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Ipod Nano 2G : Not working after upgrade

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Monkeytree:
Hello,

I had rockbox running on my nano 2g very well.
But then after upgrading its not working properly.
Here are the errors:
- Database is not ready not initialized
- can't open folders
- If i want to open something it says something like: "Cant open : /.rockbox/rocks/viewers/...."

Sometimes when I connect the Ipod to my Pc(ubuntu) it is a read-only filesystem.
At the moment it is r24079M-091219 but I have already tested the newest version with no success.

Sry for my bad english.

Thanks Monkeytree

epithetless:
This occurs with my new 8GB nano 2g as well (and has for the couple of weeks that I've owned it), so nano 2g support is definitely buggy at the moment, as least for certain devices. I'm hopeful that this patch, if completed and committed to SVN, will solve the bulk of our issues...but I haven't yet been able to set up a build environment to test it. I also experience "Panic" messages and data corruption on the device whenever I (safely) disconnect it from my Windows XP SP3 computer -- I'm not sure if that behavior is also addressed in the patch, or perhaps in this one...but, regardless, the 2nd-gen nano is currently bug central for some of us.

What build were you using prior to upgrading that worked fine on your nano?

AlexP:
From www.rockbox.org:


--- Quote ---Unstable ports

Rockbox runs on these players, but is incomplete, less usable or has problems that limit it to advanced users:

Apple: iPod Nano 2g
--- End quote ---

Now of course we want to fix these issues, but it is marked as unstable for a reason.  If you can identify the build when problems occur that previously were fine, then that would help the developers find the problem.

Monkeytree:

--- Quote from: epithetless on January 28, 2010, 10:44:29 PM ---What build were you using prior to upgrading that worked fine on your nano?

--- End quote ---

Sry but I don't know what build I was using. I think it was in September or November last year.
Is there a way to download old builds?? I've looked everywhere but found nothing.

Is it normal that the Ipod sometimes is a read-only filesystem?

Thanks

Monkeytree

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: epithetless on January 28, 2010, 10:44:29 PM ---I also experience "Panic" messages and data corruption on the device whenever I (safely) disconnect it from my Windows XP SP3 computer

--- End quote ---

I was speaking to TheSeven on IRC the other day about this specific issue...and it seems there are two ways to mitigate this. One is easy, the other not so much (unless you have a build environment set up already).

1: If you aren't too bothered by losing DirCache you can simple turn it off.

2: If you want to keep DirCache (and have no problems editing/compiling the Rockbox Source) you can change line 77 of "Root"/firmware/common in the rockbox source code from:

static long dircache_stack[(DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE + 0x900)/sizeof(long)];

to

static long dircache_stack[(DEFAULT_STACK_SIZE + 0x1900)/sizeof(long)];

Apparently a value smaller than 1900 can be specified, but this value is known to work.
I was having the "Safely Remove Hardware/Data Corruption" thing happen every other day and it was driving me mental!!! I can verify however that this fix works like a charm.

So, thanks TheSeven  ;)


[St.]

PS: Monkeytree,

I noticed that you have mentioned that your build revision is r24079M-091219, the "M" (as you may well know) means "Modified"....I'm not going to gripe about how your post should be in "Unsupported Builds" but I will however ask this:

"Have you verified that the problems you are experiencing still occur with a "clean" (unmodified) version of the latest build?"

You can find that here

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