ipod

[peter lesterhuis]

>
> I followed the thread about the useability of ipods with linux. I
> > just bought an ipod (nano 3rd gen, 4 Gb) for my daughter's birthday.
> > When I connected the ipod to my box the filesystem of the hard disk
> > was not recognized. I  rebooted into WinXP, which configured the
> > filesystem into vfat. Back to fedora8 the ipod was being recognized:
> > an icon appeared on the desktop, the mountpoint seemed to be
> > /media/IPOD.  The problem is that I can't get gtkpod to load the
> > ipod. When I start gtkpod this message pops up:
> >
> > Error initialising iPod: Couldn't find the iPod firewire ID
> > Newly mounted iPod at '/media/IPOD' could not be loaded into gtkpod.
> >
> > The ipod is connected via usb, not firewire. Included with the ipod
> > was only a cable with a usb-plug.  How can I get gtkpod to work,
> > using this connection?  I tried amarok, but here the same problem.
>   
>
> The underlying problem is that libgpod (the library both amarok and
> gtkpod use to read and write the ipod's database) can't seem to get
> the (strangely named) FireWireGUID for the ipod.  This is needed to
> properly write the database for all the newer ipods (nano video,
> classic, touch, and iphone).
>
> There is a tool in libgpod that ideally will run when the ipod is
> connected and fetch this info from the ipod so that amarok, gtkpod,
> etc, can properly write the db.  For some reason, that seems to not
> have worked in your case.  If there's a reproducible bug there, I'd
> love to help get it fixed.
>
> As Richard suggested, it might be interesting to run  "tailf
> /var/log/messages" and then plug the ipod in, to see if there are any
> errors.
>
> The other thing to try is to run ipod-read-sysinfo-extended.  The
> arguments for the program are <dev> <mountpoint>.  The device will be
> something like /dev/sdb.  You can look at the output of dmesg|tail
> after you've plugged your ipod in to see what device name it has.  You
> do want to use the raw device like sdb rather than sdb1 or sdb2, etc.
> The mountpoint would be /media/IPOD in your case.  So the command
> might be:
>
> ipod-read-sysinfo-extended /dev/sdb /media/IPOD
>
> That will attempt to read the FireWireGUID from the ipod and save it
> as a file on the ipod so that amarok, gtkpod, and other libgpod using
> apps can get at it easily.  If you get any errors running that, please
> post them.
>
>   
Thanks for your answer.
This is the output of /var/log/messages after plugging in the ipod:
tail -f /var/log/messages
Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: create_tcp_client:321: hostname 
lookup failed: Operation not permitted
Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: lookup_mount: exports lookup 
failed for iTunes_Control
Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): key 
"iPod_Control" not found in map
Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): key 
"iTunes" not found in map
Jan 13 15:32:05 cello automount[2298]: lookup_mount: lookup(file): key 
"iTunes_Control" not found in map
Jan 13 16:38:21 cello kernel: drivers/input/misc/ati_remote.c: Weird 
data, len=5 20 d5 54 bd 4e 00 ...
Jan 13 16:58:26 cello kernel: ati_remote 4-2:1.0: Unknown input from 
channel 0x08: data 4d,54
Jan 13 17:10:41 cello kernel: ati_remote 4-2:1.0: Unknown input from 
channel 0x09: data 4e,54
Jan 13 17:11:44 cello yum: Updated: k9copy - 1.2.2-1.lvn8.i386
Jan 13 17:12:37 cello kernel: drivers/input/misc/ati_remote.c: Weird 
data, len=5 20 d5 d4 e5 49 00 ...
Jan 13 17:14:22 cello kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using 
ehci_hcd and address 7
Jan 13 17:14:22 cello kernel: usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 2 
choices
Jan 13 17:14:22 cello kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Apple    
iPod             1.62 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] 950209 4096-byte 
hardware sectors (3892 MB)
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: 
write through
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] 950209 4096-byte 
hardware sectors (3892 MB)
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: 
write through
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel:  sdg: sdg1
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan 13 17:14:27 cello kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
Jan 13 17:14:28 cello gnome-keyring-daemon[2864]: adding removable 
location: volume_uuid_3141_5926 at /media/IPOD
Jan 13 17:14:28 cello hald: mounted /dev/sdg1 on behalf of uid 500

After the command "ipod-read-sysinfo-extended /dev/sdg /media/IPOD" 
there is this error:
"Couldn't read xml sysinfo from /dev/sdg"

 From the /var/log/messages I understand that /dev/sdg is the one I 
need, right?
Peter