I have been going through harddrives at the rate of 1 every 6 months or so. Symptomatically, the player would lock during playback, emit a periodic, low-volume squeal - as of the drive spinup cycling and triggering and sometimes give the "No Hard Drive" error. Replacing the drive (and reflashing obviously) has always seemed to fix the problem in the past (as well as give me an excuse to increase capacity). This time, however, things are different.

Now, the player never finishes booting. The screen gets to the tuner initialization (I don't have one) and then prints "Segfault error" and then "Segkill error" on the screen and reboots, in an endless loop). I am currently running 2.01 developer, and a console output from the error is below.

It looks to me like this may be a memory error. Anyone else have some familiarity with this? This is a MkII player (rio branded). I have had one of these since 2000 (my first was empeg branded), and there is still nothing on the market which touches it. I do not want to loose it.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
-S.




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-v464 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Fri Oct 27 01:00:29 EDT 2006
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c1000000: wrote ffffffff, read e28cc001
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101792) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15008k/16M available (988k code, 20k reserved, 364k 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 '
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 d0004500).
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...
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xd0d0
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0000
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0000
hda: FUJITSU MHV2100AH, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x2c00
hda: FUJITSU MHV2100AH, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x2c00
hda: FUJITSU MHV2100AH, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x2c00
hda: FUJITSU MHV2100AH, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x2c00
hda: FUJITSU MHV2100AH, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x2c00
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x2c00
hda: FUJITSU MHV2100AH, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHV2100AH, 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:d7:22:07:00
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.
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... hange_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: Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 5 2004
Vcb: 0x40891000
player(21): user memory violation at pc=0x020357dc, lr=0x00000600 (bad address=0x90885b3c, code 2)
pc : [<020357dc>] lr : [<00000600>]
sp : be5ffbe4 ip : cccccccd fp : be5ffc0c
r10: 0217e248 r9 : 999a6d33 r8 : 0217e244
r7 : 00000347 r6 : 02176120 r5 : 01423f4d r4 : 0102e447
r3 : 90885b34 r2 : 00034e65 r1 : 00001c71 r0 : 4086c008
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C0F3D17D Table: C0F3D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<02035770>] from [<020211e0>]
r10 = BE5FFD2C r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 02135A60
r6 = 02135A60 r5 = 02135A60 r4 = 0217E178
Function entered at [<020211a8>] from [<0201fec4>]
r5 = 0217E178 r4 = 00000347
Function entered at [<0201fe38>] from [<0201f31c>]
r8 = 02135A54 r7 = 0217E178 r6 = 021703B0 r5 = BE5FFC74
r4 = 0217E178
Function entered at [<0201f300>] from [<0201e588>]
r5 = 00000347 r4 = 00001C85
Function entered at [<0201e4ec>] from [<02003f08>]
r8 = 0217DFA0 r7 = BE5FFD2C r6 = 0217DFA0 r5 = 00000000
r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003eec>] from [<02002c78>]
Function entered at [<02002aac>] from [<020037d0>]
r10 = 0217E038 r9 = BE5FFD2C r8 = BE5FFD30 r7 = BE5FFD2C
r6 = 0217DFA0 r5 = 00000000 r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003574>] from [<020ad710>]
r10 = 020AD658 r9 = 0217DFA0 r8 = 0000280B r7 = 00000080
r6 = 0000000B r5 = 0217DFA0 r4 = BE5FFD64
Function entered at [<020ad658>] from [<020b4a44>]
r5 = 0217DFB8 r4 = BE5FFE40
Function entered at [<020b497c>] from [<020e9ddc>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<020e8550>] from [<020b47c0>]
r8 = 02156A94 r7 = 02156A80 r6 = 020AD658 r5 = 00000007
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<020b4710>] from [<020e9ddc>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<00000020>] from [<bffffbc0>]
Function entered at [<0000fff4>] from [<00010000>]
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000fff8
memmap = C0F3C000, pgd = c0f3c000
*pgd = c0f78801, *pmd = c0f78801, *pte = 00000000, *ppte = 00000000
Internal error: Oops: 2
CPU: 0
pc : [<c00e43e0>] lr : [<c0019930>]
sp : c05cdf44 ip : c05cdf00 fp : c05cdf90
r10: 00000002 r9 : c0f9f0e0 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: C0F3D17D Table: C0F3D17D DAC: 00000015
Process player (pid: 21, stackpage=c05cd000)
Stack:
c05cdf20: c0019930 c00e43e0 60000013
c05cdf40: ffffffff c0f9f0f8 c0f9e6e0 c05cc000 c05cdfb8 90885b3c c0011bc8 00000600
c05cdf60: 90885b3c 00000002 c05cdfb8 00000005 90885b3c 00000000 00000002 999a6d33
c05cdf80: 0217e248 c05cdfb4 c05cdf94 c0012124 c0011968 c010297c 01423f4d 02176120
c05cdfa0: 00000347 0217e244 00000000 c05cdfb8 c000a0c8 c001204c 4086c008 00001c71
c05cdfc0: 00034e65 90885b34 0102e447 01423f4d 02176120 00000347 0217e244 999a6d33
c05cdfe0: 0217e248 be5ffc0c cccccccd be5ffbe4 00000600 020357dc 20000010 ffffffff
Backtrace:
Function entered at [<c001195c>] from [<c0012124>]
r10 = 0217E248 r9 = 999A6D33 r8 = 00000002 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 90885B3C r5 = 00000005 r4 = C05CDFB8
Function entered at [<c0012040>] from [<c000a0c8>]
r8 = 0217E244 r7 = 00000347 r6 = 02176120 r5 = 01423F4D
r4 = C010297C
Code: ebfcd4cf e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc
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 playTimezone: Atlantic/Cape_Verde
er
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 5 2004
Vcb: 0x40891000
player(35): user memory violation at pc=0x020357dc, lr=0x00000600 (bad address=0x90885b3c, code 2)
pc : [<020357dc>] lr : [<00000600>]
sp : be5ffbe4 ip : cccccccd fp : be5ffc0c
r10: 0217e248 r9 : 999a6d33 r8 : 0217e244
r7 : 00000347 r6 : 02176120 r5 : 01423f4d r4 : 0102e447
r3 : 90885b34 r2 : 00034e65 r1 : 00001c71 r0 : 4086c008
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C0F3D17D Table: C0F3D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<02035770>] from [<020211e0>]
r10 = BE5FFD2C r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 02135A60
r6 = 02135A60 r5 = 02135A60 r4 = 0217E178
Function entered at [<020211a8>] from [<0201fec4>]
r5 = 0217E178 r4 = 00000347
Function entered at [<0201fe38>] from [<0201f31c>]
r8 = 02135A54 r7 = 0217E178 r6 = 021703B0 r5 = BE5FFC74
r4 = 0217E178
Function entered at [<0201f300>] from [<0201e588>]
r5 = 00000347 r4 = 00001C85
Function entered at [<0201e4ec>] from [<02003f08>]
r8 = 0217DFA0 r7 = BE5FFD2C r6 = 0217DFA0 r5 = 00000000
r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003eec>] from [<02002c78>]
Function entered at [<02002aac>] from [<020037d0>]
r10 = 0217E038 r9 = BE5FFD2C r8 = BE5FFD30 r7 = BE5FFD2C
r6 = 0217DFA0 r5 = 00000000 r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003574>] from [<020ad710>]
r10 = 020AD658 r9 = 0217DFA0 r8 = 0000280B r7 = 00000080
r6 = 0000000B r5 = 0217DFA0 r4 = BE5FFD64
Function entered at [<020ad658>] from [<020b4a44>]
r5 = 0217DFB8 r4 = BE5FFE40
Function entered at [<020b497c>] from [<020e9ddc>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<020e8550>] from [<020b47c0>]
r8 = 02156A94 r7 = 02156A80 r6 = 020AD658 r5 = 00000007
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<020b4710>] from [<020e9ddc>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<00000020>] from [<bffffbc0>]
Function entered at [<0000fff4>] from [<00010000>]
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000fff8
memmap = C0F3C000, pgd = c0f3c000
*pgd = c0f78801, *pmd = c0f78801, *pte = 00000000, *ppte = 00000000
Internal error: Oops: 2
CPU: 0
pc : [<c00e43e0>] lr : [<c0019930>]
sp : c03cbf44 ip : c03cbf00 fp : c03cbf90
r10: 00000002 r9 : c0f9f0e0 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: C0F3D17D Table: C0F3D17D DAC: 00000015
Process player (pid: 35, stackpage=c03cb000)
Stack:
c03cbf20: c0019930 c00e43e0 60000013
c03cbf40: ffffffff c0f9f0f8 c0f9e820 c03ca000 c03cbfb8 90885b3c c0011bc8 00000600
c03cbf60: 90885b3c 00000002 c03cbfb8 00000005 90885b3c 00000000 00000002 999a6d33
c03cbf80: 0217e248 c03cbfb4 c03cbf94 c0012124 c0011968 c010297c 01423f4d 02176120
c03cbfa0: 00000347 0217e244 00000000 c03cbfb8 c000a0c8 c001204c 4086c008 00001c71
c03cbfc0: 00034e65 90885b34 0102e447 01423f4d 02176120 00000347 0217e244 999a6d33
c03cbfe0: 0217e248 be5ffc0c cccccccd be5ffbe4 00000600 020357dc 20000010 ffffffff
Backtrace:
Function entered at [<c001195c>] from [<c0012124>]
r10 = 0217E248 r9 = 999A6D33 r8 = 00000002 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 90885B3C r5 = 00000005 r4 = C03CBFB8
Function entered at [<c0012040>] from [<c000a0c8>]
r8 = 0217E244 r7 = 00000347 r6 = 02176120 r5 = 01423F4D
r4 = C010297C
Code: ebfcd4cf e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc
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 playTimezone: Atlantic/Cape_Verde
er
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 5 2004
Vcb: 0x40891000
player(49): user memory violation at pc=0x020357dc, lr=0x00000600 (bad address=0x90885b3c, code 2)
pc : [<020357dc>] lr : [<00000600>]
sp : be5ffbe4 ip : cccccccd fp : be5ffc0c
r10: 0217e248 r9 : 999a6d33 r8 : 0217e244
r7 : 00000347 r6 : 02176120 r5 : 01423f4d r4 : 0102e447
r3 : 90885b34 r2 : 00034e65 r1 : 00001c71 r0 : 4086c008
Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user
Control: C0F3D17D Table: C0F3D17D DAC: 00000015
Function entered at [<02035770>] from [<020211e0>]
r10 = BE5FFD2C r9 = 00000000 r8 = 00000000 r7 = 02135A60
r6 = 02135A60 r5 = 02135A60 r4 = 0217E178
Function entered at [<020211a8>] from [<0201fec4>]
r5 = 0217E178 r4 = 00000347
Function entered at [<0201fe38>] from [<0201f31c>]
r8 = 02135A54 r7 = 0217E178 r6 = 021703B0 r5 = BE5FFC74
r4 = 0217E178
Function entered at [<0201f300>] from [<0201e588>]
r5 = 00000347 r4 = 00001C85
Function entered at [<0201e4ec>] from [<02003f08>]
r8 = 0217DFA0 r7 = BE5FFD2C r6 = 0217DFA0 r5 = 00000000
r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003eec>] from [<02002c78>]
Function entered at [<02002aac>] from [<020037d0>]
r10 = 0217E038 r9 = BE5FFD2C r8 = BE5FFD30 r7 = BE5FFD2C
r6 = 0217DFA0 r5 = 00000000 r4 = BE5FFD2C
Function entered at [<02003574>] from [<020ad710>]
r10 = 020AD658 r9 = 0217DFA0 r8 = 0000280B r7 = 00000080
r6 = 0000000B r5 = 0217DFA0 r4 = BE5FFD64
Function entered at [<020ad658>] from [<020b4a44>]
r5 = 0217DFB8 r4 = BE5FFE40
Function entered at [<020b497c>] from [<020e9ddc>]
r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<020e8550>] from [<020b47c0>]
r8 = 02156A94 r7 = 02156A80 r6 = 020AD658 r5 = 00000007
r4 = 00000001
Function entered at [<020b4710>] from [<020e9ddc>]
r5 = 00000000 r4 = 00000000
Function entered at [<00000020>] from [<bffffbc0>]
Function entered at [<0000fff4>] from [<00010000>]
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000fff8
memmap = C0F3C000, pgd = c0f3c000
*pgd = c0f78801, *pmd = c0f78801, *pte = 00000000, *ppte = 00000000
Internal error: Oops: 2
CPU: 0
pc : [<c00e43e0>] lr : [<c0019930>]
sp : c076bf44 ip : c076bf00 fp : c076bf90
r10: 00000002 r9 : c0f9f0e0 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: C0F3D17D Table: C0F3D17D DAC: 00000015
Process player (pid: 49, stackpage=c076b000)
Stack:
c076bf20: c0019930 c00e43e0 60000013
c076bf40: ffffffff c0f9f0f8 c0f9e3e0 c076a000 c076bfb8 90885b3c c0011bc8 00000600
c076bf60: 90885b3c 00000002 c076bfb8 00000005 90885b3c 00000000 00000002 999a6d33
c076bf80: 0217e248 c076bfb4 c076bf94 c0012124 c0011968 c010297c 01423f4d 02176120
c076bfa0: 00000347 0217e244 00000000 c076bfb8 c000a0c8 c001204c 4086c008 00001c71
c076bfc0: 00034e65 90885b34 0102e447 01423f4d 02176120 00000347 0217e244 999a6d33
c076bfe0: 0217e248 be5ffc0c cccccccd be5ffbe4 00000600 020357dc 20000010 ffffffff
Backtrace:
Function entered at [<c001195c>] from [<c0012124>]
r10 = 0217E248 r9 = 999A6D33 r8 = 00000002 r7 = 00000000
r6 = 90885B3C r5 = 00000005 r4 = C076BFB8
Function entered at [<c0012040>] from [<c000a0c8>]
r8 = 0217E244 r7 = 00000347 r6 = 02176120 r5 = 01423F4D
r4 = C010297C
Code: ebfcd4cf e2440010 (e5961004) e1a035a1 e59f20cc
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 playTimezone: Atlantic/Cape_Verde
er
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.

Looks like a possible "bad track".

Load the developer software (if you haven't already done so), and then connect via serial and hit "control-C" to kill off the player. Then do:

player -i

Usually that gets ya out of the crash loop. You might want to bring up the Hijack menu first, though, and copy down the FID it reports -- later on, you can examine that FID (track) and see if it really is corrupt or not.

Cheers

Not that "player -i" doesn't work -- it does, and it may be the preferable way to deal with this -- but sometimes you can't readily get to a serial console, in which case, when the player powers up, pound on the skip button like a wild monkey. In many cases, you can skip the track before the player gets to the segment that makes it crash. You might have to try a few times before it works.