Re: Problems with iPod

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Ed Smits wrote:
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>)

I can understand that. :)

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"

Odd that it worked fine before with the same versions of gtkpod and
libgpod. I don't think any kernel changes would have cause this, but
it's possible. If you wanted to test that you could install a 2.6.17
kernel package and try gtkpod then.

I think Jamie was onto something when he asked if iTunes has updated
your ipod firmware recently. Older versions of libgpod had problems
with a zero length sysinfo file on the ipod. The latest version
handles is AFAIK.

as to which versions I have at present:

libgpod-0.3.0-2.2
gtkpod-0.99.4-1.lvn5

The latest stable releases are:

libgpod-0.4.0
gtkpod-0.99.8

I've been using the latest libgpod/gtkpod with my 4th and 5th gen
ipods for ages and they've worked very well together. (And, oddly, I
had a problem unmounting/ejecting my 5th gen ipod under all the FC5
kernels up until 2.6.18.)

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?

I don't think so, the folks at Livna do a good job at packaging
things. But the versions are badly outdated. libgpod is in core,
amarok is in extras, and gtkpod is from livna. I don't know what it
would take to get libgpod updated in core. It appears that the same
ancient version is included in FC6 as well. :(

If Jamie's suggestion about the sysinfo file doesn't help and you try
a 2.6.17 kernel and find it's still not working, I'd suggest trying to
update libgpod/gtkpod. That's not a fun thing if you've never done
it, but it's very good to know how to do. I can send you rpm spec
files for those if you want to build packages.

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