Hi,
This may be a bit outdated, but I am now reviewing old messages 
of the list which I could not reply in due time...

2006-12-08: Bob Copeland dixit:
> > [...] I had what I assumed to be corrupt mp3 files on my
> > Karma (or a potentially bad hard drive). So I deleted all
> > playlists and files off of my Karma through it's user
> > interface. Now, when I mount my Karma's partitions, the fids0
> > directory appears completely empty, and I am unable to use
> > riocp or lkarmafs.
> 
> There was a bug at one time (maybe it never got fixed), that an
> empty database caused everything to break. [...]

Well, it is not really a bug.  If an empty (0 bytes) file exists
as .../var/smalldb, then everything seems to work as expected.  
Of course, you get some warnings/errors, but that's O.K.  If you
upload a file (using e.g., riocp, then smalldb gets populated
and, from this point on, everythink works as usual.

The problem comes if no .../var/smalld exists, because its
existance is checked as the ultimate guarantee that the given or
discovered mount point is really a RK disk.  If it is not found, 
the "connection" is refused and everything else is aborted.

So, all you need is to just mount the RK at some RK-MOUNT-POINT
and then "touch $RK-MOUNT-POINT/var/smalldb".  May be an option
could be added to riocp to make this empty smalldb upon demand.

Best,
EV.

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