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FS#7642 - H10 20GB doesn't make it past the initial RockBox screen

Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by Ben Tobin (trebonius) - Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 17:10 GMT+2
Last edited by Nils Wallménius (nls) - Saturday, 20 October 2007, 10:09 GMT+2
Task Type Bugs
Category Applications
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Player Type iriver H10
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version Daily build (which?)
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Private No

Details

I installed today's build (r14428) on my H10 20GB, and it just hangs at the RockBox booting-up screen. No errors are displayed or anything. I tried resetting it several times, and I got the same behavior each time. I reverted back to my previous version (r14102) and everything was fine again.
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Closed by  Nils Wallménius (nls)
Saturday, 20 October 2007, 10:09 GMT+2
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Nils Wallménius (nls) - Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 17:58 GMT+2
Could you try some daily builds to narrow down when the problem was introduced?
Comment by Ben Tobin (trebonius) - Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 18:01 GMT+2
I did some experimenting, and the last version to work for me is 14288 (8/12). The problem seems to have been introduced in version 14307 (8/13).

In case it's helpful: Overwriting the .rockbox files was insufficient when downgrading from a non-working version to r14288. It would still hang at startup. I had to delete the .rockbox directory and restore a backup of a working version, then upgrade it to 14288.

Also, whenever I upgraded to a non-working version, I would get a "scanning" message on the screen briefly before it would hang. Subsequent boots would not display this message before hanging.
Comment by Nils Wallménius (nls) - Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 18:13 GMT+2
have you tried the hanging build with an entirely clean .rockbox dir?
Comment by Ben Tobin (trebonius) - Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 18:28 GMT+2
I have now. And it does indeed work if I start clean.
Comment by Nils Wallménius (nls) - Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 18:40 GMT+2
please report back if you find out what caused the problem, a combination of settings, corrupted database/playlist_control/nvram/config files, or whatever it might be.
Comment by Ben Tobin (trebonius) - Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 19:52 GMT+2
It seems to be related to this setting: "start in screen: previous"

The previous screen in question was the playing screen. However, even setting it to "start in screen: wps" works fine. It just says "Nothing to resume". It also needs me to initialize the database, so maybe that's involved somehow.

I performed the following steps:
* deleted .rockbox/
* restored .rockbox/ from old working backup. (r14102)
* unzipped latest build over .rockbox/
* edited config.cfg to change "start in screen:" from "previous" to "wps"
* started the player. Boots successfully. Says "Nothing to resume".
* turned player off
* edited config.cfg and set "start in screen:" back to "previous"
* started the player. Boots successfully.

Everything seems to work fine from this point on. Maybe the method of storing the "previous" state changed?
Comment by Ben Tobin (trebonius) - Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 19:54 GMT+2
Oops. Between the 3rd and 4th steps, insert:
* Tried to start player. Froze on RockBox splash screen.
Comment by Alex Vanderpol (karashata) - Saturday, 20 October 2007, 03:20 GMT+2
I think this task can be closed, this problem has been fixed a while ago, the builds had been a little "flaky" a while back (some worked but many would spontaneously crash or fail to boot), but recent builds work fine.

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