Problems with iPod

[Ed Smits]

It's an iPod Nano that worked fine with the previous kernel and app's.
I'm a newbie and so can't tell you exactly what I had before (it
worked, why would I record it<G>) - all I know was that it was running
2.6.17 and all upgrades were in place. When 2.6.18 came out I decided
to redo my partitions (bad initial planning) so saved /home to an
external drive, blew everything away and installed again, upgrading
straight to 2.6.18 from 2.6.15, installed Amerok and gtkpod etc, at
present the yum gui tells me I have no updates available.

If I run gtkpod, mount the iPod, and try to sync it I get the
following error message from gtkpod:

'/media/disk/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB' does not exist. Import aborted

It does exist...

If I run gtkpod with the iPod already mounted it fails immediately,
the only error is "segmentation fault"

as to which versions I have at present:

libgpod-0.3.0-2.2
gtkpod-0.99.4-1.lvn5
amarok-1.4.3-6.fc5

Where I got them - standard repositories I assume, I don't know enough
to be grabbing from funky ones. I assume the gtkpod was from Livna,
could that be a problem?

My message logs around that time show the following:

Oct 20 08:06:03 ca-esmits kernel: usb 1-6.2: USB disconnect, address 7
Oct 20 08:06:09 ca-esmits kernel: usb 1-6.2: new high speed USB device
using ehci_hcd and address 8
Oct 20 08:06:09 ca-esmits kernel: usb 1-6.2: configuration #1 chosen
from 2 choices
Oct 20 08:06:09 ca-esmits kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
Storage devices
Oct 20 08:06:10 ca-esmits kernel: usb 1-6.2: USB disconnect, address 8
Oct 20 08:06:19 ca-esmits kernel: usb 1-6.2: new high speed USB device
using ehci_hcd and address 9
Oct 20 08:06:19 ca-esmits kernel: usb 1-6.2: configuration #1 chosen
from 2 choices
Oct 20 08:06:19 ca-esmits kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
Storage devices
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel:   Vendor: Apple     Model: iPod
        Rev: 1.62
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
        ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel: SCSI device sdb: 3999743 512-byte
hdwr sectors (2048 MB)
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel: SCSI device sdb: 3999743 512-byte
hdwr sectors (2048 MB)
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel:  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
Oct 20 08:06:24 ca-esmits kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Oct 20 08:08:12 ca-esmits kernel: usb 1-6.2: USB disconnect, address 9
Oct 20 08:08:16 ca-esmits kernel: usb 1-6.2: new high speed USB device
using ehci_hcd and address 10
Oct 20 08:08:17 ca-esmits kernel: usb 1-6.2: configuration #1 chosen
from 2 choices
Oct 20 08:08:17 ca-esmits kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
Storage devices
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel:   Vendor: Apple     Model: iPod
        Rev: 1.62
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
        ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel: SCSI device sdb: 3999743 512-byte
hdwr sectors (2048 MB)
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel: SCSI device sdb: 3999743 512-byte
hdwr sectors (2048 MB)
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel:  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
Oct 20 08:08:22 ca-esmits kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Oct 20 08:09:18 ca-esmits gconfd (root-11527): starting (version
2.14.0), pid 11527 user 'root'
Oct 20 08:09:18 ca-esmits gconfd (root-11527): Resolved address
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only
configuration source at position 0

Thanks

ED

On 10/19/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Ed Smits wrote:
> > Running FC5, kernel 2.6.18, all other things work OK. Plug iPod in
> > as normal:
> >
> > 1) as soon as I mount it Amerok crashes, unmounting my other USB
> > drives along with it. The unmount "feature" has been reported to
> > Amerok - it automatically unmounts the USB drives whenever it shuts
> > down, either intentionally or by crashing.
> >
> > 2)  try to use GtkPod to manage the iPod - if the ipod is mounted it
> > crashes - segmentation fault, if I mount the iPod with GtkPod
> > running it doesn't see it. I did have to change the default location
> > in GtkPod from /mnt/ipod to /media/disk.
>
> What, if any, errors are there when gtkpod segfaults?
>
> > The same setup worked on my previous install with 2.6.17. I handled
> > my iPod through Amerock, worked like a charm. I'm a newbie so most
> > stuff is setup as default.
>
> More details.  You say a previous install, so more has changed than
> just the kernel then, correct?  If so, what was your previous install
> and what is your current install (versions of Fedora)?  What versions
> of amarok, gtkpod, and libgpod do you have?  Did you get them from
> Fedora (and Livna for gtkpod) or from another repository?
>
> (The version of libgpod included in Fedora is pretty ancient and many
> many bugs have been fixed in more recent versions.  That would be my
> first suspect.  I've been using libgpod and gtkpod from CVS forever
> now and it works splendidly.  The latest releases of gtkpod and libgpod
> are pretty recent, so they might be worth checking out.)
>
> Also, what model of ipod do you have?