Re: Problems with iPod

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@xxxxxxxxx> 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?

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