When ever my player reboots the visual stops and track pauses on the last song played. The only way to get the song to start is skip to the next song or fast forward. The other weird thing I noticed is Emplode only seems to find the player over Ethernet after I skip or fast forward the song.

I even tried rebuilding the disk with Mark's Big Disk builder and his 2.01 software with hijack. After that used maxfid and fidsift.

Any ideas?

MK2a
software version 2.01
Emplode 2.0
Hijack 515

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg55-hijack-v515 (hijack@rtr.ca) (gcc version
2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Wed Jul 20 09:24:02 EDT 2011
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 40103262) 16MB DRAM
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15000k/16M available (996k 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 636f6972 'rioc'
Found custom animation at offset 0x98378
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
show_message("Hijack v515 by Mark Lord")
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 d0004b00).
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 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x8080
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0xbfff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0xbfff
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0xbfff
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0xbfff
hda: ST9160821A, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0021
hda: ST9160821A, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0021
hda: ST9160821A, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0021
hda: ST9160821A, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0021
hda: ST9160821A, ATA DISK drive
ide_data_test: wrote 0x0000 read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xffff read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0xaaaa read 0x0021
ide_data_test: wrote 0x5555 read 0x0021
hda: ST9160821A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: ST9160821A, 305245MB w/8192kB Cache, CHS=38913/255/63, LBA48
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:b
e
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 ComðStarting
player
Timezone: EST
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
kftpd: listening on port 21
khttpd: listening on port 80
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 5 2004
Vcb: 0x4086d000
Dead temp.sensor, status=0x00

Good list of diagnostic steps to start with there, thanks. Especially the bit about how you ran the builder. (Take off and nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.)

Follow up questions:

1. Is it always the same song giving you the issue? Or is it all songs?

2. Did the problem only start happening after you ran MaxFid and FidSift, or did the problem happen before that?

3. What method is being used to reboot the player when this problem occurs? Does it also occur if you reboot using the Hijack menu option for restarting the player?

4. Are you using a customized Config.Ini file, and does the problem happen only after you put the custom Config.Ini back on the player after reformatting it?

5. When you ran it, the builder *did* format the hard disk completely, right, all the songs were gone and you had to re-synch them all, right?

Follow up questions:

1. Is it always the same song giving you the issue? Or is it all songs?

Happens on any song the player ends on.

2. Did the problem only start happening after you ran MaxFid and FidSift, or did the problem happen before that?

The problem just started last week. Continues to happen after the complete rebuild and synch of songs.

3. What method is being used to reboot the player when this problem occurs? Does it also occur if you reboot using the Hijack menu option for restarting the player?

I have tried pulling the plug in home mode, pulling the dock when it is in the car, and using Hijack reboot in both modes.

4. Are you using a customized Config.Ini file, and does the problem happen only after you put the custom Config.Ini back on the player after reformatting it?

Only thing custom is the choice of favorite visuals.
hijack]
[Options]
Name=Music
[User Info]
Email=
Phone=
Name=
[tuner]
region=us
[controls]
stalk_side=none
[hush]
hushpercent=20
[volumecap]
enabled=1
[ramp]
disabled=0
[display]
play_count=1
visual_names=1
caching=0
[kenwood]
disabled=0
[menu]
quit=1
sort_playlist=1
[shuffle]
deduplicate=0
[sense]
muteaction=0
mute=-1
[power]
off_timeout=60000
[aux]
source=
title=
artist=
[synchronise]
seq_num=18
[wendy]
flag_amount=0
[custom]
wendy=
[searches]
amount=0
[VisualFavourites_AM]
61=Flancedoor
60=InfoTex Twist
59=InfoTex Pist
58=InfoTex Persp
57=InfoTex OTT
56=InfoTex Zoom
55=InfoTex Dist
54=InfoTex Snow
53=InfoTex
52=StarDust
51=Tux too much
50=Tux Much
49=Sphere Plasma
48=Tube Plasma
47=Variscan
46=Svecofennian
45=Caledonian
44=Hercynian
43=Grampian
42=Hofmann
41=Sugar Cube
40=Tripping Prisoner
39=Tubular
38=Pianola
37=TimeShade 128
36=StereoLog 32
35=StereoLog 128
34=SpectroLog 128
33=Spectrokit 128
32=Spectroflip 128
31=StereoSpec 128
30=Spectrometer 128
29=Spectrometer 64
28=Spectrometer 32
27=Spectrometer 16
26=Eventview 64
25=Eventview 32
24=Eventview 16
23=Lavatory Floor
22=BorgBeat
21=Fantasy Fishnets
20=Hula Hoops
19=Casualty
18=OurEmEss
17=OurEmEss LR
16=Anna Vu
15=Funnelweb
14=Marquesas
13=Oscilloscope Cave
12=Oscilloscope Terra
11=Oscilloscope Zoom
10=Oscilloscope Persist
9=Oscilloscope LR
8=Oscilloscope
7=Sound Samosa
6=Rorschach
5=SoundFlag
4=Shapescape
3=Image Pan
2=Come To Daddy
1=Swarm
count=61
[VisualFavourites_AUX]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_DSP]
count=0
[VisualFavourites_FM]
count=0

5. When you ran it, the builder *did* format the hard disk completely, right, all the songs were gone and you had to re-synch them all, right?

The first time I ran it did not work right. It only recognized half the disk. Emplode only showed 128 of the 250 gigabytes. Had to format the drive using windows and use the builder again and all appeared normal.

new symptom. during the Emplode sync process Emplode hangs on the status it is on after the player reboots and won't finish until I use the skip or fast forward on the player. As soon as I do that and the track starts playing Emplode will finish synching.

Starting to think it was combination of things after reading a bunch of threads. removed a lot of music to free some fids and tried a synch but had same issue. Then manually rebuilt the database over serial. ran player -i command over serial. Then another sync with Emplode and it seems to be working fine at the moment.

Glad it's working for you again.

If it happens again, here are some suggestions of things to try:
- Remove those visual favorites from the config.ini and see if the problem goes away.
- If the problem doesn't go away, rebuild the player again if you're up for that (I know, it's a pain).
- After rebuilding the player, don't run MaxFid and FidSift yet, and put only a couple of songs onto the player at fist, and see if the problem has gone away.
- If the problem has gone away with only a couple songs, run MaxFid and FidSift with still only those couple of songs on the player. See if the problem comes back.
- If the problem hasn't come back yet, then start adding songs to the player in groups, checking for the problem after each group, and find out at which point the problem comes back.

Thanks for the extra ideas. I think it had to do with reaching my fid limit. Any way to figure out the actual fid count on the player and compare it to what I have available?