1) I have a feeling mine also does this.
2) The reiserfs line is normal and has always been there.
3) Not so sure about the hdc.

Have you tried doing a small sync yet? I think you might be OK regardless of those messages.

Edit: Well yeah I walked away for a bit before hitting post...

Greetings!

Okay. The music partition is fine. The warning is happening with the root filesystem. Do you have any software running (third party) that is keeping the / filesystem open when you try to sync? It is not labeling it as dirty... Hmmm...

I would try the "fsck -fay /" again, but I am not sure it will help...

Great! The problem seems to be gone since after the manual disk check procedure!
I'm glad to know that those are not relevant errors. Thank you all! For the recors, I am running Alpha7+Hijack 329, and no other software.

Alpha 7? You may want to grab the most recent alpha.

I remember Alpha8 having a problem with EQ, which used to produce really bad noise when adjusted. Was this fixed on Alpha9? I remember I had some issue with that too, but since I can't remember precisely what, I'd be happy to give it a try once more, if the eq bug is not there any more.

Alpha 9 was definitely bad. The download page (http://www.empeg.com/v3alpha) specifically says not to use it.

I use Alpha 8 but don't use the eq much (at all really). The main problems I have are:
- tracks get randomly marked.
- bookmarks are very flaky.
- too may tweak order functions cause hangs at the end of the current track sometimes.

In terms of crashing and general stability, it's pretty good really. Basically it's the only way I can play oggs and also have the cross fade.

Alpha 7 didn't seem to save the running order properly which was hugely annoying for me.

Ok, I am now thinking there must be some other problem here.

It seems that every time I do a Sync "after a while", the process stops when uploading the playlists. The Sych eventually times out. So I need to go through this:

ro
umount /dev/hda4
umount /dev/hdc4
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile sync

as you suggested, everything seems to be ok and I can upload all the mp3s I need to: some times 2 mp3s, some times 3 or 4 albums.


Then weeks pass by, and when I try to upload mp3s, I'm back at the beginning. I can't figure out what this can be.

I am using emplode 2.00 final with Alpha 7. Now that I think about it, could that be a problem? As a matter of fact, I've been doing this since I installed Alpha7, until very recently, when I upgraded to a 100Gb drive. Since that time on, I've been going through the problem described above.

Any help is appreciated, of course. Thank you in advance.


Edit:
In emplode, I get this error when "Uploading PLaylists":
Task: initializing
Warning: %anyplaylistname% could not be synchronized., Connection timed out (Error 0x8004003e)

"Estimating Trasnfer Size" completes successfully.
"Uploading Tunes" instead gives me the same error as "Uploading PLaylists"

This happens with Ethernet connection. I am realtively sure it happened in USB too, but I may be wrong since I very rarely use USB.

The sync timeout was taking very long to occur for each song, and I was uploading 13 tracks. I am at work and I had to stop the syc brutally by turning off the player

Now, just in case it helps, here's what the player says at reboot:

______________________________________

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-v431 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Tue May 24 19:50:51 EDT 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 40103216) 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 67706d65 'empg'
Found custom animation at offset 0x98b7c
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
Scheduling custom logo.
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 d0004600).
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 MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, 95396MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=12161/255/63
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:d7:28:0c:90
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...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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: MET
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
Using non-standard cache size 90 (adjustment 10)
player.cpp : 564:empeg-car 3.00-alpha7 2004/02/13.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1490 Feb 13 2004
Vcb: 0x40693000

______________________________________

When I reapplied power (after killing emplode), the player of course rebuit the database.
Thrying to rule out emplode 2.0 from the possible problem souces, I decided to use Jemplode (latest version) and see what error I would get.

After starting Jemplode, the serial output on the player was:

________________________

Adding Swap: 16028k swap-space (priority -1)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.
no room for private writable mapping
error: -12
/sbin/fsck.ext2: Memory allocation failed while retrying to read bitmaps for /dev/hda4
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Restarting system.

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-v431 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Tue May 24 19:50:51 EDT 2005
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read 00000000
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40103216) 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 67706d65 'empg'
Found custom animation at offset 0x98b7c
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
Scheduling custom logo.
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 d0004680).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, 95396MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=12161/255/63
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:d7:28:0c:90
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...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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: MET
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
Using non-standard cache size 90 (adjustment 10)
player.cpp : 564:empeg-car 3.00-alpha7 2004/02/13.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1490 Feb 13 2004
Vcb: 0x40693000
____________________________________

Finally, emplode returned this error:

"Download problems
The following problems occurred during download:
There isn't a file with FID 2 on this device"


I have no clue what it means?! A fid file named "2" ? If so, why would it be a problem and how can i solve it?

Edit:

Sorry, disregard this message. My mistake. I tried to delete it but I could only edit it.

I also tried to sych with Jemplode before going through the

ro
umount /dev/hda4
umount /dev/hdc4
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile sync


procedure. As usual, checking media was required, and the album I was uploadeng was eventually added to the root and not to the playlist I chose. There definitely is something weird here.

Now Sych stopped saying "There is no device currently connected".

Ok. I decided to go through all passible checks that came to my mind.

So,

1. Entered the shell by pressing q via com port, and proceeded with the file system check.

empeg:/# ro
empeg:/# umount /dev/hda4
empeg:/# umount /dev/hdc4
umount: /dev/hdc4: not found
empeg:/# swapon /swapfile
Adding Swap: 16028k swap-space (priority -1)
empeg:/# fsck -fay /
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda5 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Deleted inode 2107 has zero dtime. Fix? yes

Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
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Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #1 (0, counted=1884).
Fix? yes

Free blocks count wrong (4498, counted=6382).
Fix? yes

Inode bitmap differences: -2107
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong for group #1 (1274, counted=1275).
Fix? yes

Free inodes count wrong (2582, counted=2583).
Fix? yes


/dev/hda5: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/hda5: 1513/4096 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 10002/16384 blocks
empeg:/# fsck -fay /
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda5 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda5: 1513/4096 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 10002/16384 blocks
empeg:/# fsck -fay /dev/hda4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda4: 18576/762368 files (13.3% non-contiguous), 59562302/97578810 blocks
empeg:/#
empeg:/# fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hdc4 is mounted.
fsck.ext2: Device not configured while trying to open /dev/hdc4
Possibly non-existent or swap device?
empeg:/# swapoff /swapfile
empeg:/# sync
empeg:/#

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Unplugged the empeg, and reapplied power. The player rebuilt the database. Here's the output on the com port:

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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-v431 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Tue May 24 19:50:51 EDT 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 40103216) 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 67706d65 'empg'
Found custom animation at offset 0x98b7c
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
Scheduling custom logo.
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 d0004c00).
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 MHU2100AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHU2100AT, 95396MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=12161/255/63
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:d7:28:0c:90
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...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
Tried to mount /dev/hdc4 but got error 6
Error mounting partitions (possibly already mounted)
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply.þStarting player
Timezone: MET
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
Using non-standard cache size 90 (adjustment 10)
player.cpp : 564:empeg-car 3.00-alpha7 2004/02/13.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
q
q
^A
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1490 Feb 13 2004
Vcb: 0x40693000

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Since I could not get to the shell by pressing q, I pressed Q in the player:

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player(19): user memory violation at pc=0x00000000, lr=0x020c76e8 (bad address=0x00000000, code 2)
pc : [<00000000>] lr : [<020c76e8>]
sp : be9ffc70 ip : 02195080 fp : be9ffc84
r10: 00000000 r9 : be9ffca8 r8 : 405d36cc
r7 : c004100e r6 : be9ffca8 r5 : 405d3568 r4 : be9ffcb4
r3 : 405d37fc r2 : 0000000c r1 : be9ffc70 r0 : 405d37fc
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C0F3D17D Table: C0F3D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<020c7698>] from [<02017d3c>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<02017a00>] from [<020e68d8>]
r10 = 020E6804 r9 = 405D35BC r8 = 00002009 r7 = 00000080
r6 = 00000009 r5 = BE9FFD38 r4 = 405D35BC
Function entered at [<020e68a0>] from [<020bdbfc>]
r5 = 021D85A0 r4 = 405D3568
Function entered at [<020bdbd0>] from [<020e6890>]
r4 = 405D35BC
Function entered at [<020e6804>] from [<021208f8>]
r5 = 405D35D4 r4 = BE9FFE40
Function entered at [<02120830>] from [<021571cc>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<02155940>] from [<02120674>]
r8 = 021E70A4 r7 = 021E7090 r6 = 020E6804 r5 = 00000005
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<021205c4>] from [<021571cc>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<fffffff4>] from [<bffffbc0>]
Function entered at [<0220a13c>] from [<00000019>]
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
Timezone: MET
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

Using non-standard cache size 90 (adjustment 10)
player.cpp : 564:empeg-car 3.00-alpha7 2004/02/13.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).


Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
No secondary hard disk
Abnormal player termination
Player received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.

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Here I decided to proceed with

fsck.ext2 -fay -b 32768 /dev/hda4

which I read about in the FAQ.
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empeg:/empeg/bin#
empeg:/empeg/bin#
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# rom
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck.ext2 -fay -b 32768 /dev/hda4
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda4

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

empeg:/empeg/bin#

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Recycled power, and it rebuilt the database again.

I started Jemplode. It rebouilt the database. Then it complained I had no fid n. 2.
I could then upload a number of tunes without any problem. However, from the serial port output, I got this:

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e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/hda4 is mounted.
ksock_rw(recv): error: -32
kftpd: ksock_rw() failed, rc=-32
ksock_rw(recv): error: -32
kftpd: ksock_rw() failed, rc=-32
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc0d0
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc0f0
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc100
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc110
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc120
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc130
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc140
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc150
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc160
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc170
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc180
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc190
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc1a0
! playlist_common.cpp: 773:Failed to get FID info for FID 0xc1b0
Restarting system.

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Still, on the UI of jemplode all seemed ok.

Then, I tried to uploade more tunes, and the first playlist stopped at 20%, as I coul read in jemplode. Now, it is there, sopped. I am trying to wait until I get some error. I will have to go through the entire file system check again. I think there is some problem with alpha7/ethernet.... I don't think it is cabling, since this happened with different cables in different locations.

I'll try that, Roger. Thanks.

For the record, after getting those errors on fsck -fay / , I fsck -fay / again an no errors showed. I suppose they were fixed?

Isn't there a version 2.10 of emplode that is supposed to be used with 3.0 alpha, not 2.0?

Stig

I've had similar problems with my units running v3alphas. Switching between emplode 2.0. emplode 2.1, and jemplode seemed to be part of the events leading up to it. Now I stick just with jemplode 69.0...1 and the biggest issue is that sometimes it stalls at the 20% point of the first update.

--Nathan

I just re-applied the Alpha7 on my empeg, and at the end I got this error:

Error "Could'nt Find Pump" occurred during stage 0x20 .

Wha does this mean?


However, my empeg seems to be working fine, and all playlists are there.

Re-applied. This time with no errors.

Ok, I decided to run smartctl following a FAQ. here is teh result:

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empeg:/drive0/var# ./smartctl -s on /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [arm-empeg-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
SMART Enabled.

empeg:/drive0/var# ./smartctl -l error /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [arm-empeg-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Error Log Version: 1
Warning: ATA error count 0 inconsistent with error log pointer 1

ATA Error Count: 0
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 0 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1 hours (0 days + 1 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 59 02 cf 2f 03 e0 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x00032fcf = 208847

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
20 00 02 cf 2f 03 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.107 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 02 8c 00 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.100 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 28 6c 48 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.086 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 10 5a 48 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.083 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 34 94 48 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.071 READ SECTOR(S)

Error -1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
00 00 03 11 00 00 00

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
cf 1d 00 00 00 40 02 52 40d+04:43:35.599 [RESERVED]
cf 1d 00 00 00 00 02 51 40d+04:43:35.599 [RESERVED]
8c 1d 00 00 00 00 02 4f 27d+04:29:01.312 [VENDOR SPECIFIC]
3e 1d 00 00 00 00 02 4e 12d+00:58:38.465 WRITE DMA QUEUED FUA EXT
96 1d 00 00 00 00 02 41 29d+03:05:13.536 STANDBY [RET-4]

Error -2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 89 hours (3 days + 17 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in a vendor specific state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
59 00 00 00 03 11 00 at LBA = 0x00110300 = 1114880

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
40 c4 52 1d 00 00 00 e0 12d+10:16:34.818 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S)
00 c4 51 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:52.994 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 c4 4f 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:35.842 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 c4 4e 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:15.874 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 c4 40 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:38.402 NOP [Reserved subcommand]

Error -3 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3074 hours (128 days + 2 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
03 11 e0 59 00 00 03 Error:

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
00 03 e0 c4 ac 1f 00 2f 00:00:16.384 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 00 e0 c4 ab 1f 00 00 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]
00 00 e0 c4 a9 1f 00 01 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]
00 00 e0 c4 a8 1f 00 40 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]
00 00 e0 c4 9b 1f 00 59 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]

Error -4 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
cf 00 2f 03 e0 59 00

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
27 cf 2f 03 e0 c4 f4 02 7d+18:11:42.208 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 8c 00 00 e0 c4 f3 02 7d+18:10:36.672 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 3e 01 00 e0 c4 f1 02 7d+18:08:25.600 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 96 40 00 e0 c4 f0 02 7d+18:07:20.064 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 0c 59 00 e0 c4 e9 02 7d+17:59:41.312 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT



empeg:/drive0/var#
empeg:/drive0/var# ./smartctl -t short /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [arm-empeg-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful.
Testing has begun.
Please wait 2 minutes for test to complete.
Test will complete after Wed Jul 6 21:54:08 2005

Use smartctl -X to abort test.
empeg:/drive0/var# ./smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [arm-empeg-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 174 -

empeg:/drive0/var# ./smartctl -l error /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [arm-empeg-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Error Log Version: 1
Warning: ATA error count 0 inconsistent with error log pointer 1

ATA Error Count: 0
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 0 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1 hours (0 days + 1 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 59 02 cf 2f 03 e0 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x00032fcf = 208847

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
20 00 02 cf 2f 03 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.107 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 02 8c 00 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.100 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 28 6c 48 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.086 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 10 5a 48 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.083 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 34 94 48 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.071 READ SECTOR(S)

Error -1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
00 00 03 11 00 00 00

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
cf 1d 00 00 00 40 02 52 40d+04:43:35.599 [RESERVED]
cf 1d 00 00 00 00 02 51 40d+04:43:35.599 [RESERVED]
8c 1d 00 00 00 00 02 4f 27d+04:29:01.312 [VENDOR SPECIFIC]
3e 1d 00 00 00 00 02 4e 12d+00:58:38.465 WRITE DMA QUEUED FUA EXT
96 1d 00 00 00 00 02 41 29d+03:05:13.536 STANDBY [RET-4]

Error -2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 89 hours (3 days + 17 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in a vendor specific state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
59 00 00 00 03 11 00 at LBA = 0x00110300 = 1114880

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
40 c4 52 1d 00 00 00 e0 12d+10:16:34.818 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S)
00 c4 51 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:52.994 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 c4 4f 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:35.842 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 c4 4e 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:15.874 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 c4 40 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:38.402 NOP [Reserved subcommand]

Error -3 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3074 hours (128 days + 2 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
03 11 e0 59 00 00 03 Error:

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
00 03 e0 c4 ac 1f 00 2f 00:00:16.384 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 00 e0 c4 ab 1f 00 00 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]
00 00 e0 c4 a9 1f 00 01 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]
00 00 e0 c4 a8 1f 00 40 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]
00 00 e0 c4 9b 1f 00 59 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]

Error -4 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
cf 00 2f 03 e0 59 00

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
27 cf 2f 03 e0 c4 f4 02 7d+18:11:42.208 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 8c 00 00 e0 c4 f3 02 7d+18:10:36.672 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 3e 01 00 e0 c4 f1 02 7d+18:08:25.600 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 96 40 00 e0 c4 f0 02 7d+18:07:20.064 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 0c 59 00 e0 c4 e9 02 7d+17:59:41.312 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
______________________________

I am now performing a loooong test.

However, how worried should I be?

The long selftest will tell all.

The older error logs indicate one bad sector at around the 100MB mark on the disk. The other messages are less clear, but it does seem that this drive has been used in another computer (other than the Empeg) at some point.

Cheers

... and here is the long test result

_____________________________

empeg:/drive0/var#
empeg:/drive0/var#
empeg:/drive0/var#
empeg:/drive0/var#
empeg:/drive0/var# ./smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [arm-empeg-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 175 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 174 -

empeg:/drive0/var# ./smartctl -l error /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.33 [arm-empeg-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Error Log Version: 1
Warning: ATA error count 0 inconsistent with error log pointer 1

ATA Error Count: 0
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 0 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1 hours (0 days + 1 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
40 59 02 cf 2f 03 e0 Error: UNC at LBA = 0x00032fcf = 208847

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
20 00 02 cf 2f 03 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.107 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 02 8c 00 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.100 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 28 6c 48 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.086 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 10 5a 48 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.083 READ SECTOR(S)
20 00 34 94 48 00 e0 00 6d+09:12:50.071 READ SECTOR(S)

Error -1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
00 00 03 11 00 00 00

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
cf 1d 00 00 00 40 02 52 40d+04:43:35.599 [RESERVED]
cf 1d 00 00 00 00 02 51 40d+04:43:35.599 [RESERVED]
8c 1d 00 00 00 00 02 4f 27d+04:29:01.312 [VENDOR SPECIFIC]
3e 1d 00 00 00 00 02 4e 12d+00:58:38.465 WRITE DMA QUEUED FUA EXT
96 1d 00 00 00 00 02 41 29d+03:05:13.536 STANDBY [RET-4]

Error -2 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 89 hours (3 days + 17 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in a vendor specific state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
59 00 00 00 03 11 00 at LBA = 0x00110300 = 1114880

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
40 c4 52 1d 00 00 00 e0 12d+10:16:34.818 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S)
00 c4 51 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:52.994 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 c4 4f 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:35.842 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 c4 4e 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:15.874 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 c4 40 1d 00 00 00 e0 00:00:38.402 NOP [Reserved subcommand]

Error -3 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3074 hours (128 days + 2 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
03 11 e0 59 00 00 03 Error:

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
00 03 e0 c4 ac 1f 00 2f 00:00:16.384 NOP [Reserved subcommand]
00 00 e0 c4 ab 1f 00 00 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]
00 00 e0 c4 a9 1f 00 01 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]
00 00 e0 c4 a8 1f 00 40 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]
00 00 e0 c4 9b 1f 00 59 00:00:00.000 NOP [Abort queued commands]

Error -4 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
cf 00 2f 03 e0 59 00

Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- --------------------
27 cf 2f 03 e0 c4 f4 02 7d+18:11:42.208 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 8c 00 00 e0 c4 f3 02 7d+18:10:36.672 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 3e 01 00 e0 c4 f1 02 7d+18:08:25.600 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 96 40 00 e0 c4 f0 02 7d+18:07:20.064 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT
27 0c 59 00 e0 c4 e9 02 7d+17:59:41.312 READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT

empeg:/drive0/var#

_________________________________________


And, since I am here, a big hello to all the partcipants to the empeg meet 2005. I am there with my hearth Have a great time for all of us "here", as well!

looks healthy.

Mark, that is comforting.
As to the fact it was used somewhere else, that is instead a surprise. I bought it as new few months ago. And, I would have been happier without the bad sector.
Well, as long as it works well and for long time on my empeg, and the bad sectors don't increase in number, I'm happy enough.

Thank you!