/16M available (984k code, 20k reserved, 368k 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)



Starting kswapd v 1.5 



SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled



ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART



ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART



ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART



Signature is 20706d65 'emp '



Found custom animation at offset 0x97b70



Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1



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 d0005080).



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...



hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive



hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive



hda: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive



hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, ATA DISK drive



ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6



hda: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB Cache, CHS=19485/16/63



hdb: IBM-DJSA-210, 9590MB w/384kB 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:d7:26:09:86



Partition check:



 hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4



 hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4



RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0



RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\done.



EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended



VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).



empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)

Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.



change_root: old root has d_count=1



Trying to unmount old root ... okay



Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8

I see this is a developer image!

Mounting proc

Mounting first music partition

Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19

Mounting second music partition

Remounting first music partition read-only

Remounting second music partition read-only

Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...

Starting player

Timezone: GMT



Hijack: intercepting config.ini





/drive0/var/ttsclock: getopts: `Option

': not a valid identifier

Saved AC volume was 90

Volume=90

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"



hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"



khttpd: listening on port 80



kftpd: listening on port 21



  player.cpp        : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.

Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003

Vcb: 0x4086d000

player(31): memory violation at pc=0x02035784, lr=0x00000000 (bad address=0x022024c8, code 2)



pc : [<02035784>]    lr : [<00000000>]



sp : be3ffbe4  ip : cccccccd  fp : be3ffc0c



r10: 02177e48  r9 : 00000000  r8 : 02177e44



r7 : 00000002  r6 : 021518a0  r5 : 00000000  r4 : 00000000



r3 : 022024c0  r2 : 02177e44  r1 : 0000000b  r0 : 02176740



Flags: Nzcv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode USER_32  Segment user



Control: C0F6D17D  Table: C0F6D17D  DAC: 00000015



Function entered at [<02035718>] from [<020211e0>]



 r10 = BE3FFD2C  r9 = 00000000  r8 = 00000000  r7 = 02135800



 r6 = 02135800  r5 = 02135800  r4 = 02177D78 



Function entered at [<020211a8>] from [<0201fec4>]



 r5 = 02177D78  r4 = 00000002 



Function entered at [<0201fe38>] from [<0201f31c>]



 r8 = 021357F4  r7 = 02177D78  r6 = 02170938  r5 = BE3FFC74



 r4 = 02177D78 



Function entered at [<0201f300>] from [<0201e588>]



 r5 = 00000002  r4 = 00002D4B 



Function entered at [<0201e4ec>] from [<02003f08>]



 r8 = 02177BA0  r7 = BE3FFD2C  r6 = 02177BA0  r5 = 00000000



 r4 = BE3FFD2C 



Function entered at [<02003eec>] from [<02002c78>]



Function entered at [<02002aac>] from [<020037d0>]



 r10 = 02177C38  r9 = BE3FFD2C  r8 = BE3FFD30  r7 = BE3FFD2C



 r6 = 02177BA0  r5 = 00000000  r4 = BE3FFD2C 



Function entered at [<02003574>] from [<020ad4f0>]



 r10 = 020AD438  r9 = 02177BA0  r8 = 00002C0C  r7 = 00000080



 r6 = 0000000C  r5 = 02177BA0  r4 = BE3FFD64 



Function entered at [<020ad438>] from [<020b4824>]



 r5 = 02177BB8  r4 = BE3FFE40 



Function entered at [<020b475c>] from [<020e9bbc>]



 r4 = 00000000 



Function entered at [<020e8330>] from [<020b45a0>]



 r8 = 02156F2C  r7 = 02156F18  r6 = 020AD438  r5 = 00000007



 r4 = 00000001 



Function entered at [<020b44f0>] from [<020e9bbc>]



 r5 = 00000000  r4 = 00000000 



Function entered at [<00000020>] from [<bffffc3c>]



Function entered at [<0000fff4>] from [<00010000>]



Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000fff8



memmap = C0F6C000, pgd = c0f6c000



*pgd = c0f74801, *pmd = c0f74801, *pte = 00000000, *ppte = 00000000



Internal error: Oops: 2



CPU: 0



pc : [<c00e3938>]    lr : [<c0019910>]



sp : c087bf44  ip : c087bf00  fp : c087bf90



r10: 00000002  r9 : c0f9a0e0  r8 : 0000000c



r7 : 00000000  r6 : 0000fff4  r5 : 00010000  r4 : fffffffc



r3 : 60000013  r2 : c0104284  r1 : 00000001  r0 : ffffffec



Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  Segment user



Control: C0F6D17D  Table: C0F6D17D  DAC: 00000015



Process player (pid: 31, stackpage=c087b000)



Stack: 



c087bf20:                                               c0019910 c00e3938 60000013 



c087bf40: ffffffff c0f9a0f8 c0f992a0 c087a000  c087bfb8 022024c8 c0011ba4 00000000 



c087bf60: 022024c8 00000002 c087bfb8 00000005  022024c8 00000000 00000002 00000000 



c087bf80: 02177e48 c087bfb4 c087bf94 c0012100  c0011948 c010297c 00000000 021518a0 



c087bfa0: 00000002 02177e44 00000000 c087bfb8  c000a0c8 c0012028 02176740 0000000b 



c087bfc0: 02177e44 022024c0 00000000 00000000  021518a0 00000002 02177e44 00000000 



c087bfe0: 02177e48 be3ffc0c cccccccd be3ffbe4  00000000 02035784 80000010 ffffffff 



Backtrace: 



Function entered at [<c001193c>] from [<c0012100>]



 r10 = 02177E48  r9 = 00000000  r8 = 00000002  r7 = 00000000



 r6 = 022024C8  r5 = 00000005  r4 = C087BFB8 



Function entered at [<c001201c>] from [<c000a0c8>]



 r8 = 02177E44  r7 = 00000002  r6 = 021518A0  r5 = 00000000



 r4 = C010297C 



Code: ebfcd771 e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc 



Restored terminal settings

Remounting first music partition read-only

Remounting second music partition read-only

Abnormal player termination

Player received signal 11

Starting playTimezone: GMT



er

Hijack: intercepting config.ini





  player.cpp        : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.

Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Mar 26 2003

Vcb: 0x4086d000

player(46): memory violation at pc=0x02035784, lr=0x00000000 (bad address=0x022024c8, code 2)



pc : [<02035784>]    lr : [<00000000>]



sp : be3ffbe4  ip : cccccccd  fp : be3ffc0c



r10: 02177e48  r9 : 00000000  r8 : 02177e44



r7 : 00000002  r6 : 021518a0  r5 : 00000000  r4 : 00000000



r3 : 022024c0  r2 : 02177e44  r1 : 0000000b  r0 : 02176740



Flags: Nzcv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode USER_32  Segment user



Control: C0F6D17D  Table: C0F6D17D  DAC: 00000015



Function entered at [<02035718>] from [<020211e0>]



 r10 = BE3FFD2C  r9 = 00000000  r8 = 00000000  r7 = 02135800



 r6 = 02135800  r5 = 02135800  r4 = 02177D78 



Function entered at [<020211a8>] from [<0201fec4>]



 r5 = 02177D78  r4 = 00000002 



Function entered at [<0201fe38>] from [<0201f31c>]



 r8 = 021357F4  r7 = 02177D78  r6 = 02170938  r5 = BE3FFC74



 r4 = 02177D78 



Function entered at [<0201f300>] from [<0201e588>]



 r5 = 00000002  r4 = 00002D4B 



Function entered at [<0201e4ec>] from [<02003f08>]



 r8 = 02177BA0  r7 = BE3FFD2C  r6 = 02177BA0  r5 = 00000000



 r4 = BE3FFD2C 



Function entered at [<02003eec>] from [<02002c78>]



Function entered at [<02002aac>] from [<020037d0>]



 r10 = 02177C38  r9 = BE3FFD2C  r8 = BE3FFD30  r7 = BE3FFD2C



 r6 = 02177BA0  r5 = 00000000  r4 = BE3FFD2C 



Function entered at [<02003574>] from [<020ad4f0>]



 r10 = 020AD438  r9 = 02177BA0  r8 = 00002C0C  r7 = 00000080



 r6 = 0000000C  r5 = 02177BA0  r4 = BE3FFD64 



Function entered at [<020ad438>] from [<020b4824>]



 r5 = 02177BB8  r4 = BE3FFE40 



Function entered at [<020b475c>] from [<020e9bbc>]



 r4 = 00000000 



Function entered at [<020e8330>] from [<020b45a0>]



 r8 = 02156F2C  r7 = 02156F18  r6 = 020AD438  r5 = 00000007



 r4 = 00000001 



Function entered at [<020b44f0>] from [<020e9bbc>]



 r5 = 00000000  r4 = 00000000 



Function entered at [<00000020>] from [<bffffc3c>]



Function entered at [<0000fff4>] from [<00010000>]



Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000fff8



memmap = C0F6C000, pgd = c0f6c000



*pgd = c0f74801, *pmd = c0f74801, *pte = 00000000, *ppte = 00000000



Internal error: Oops: 2



CPU: 0



pc : [<c00e3938>]    lr : [<c0019910>]



sp : c08e1f44  ip : c08e1f00  fp : c08e1f90



r10: 00000002  r9 : c0f9a0e0  r8 : 0000000c



r7 : 00000000  r6 : 0000fff4  r5 : 00010000  r4 : fffffffc



r3 : 60000013  r2 : c0104284  r1 : 00000001  r0 : ffffffec



Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  Segment user



Control: C0F6D17D  Table: C0F6D17D  DAC: 00000015



Process player (pid: 46, stackpage=c08e1000)



Stack: 



c08e1f20:                                               c0019910 c00e3938 60000013 



c08e1f40: ffffffff c0f9a0f8 c0f994e0 c08e0000  c08e1fb8 022024c8 c0011ba4 00000000 



c08e1f60: 022024c8 00000002 c08e1fb8 00000005  022024c8 00000000 00000002 00000000 



c08e1f80: 02177e48 c08e1fb4 c08e1f94 c0012100  c0011948 c010297c 00000000 021518a0 



c08e1fa0: 00000002 02177e44 00000000 c08e1fb8  c000a0c8 c0012028 02176740 0000000b 



c08e1fc0: 02177e44 022024c0 00000000 00000000  021518a0 00000002 02177e44 00000000 



c08e1fe0: 02177e48 be3ffc0c cccccccd be3ffbe4  00000000 02035784 80000010 ffffffff 



Backtrace: 



Function entered at [<c001193c>] from [<c0012100>]



 r10 = 02177E48  r9 = 00000000  r8 = 00000002  r7 = 00000000



 r6 = 022024C8  r5 = 00000005  r4 = C08E1FB8 



Function entered at [<c001201c>] from [<c000a0c8>]



 r8 = 02177E44  r7 = 00000002  r6 = 021518A0  r5 = 00000000





 r4 = C010297C 



Code: ebfcd771 e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc 



Restored terminal settings

Remounting first music partition read-only

Remounting second music partition read-only

Abnormal player termination

Player received signal 11

Starting playTimezone: GMT



er

Hijack: intercepting config.ini





  player.cpp        : 385:empeg-car 2.00 2003/04/01.


Can anyone shed light on this please? If it is just a HDD, I can replace and upload all my songs again without too much hassle as I keep a copy on my PC, but I noticed some memory errors in that text and now I'm worried.

As an aside, I reinstalled the v2.0 final developer image and Hijack 419 before getting the above capture. It had no effect on the symptoms. I should also mention that the unit had no problems like this (music pausing, etc) before today.

Thanks.
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#253275 - 03/04/2005 19:40 Re: Empeg rebooting - clever people help please! [Re: Major_Sarcasm]
SonicSnoop
addict

Registered: 29/06/2002
Posts: 531
Loc: Triangle, VA
What version of hijack were you using before ugradeing? Have you tried going back to that and seeing if it works or does the same? Have any 3rd party software running on it? Just a couple ideas of what I would check. Im sure the real brains around here will be in shortly.
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#253276 - 03/04/2005 20:00 Re: Empeg rebooting - clever people help please! [Re: Major_Sarcasm]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Your player software is crashing. Sometimes this is due to a corrupted tune.

I think the usual "fix" is to wipe the flash savearea, by manually using Control^C to kill the player, and then restarting it with the flag (??) to tell it to reset its saved settings.

But for your case, I think I'd like you to try a Hijack fix for it.. I'll release Hijack kernel v420 shortly (in a few minutes, at the link above). This version of Hijack automatically attempts to clear only the current playlist setting when the player crashes, rather than all of the player's settings. Let me know if it solves the problem or not (by posting here).

Thanks


Edited by mlord (03/04/2005 20:03)
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#253277 - 03/04/2005 20:15 Re: Empeg rebooting - clever people help please! [Re: mlord]
tfabris
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31600
Loc: Seattle, WA
Quote:
I think the usual "fix" is to wipe the flash savearea, by manually using Control^C to kill the player, and then restarting it with the flag (??) to tell it to reset its saved settings.

Usually the temporary fix is to start the player with no playlist as described here. That'll prevent the player app from crashing immediately, but won't solve the basic problem which is that he was getting hard disk error messages.
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#253278 - 03/04/2005 21:39 Re: Empeg rebooting - clever people help please! [Re: mlord]
Major_Sarcasm
member

Registered: 28/08/2003
Posts: 149
Loc: Isle of Wight, UK
Hijack v420 has no obvious effect. It's still rebooting ad infinum with the same hijack messages flashing up.

In answer to the 1st reply, I did try initially reverting back to hijack 417, but it just rebooted with no error messages, but it did take slightly longer to reboot. I noticed that it had lost it's position and wasn't showing a current playlist just before it rebooted.

When I was getting the hda messages earlier, they were appearing on several different tracks, so I don't think it's one specific song that's causing the errors.
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#253279 - 03/04/2005 21:57 Re: Empeg rebooting - clever people help please! [Re: tfabris]
Major_Sarcasm
member

Registered: 28/08/2003
Posts: 149
Loc: Isle of Wight, UK
Tony, your temporary fix of starting the player with the player -i switch worked, I have now managed to boot the empeg without the looping reboots - thanks.

Soooo. Do I have a hard disk on the way out? Is there any way to find out which one?
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#253280 - 04/04/2005 00:58 Re: Empeg rebooting - clever people help please! [Re: Major_Sarcasm]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
You'll not know now that you've done the "player -i".

Too bad.

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#253281 - 04/04/2005 08:38 Re: Empeg rebooting - clever people help please! [Re: mlord]
Major_Sarcasm
member

Registered: 28/08/2003
Posts: 149
Loc: Isle of Wight, UK
Damn.

Mark, what did your 419/420 error messages mean? The brief flash of the "segfault error" and then the longer "sigkill error" whilst the unit was rebooting. Just after the reboot, it would flash the "segfault" again before being replaced with "sigkill".

I have now selected several playlists at random, including one that gave me a hda error yesterday, so far with no problems / errors. I will go out in the car later, as I'm off-shift, and do a more thorough test.
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#253282 - 04/04/2005 11:38 Re: Empeg rebooting - clever people help please! [Re: Major_Sarcasm]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Those errors indicated the player was getting confused internally.

This could have been due to a corrupted playlist or track, or due to hard drive read errors (Faulty cable, shoddy soldering of IDE header, etc..). The hard drive errors may come and go with temperature changes, vibration, dumb luck, etc..

Cheers

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#253283 - 05/04/2005 07:21 Re: Empeg rebooting - clever people help please! [Re: mlord]
Major_Sarcasm
member

Registered: 28/08/2003
Posts: 149
Loc: Isle of Wight, UK
Hmm, thanks for that.

The IDE cable has been replaced, although it was a little while ago so I suppose it could be faulty again, and the soldering on my IDE header was done early last year to a reasonable standard, again I suppose it could be that, but it seems (hopefully) unlikely.

My field test yesterday yielded no unexpected results, so, a result in itself! The Empeg behaved perfectly, as it usually does. I selected a bunch of different playlists, including ones that had given me errors a couple of days ago, and no problems arose.

Hopefully whatever was troubling the unit has gone away for the moment.

Thanks for your help guys, it was much appreciated! Even if the root cause wasn't identified, I have a useable Empeg again at least for the moment.
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