Hi there. I am having some problems with my player. I just received the player yesterday, upgraded to version 2.00-beta 3, and copied a few songs up into the database. I made a playlist and was playing it for a bit before deciding to start over and get rid of my test data. I then removed all my songs and the playlist.This is where the fun starts.

The player will startup and get to the startup screen where it says "starting audio." I know it dies here because the player does not like not having a playlist available (learned this the hard way -- searching other people's posts) and will not respond to emplode. Interestingly, I can get into bash and walk my way around but don't know what to do.

Since emplode won't start up, I don't know how to reimage the device. The device does get an IP address, but it does not respond to the network connect or to the serial connect. The machine does respond to a ping but will not allow me to access it via emplode. Any ideas what to do?

Here's the startup text. I appreciate any help that can be provided. It just stops after the last DHCP item is issued. Any key will exit out to bash.

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 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg49 (mac@aphex.internal.empeg.com) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #127 Wed Oct 17 16:02:35 BST 2001
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 40103375)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15024k/16M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 372k 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)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
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 206f6972 'rio '
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
Could not find CS4231A (version=80)
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004200).
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 MHM2200AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2200AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2200AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2200AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2200AT, ATA DISK drive
hda: FUJITSU MHM2200AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: FUJITSU MHM2200AT, 19077MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63
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:d7:28:0d:2f
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 initI see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
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 Comp
Starting player
empeg-car 2.00-beta3 2001/10/17.
E !! tags.cpp 61: Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Rebuild 0ms
0000000b DHCP name = lo
0000000b DHCP index = 1
0000000b DHCP flags = 0x8
0000000b DHCP addr = 0.0.0.0
0000000b DHCP bcast = 0.0.0.0
0000000b DHCP mask = 0.0.0.0
0000000b DHCP name = eth0
0000000b DHCP index = 2
0000000b DHCP flags = 0x1002
0000000b DHCP addr = 0.0.0.0
0000000b DHCP bcast = 0.0.0.0
0000000b DHCP mask = 0.0.0.0
0000000b DHCP Our mac is 00:02:d7:28:0d:2f
0000000b DHCP Current IP address is 0.0.0.0
0000000b DHCP Broadcast address is 0.0.0.0
0000000b DHCP Attempting to open Autonet socket for eth0
0000000b DHCP Adding interface eth0
0000000b DHCP Sending DHCP discover (eth0)
0000000b DHCP Extensions present: 61 53 55 57
0000000b DHCP Testing Autonet address 169.254.43.220
0000000b DHCP Got a BOOTP packet from 192.168.1.1 (eth0)
0000000b DHCP Got bootp reply packet, client=00000000, server=0101a8c0, your=2601a8c0 (eth0)
0000000b DHCP Received DHCPOFFER
0000000b DHCP Extensions present: 53 1 3 6 58 59 51 54
0000000b DHCP siaddr=0101a8c0 serverid=0101a8c0 srcip=0101a8c0
0000000b DHCP Accepting offer of IP 192.168.1.38 from server 192.168.1.1
0000000b DHCP Server's xid was 6dfeae29
0000000b DHCP Constructing DHCP request to send to 255.255.255.255 (eth0)
0000000b DHCP We believe eth0 IP address to be 192.168.1.38.
0000000b DHCP Sending DHCP request (eth0)
0000000b DHCP Extensions present: 61 53 55 57 54 50
0000000b DHCP Sent DHCPREQUEST packet (XID=6dfeae29, secs=0) to 255.255.255.255 (eth0)
0000000b DHCP Got a BOOTP packet from 192.168.1.1 (eth0)
0000000b DHCP Got bootp reply packet, client=00000000, server=0101a8c0, your=2601a8c0 (eth0)
0000000b DHCP Received DHCPACK
0000000b DHCP Extensions present: 53 1 3 6 58 59 51 54
0000000b DHCP dhcp lease/renew/rebind 259200/129600/226800
0000000b DHCP after tweak, dhcp lease/renew/rebind 259200/129600/226800
0000000b DHCP siaddr=0101a8c0 serverid=0101a8c0 srcip=0101a8c0
0000000b DHCP dns server 192.168.1.1
0000000b DHCP Setting IP address from DHCP: 192.168.1.38
0000000b DHCP DHCP packet contains netmask 255.255.255.0
0000000b DHCP Inferred broadcast address 192.168.1.255 from netmask and yiaddr
0000000b DHCP DHCP packet contains gateway 192.168.1.1
0000000b DHCP Netmask is now 255.255.255.0

You don't need to have emplode connecting to the device to reimage it. Just use the upgrade wizard (which is a separate app to emplode) to downgrade the player to 1.03

You should also downgrade emplode to 1.03

I just received the player yesterday, upgraded to version 2.00-beta 3, and copied a few songs up into the database.

Stop right there. 2.0 beta 3 has a bunch of known bugs, one of which is a pretty serious boot problem.

Downgrade to version 1.03 and see if the problem persists.

Then, if you're serious about testing beta software, use 2.0b7 not b3. Why did you try B3 anyway, why didn't you go to B7 if you just got the player?

Nice. Much better. Thanks. I have upgraded to 2.0 beta 7 and am a happy camper again.

2.0 beta 3 was the first one I saw. Yes, big mistake. Won't make that one again.

I recommend you stick with 1.03 for a while as it's stable. Both of the 2.0 betas have bugs, some of them are show-stoppers. A new 2.0 beta should be appearing fairly soon, I saw them marking some bugs as fixed in the database today.