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ipod not connecting on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10
I have Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146 (20090616030052) from the ubuntu-mozilla-daily ppa on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic, 64-bit) and I've installed the ipod add-on to use my 2g nano as I used to on Jaunty. When I plug the ipod in, it's mounted correctly in nautilus and found by Rhythmbox but never shows up on the left pane in Songbird, as if the ipod add-on is not installed.
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I've had, I believe, the same problem. My workaround is to plug in the iPod, logout, login, and bring up Songbird again. So, no terminal commands, but forces you to logout.
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Inappropriate?I just figured out a work around of sorts.
It mainly involves using the terminal to unmount and remount the device to another directory. I believe the problems we are having is due to the migration from udev to devkit in ubuntu karmic.
For example your ipod is the block device /dev/sdb1 so I would do the following.
$ sudo -i (this drops you into a root shell)
# mkdir /mnt/ipod (you can use any directory really but this is easy to remember.)
# mount -t vfat -o rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8=1,dmask=0077,flush /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ipod (this mounts a vfat filesystem on device /dev/sdb1 to directory /mnt/ipod owned by the user and group who's ID number is 1000, utf8 support is enabled and all changes are written to disk immediately. Substitute 1000 for the UID and GID of your user and the group your user is in)
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That sure does mount it, but doesn't make it show up on Songbird for me. -
Make sure you have the ipod extension installed in songbird
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Inappropriate?Seems to work - though inelegant. Will anyone be working on this for a better solution?
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Inappropriate?I've had, I believe, the same problem. My workaround is to plug in the iPod, logout, login, and bring up Songbird again. So, no terminal commands, but forces you to logout.
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If you don't want to logout and back in again, you could just reload the hald service, "sudo hald reload". For now, I'm going to add the hald service to sudo with no password, then create a script to first reload the hald service then fire up songbird.
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Reloading the hald doesn't work for me: the ipod isn't visible after
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I was going to repost, you need to kill hald. So with visudo, add nopasswd for /usr/bin/killall then in the songbird executable add "sudo killall hald" above the first things that aren't comments in that file, this way when you start songbird, it will restart hald (spawn). I tried this, works like a charm. What's pissed me off is the cover art barely works, which is why i moved away from rhythmbox in the first place. But songbird wins out cause of all the other cool things in it!
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Unmounting and remounting does the job for me. The problem here is, that when the ipod is plugged in for some strange reason it is mounted read only (you can check this by trying to create or delete a folder on your ipod). If you right click on your ipod and select unmount and then again mount it by clicking on the device in nautilus it gets mounted with write-access and Songbird can see your device.
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Inappropriate?Don Owen's solution worked for me. It's a bummer having to log in and out but takes about 3-4 seconds tops.
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Inappropriate?Both Banshee and Songbird are plagued by this problem. Updates to the iPod plugins very soon is in order!
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Inappropriate?I also have this problem but the above advice didn't help. Major issue for me, hope it gets fixed soon.
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Follow my advice above. to rule out something you might be doing wrong with visudo, kill hald with sudo, "sudo killall hald" then plugin your ipod then fire up songbird, make sure you have the ipod extension installed in songbird!
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Inappropriate?As peter.cybersource commented, running "sudo hald reload" and restarting Songbird resolved the issue for me.
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Inappropriate?Does not work for me.
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Inappropriate?Simple solution: If you plug in your ipod you see the ipod on your desktop. So just right click on your ipod and select unmount (hope it's named like this, as I'm using the german version) Don't select eject!. Then go to Places and your iPod should be in the list - just click on it to remount it. That's it.
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Try using this method. It seems I only had to do it once. When I plugged in my iPod nano again I did not have to unmount and mount.
