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Category: Main -> Known problems and troubleshooting questions
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·  Why do the visuals disappear every time I put it in the car? 
·  Why is the stereo image of my MP3 messed up? 
·  I get a 'pump' error when I try to upgrade my player firmware. 
·  I get a Windows Installer or MSI error when I install Emplode. 
·  I'm having trouble with my tuner module! 
·  My tuner gets terrible reception, but the extension cable is fine. 
·  My tuner doesn't tune in the correct frequency increments. 
·  When I pause/un-pause, or sleep/wake the player, it starts in a different part of the song. 
·  Why don't fast forward and rewind work properly? 
·  When I pull the power, sometimes it plays a different song when I start it again. 
·  I can't perform an upgrade, install a logo, or install a kernel when the player is in the docking sled. 
·  Why did my player suddenly start freezing at the boot-up logo screen? 
·  Why isn't the headlight-sense dimmer working properly? 
·  Why does my player think it's at home when it's in the car? 
·  Why doesn't my player go into standby mode when I turn off the ignition? 
·  Why is there a 'thump' from my amplifiers when I turn off the ignition? 
·  Why doesn't my Rio Car work in my Mark 2 docking sled? 
·  Why is my docking connector loose? 
·  Why is my Mark 1 getting harder and harder to pull out of the sled? 
·  Why is my Mark 2 hard to pull out of the sled? 
·  Why is my warranty seal already broken? 
·  I get a 'hardware revision check failed' message when I try to upgrade! 
·  Why did ethernet and/or USB quit working after I upgraded the software? 
·  My tuner quit working after an upgrade! 
·  Why is the song count different when I shuffle? 
·  Why can't I figure out how to do searches on the player? 
·  I selected the correct title in a search, and pressed OK, but the song did not play. Why? 
·  Why does Emplode keep getting my tags wrong? 
·  Why can't I read the display in the daylight? 
·  Why am I having problems with my car alarm or my keyless entry system? 
·  My rotary knob is slipping on its shaft! 
·  What do the synchronization errors mean? 
·  The clock on my Mark 1 player does not work. 
·  The clock on my Mark 2 player does not work. 
·  The Mark (cancel) key on the Rio remote doesn't work all the time. 
·  Why is the Shuffle menu backwards? 
·  Why does my player say 'Waiting...' on the screen? 
·  Why does my player rattle when I shake it? 
·  I don't like seeing the circuitry when the sun shines on the player. 
·  I have database errors and all of my playlists disappeared! 
·  Why does Emplode say I have less disk space than I think I should have? 
·  Why does my player sound terribly distorted when I plug it into my home stereo? 
·  My remote control quit working! 
·  I have a Kenwood head unit, and its remote is controlling both players. 
·  Why doesn't Emplode work via USB on Windows? 
·  Why doesn't emplode work via ethernet on Windows XP? 
·  Emplode freezes up on 'Checking Disk Integrity'. 

·  I got an error message about 'e2fsck' at the shell prompt. What do I do to fix it?
 (Entry last updated on January 4th, 2010)

There are a few common errors you might see at the Linux shell prompt, usually when you are in the process of mounting the drives read-write to mess around with the files:

"EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended"

This means that on the next synch, your player will need to do its long "checking disk integrity" thing. It's nothing to worry about and you can safely ignore it. It will go away after the next synch.

"EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended"

This means that at some point in the past, you neglected to re-mount your drives as read-only before rebooting the player. Bad hacker, go to your room.

To prevent this error in the future, always remember to do ro and rom after doing rw and rwm. More details here.

This error can also be caused by rebooting the player during the middle of a synch operation, either on purpose or accidentally because of a crashed synch. The drives are mounted read-write during certain phases of the synch operation, and this error will happen if the player is rebooted during that time.

Another thing which might cause this error is trying to mount/unmount a partition, or perform an Emplode syncronization, while a third-party program is running off of that partition. When a program is active, the partition it's running from is locked and can't be unmounted. For example, if you use the Hijack @EXEC command to launch a program that's been copied to somewhere on the /drive0 partition (which is the same partition that contains the music), then you will be unable to perform a synch and will likely induce this problem. To work around this, use the @DC modifier so that you only run your programs when the player is in the car dock. Click here for more information about hijack commands.

To correct this error, make sure you're using the developer firmware on the player, use hyperterminal to get to a shell prompt with either a Q or a Ctrl-C command, then enter the following at the shell prompt:

ro
umount /dev/hda4
(Please note! The command is umount, not unmount.)
umount /dev/hdc4
(If you have only one hard disk, you may omit the lines that include /dev/hdc4.)
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile
sync

(and then reboot the player by pulling its power cord)

Answer yes to any questions it gives you. Please note that some of the commands above will be followed by a mind-bogglingly long pause as it scans the disk. The larger your disk drives, the longer the pause. Do not panic, it's not frozen, just wait it out.

Important: After performing the above procedure, make sure to fully reboot the player by pulling the power plug and re-inserting it. If you don't, data loss may occur if you do another "rw".


If you get any one or more of the following errors:
"EXT2-fs: ide0(3,4): couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features."
"fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda4"
"fsck.ext2: Filesystem revision too high while trying to open /dev/hda4"
"The filesystem revision is apparently too high for this version of e2fsck."

This is probably music partition corruption. It is can sometimes be caused by the player, Emplode, or Windows crashing during a synch operation. If the player's power was cycled before the player had a chance to mount its drives read-only again (perhaps an unavoidable situation depending on the circumstances), the music partition might have become corrupted.

Permanent partition corruption is very rare in this situation, as there are fail-safes built into the player software to prevent it. For instance, if Windows crashes during a synch, you should let the player just sit there for a couple minutes until the "Synchronising" message disappears from the screen, so that you know it's set the drives back to read-only, before pulling the power.

The player also contains backup partition tables that can be restored if this sort of thing happens. You can restore one of these backup partition tables with the following steps at the shell:

ro
rom
fdisk -l /dev/hda
swapon /swapfile
fsck.ext2 -fay -b 32768 /dev/hda4

At this point it will either give you the "Bad Magic Number" error again, or it will give you a lot of output indicating it's trying to fix the partitions. If it's successfully working on fixing the partitions, you'll see output like this:

Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes (there may be a very very long pause here.)
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Entry '16450' in /fids (129) has deleted/unused inode 13507. Clear? yes
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Block bitmap differences: (Lots of numbers may appear here.)
Free blocks count wrong for group #0 (277, counted=1).
Fix? yes
Free blocks count wrong for group #1 (5057, counted=0).
Fix? yes
Free blocks count wrong for group #3802 (698, counted=0).
Fix? yes
(etc...)
/dev/hda4: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/hda4: 17028/304448 files (14.4% non-contiguous), 35220991/38965657 blocks

If you get that ouput, great, then wait for it to finish the job so that it drops back to the shell prompt (it may take a very long time). Then skip the rest of the partition recovery commands listed below.

If you get another one of the "Bad magic number in super-block" errors instead, then try the next possible partition recovery command from the list below:

fsck -fay -b 24576 /dev/hda4
fsck -fay -b 24577 /dev/hda4
fsck -fay -b 98304 /dev/hda4
fsck -fay -b 98305 /dev/hda4

Try each one of those commands once until you get results. At any point that one of those commands succeeds instead of giving you a "Bad magic number in super-block" error, wait until the repair is complete and then do the following:

swapoff /swapfile
sync

Then reboot the player by pulling its power cord.

Important: After performing the above procedure, make sure to fully reboot the player by pulling the power plug and re-inserting it. If you don't, data loss may occur if you do another "rw".

If this procedure is complete and successful, after the player reboots, it might pause for a long time on "Building Music Databases". If that happens, you may have to rebuild the music databases by hand as described here. You may also need to redo the steps outlined in the first part of this section, under the heading "EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended", above.


·  My docking sled's top edge is not 'bent'. 
·  Why doesn't my power antenna go up and down at the right time? 
·  The upper-left corner of my screen is cut off. 
·  My config.ini file went all goofy on me, and I can't edit my favorite visuals any more! 
·  My buttons and/or knob are sticking. 
·  What does the battery icon mean? 
·  I just tried to edit one of the visuals, and now my player locks up! 
·  There are glowing red lines on my display! 
·  My display has become garbled or dim. 
·  My display is blank! 
·  Why does my Mk2 player have poor stereo separation? 
·  Why doesn't my player play very high frequencies? 
·  Why doesn't the car player put out as much bass as my CD player? 
·  How do I stop it from trying to play a bad track? 
·  My player takes a long time to boot and says it is Building Music Databases. 
·  Why does it say 'No hard disk found contact support'? 
·  Some wires have pulled out of my docking connector! 
·  My handle doesn't snap back into place as well as it used to. 
·  My handle sticks in the 'open' position. Can I fix it? 
·  There is a gap between the handle and the fascia. Can I fix it? 
·  What is the proper way to remove the display board and the main board? 
·  Why can't I use USB after installing or upgrading Emplode? 
·  Why is my Mark 1 having intermittent power failure problems? 
·  Why are there pops, clicks, screeches, and stutters when I play MP3s? 
·  Half of my display is blank! 
·  In DC mode, player responds extremly slowly to button presses, and music skips. 
·  My Mk2's volume knob is being jumpy! 
·  Why do I get an error message about reiserfs? 
·  Why did my player wake up in the car and start blasting music all by itself? 
·  Why does my player start doing things all by itself? 
·  Why do my remote and front panel buttons only work intermittently? 
·  Why won't the tuner scan for the next station? 
·  Why did the tuner change stations on me? 
·  Is there a way I can test the player's hard disk for sector errors? 
·  Why does it always say End of Playlist? 
·  Is there a master parts list for the car player? 
·  What do the ide_data_test messages mean? 
·  How do I fix the Daylight Savings Time dates on the player? 
·  There are vertical lines on my display! 


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