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3.8 update broken on 5th gen ipod video
Chauncellor:
Hi, there, been using rockbox for a long while and it's always been smooth. Since I upgraded to 3.8, however, it's been a mess on my ipod. I've been having random freezes and errors. For instance, 9/10 times I boot I am presented with the error:
--- Code: ---Data abort at 00000008 (0)
--- End code ---
and last night was presented with an error message along the lines of:
--- Code: ---cannot find linux.bin
--- End code ---
I have used ipodpatcher to remove the bootloader, deleted the .rockbox directory and started again with the latest version of the rockbox installer for 64-bit linux. The ipod worked fine last night but the errors flared up again. First the RB splash will appear, then "Scanning Disk" will appear for a few seconds before shooting the Data Abort error again.
I have booted into the diagnostics utility for the ipod and viewed the SMART data:
--- Code: ---Retracts:64
Reallocs:0
Pending sectors:0
PowerOn Hours:1184
Start/Stops:9428
--- End code ---
I still have not attempted downgrade but will try going back to 3.7 soon. I have not tried reformatting as I don't have direct access to a windows machine/itunes and libparted cannot handle the cylinder size that an ipod has.
Are these the signs of a failing HDD? I can boot into the Apple firmware fine but I can't do anything with it as I don't have any sync set up.
Also, if these are bugs with 3.8 how would I go about effectively reporting them? All I have are some error messages.
Thank you.
saratoga:
I would check the file system for errors and then update to the current build.
torne:
--- Quote from: Chauncellor on March 28, 2011, 01:25:51 PM ---and last night was presented with an error message along the lines of:
--- Code: ---cannot find linux.bin
--- End code ---
--- End quote ---
This one means you pressed play while the player was booting, so the bootloader tried to boot ipodlinux. That's not a bug. ;)
Chauncellor:
Found a Windows machine and reformatted (there goes 80 gigs I have to resync once this is done...).
I'm going to hold off on the going to unstable builds. I'm very selective of what I want to break/test and my music player is not one of them. If anything I will downgrade. So far the install has been working okay (synced only 500 MB of music/stuff I need) and I'll report back if it was indeed file system corruption.
e2fsck kept coming up with errors but it's always seemed to be unreliable with the ipod. I used chkdsk with windows and it did report a problem with the first, small partition. Gave nothing of value telling me what was wrong and it didn't fix it, but I went ahead and just started from scratch.
Thanks for the help.
Post Merge: March 28, 2011, 05:17:46 PM
--- Quote from: torne on March 28, 2011, 04:33:12 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chauncellor on March 28, 2011, 01:25:51 PM ---and last night was presented with an error message along the lines of:
--- Code: ---cannot find linux.bin
--- End code ---
--- End quote ---
This one means you pressed play while the player was booting, so the bootloader tried to boot ipodlinux. That's not a bug. ;)
--- End quote ---
Ah, yes, the arbitrary commands that can be issued to these devices on bootup are infinite, it seems.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: Chauncellor on March 28, 2011, 05:16:47 PM ---I'm going to hold off on the going to unstable builds. I'm very selective of what I want to break/test and my music player is not one of them. If anything I will downgrade. So far the install has been working okay (synced only 500 MB of music/stuff I need) and I'll report back if it was indeed file system corruption.
--- End quote ---
The current build is probably more stable then the release, but going back to 3.7.1 might work well enough too.
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