Amarok doesn't reconigze my Ipod

Well, I lack an iPod to check, but perhaps I can help you find the mountpoint to enter. Go into a terminal and type mount to get a list of all devices mounted. As an example, here are a couple of the entries I get:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,utf8,shortname=winnt,uid=500)
The first is the SSD, and it is mounted to / , which is the root directory (kind of obvious, really). The 2nd is a memory card, and is mounted to /media/disk. If I opened the file manager and navigated to that point, I would see my memory card's contents. So, hopefully you'll see something that twigs to being the ipod, and you enter the bit after "on" into Amarok.

 

Cheers for trying to help markh - i appreciate it!
Here's what i get from typing mount in terminal (with ipod plugged in).

[user@localhost ~]$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /mnt/home type aufs (rw,si=f7b84cc0,xino=/home/user/.aufs.xino,create=mfs,dirs=/home/user=rw)
[user@localhost ~]$

Doesn't say anything about ipod?

Regards

Karl

 

Afraid not - those are the standard entries I get too. So it appears that the issue is more fundamental than Amarok - it isn't getting mounted by the system.

viewtopic.php?f=39&t=4931 describes a method to fix mounting problems after the "10 steps..." desktop mod, but as your USB stick worked, it seems not to be automount that is broken. Silly question - are you sure your usb-to-ipod works? Have you tried it in something else?

I think that your best bet may be to post a fresh topic, describing what you've tried, and hopefully someone will have a look (Having a whole new problem at the end of this thread isn't going to be as visible as it's own thread).

 

I don't have experience with the Zen Stone Plus. However, if it is mounting as a drive, it means that the device is in ums/msc (mass storage class) mode. You have to switch it to mtp mode.

 

USB to ipod works ok - tried it on my other laptop, also the ipod does 'wake-up' - as in beep and start charging when plugged in to the Acer.

Many thanks for trying to help markh!!

Regards

Karl

 

Well try using /media/ipod as the mount point. It has to be mounted somewhere and that is as good a place as any.

Cheers.

 

Cheers rbil - but that doesn't work either. Surely the ipod should show up in terminal by typing mount? but doesn't.
Don't know where i'm going wrong.

Karl

 

Plug the iPod in and post the output of the command:

Code:

mount

 

He's already done that. See the top of the page.

Cheers.

 

I don't use Amarok on my Acer, but do have it installed on my main Ubuntu box. I dug out my OLD ipod to test it here. On this system, when I plugged in the ipod it automounted to /media/IPOD. Yep, that's all uppercase. It automatically created the mount point, btw.

On the Ubuntu box, an icon appeared on the desktop automatically when I plugged the ipod in. I really don't know much about ipods and haven't played with mine for a long time. But I do recall that they came originally with an Apple filesystem on them and one had to intentionally change to a FAT32 system. Is it possible that this is the problem why it isn't mounting? I guess I can at least try plugging it into the Linpus box and see what happens if anything. Will let you know. I'm not going to install Amarok on the Linpus box, however, so that is far as I can test.

OK, plugged it into my Linpus box. IPOD - File Manager popped up. Error box: Failed to mount ..... volume_part1_size.... partition.

mount command reveals:

/dev/sdb2 on /media/IPOD type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal....)

No problem unmounting it.

Of course the first partition on the ipod is some weird Apple concoction. But the second partition, which indeed did mount, is FAT32.

Doing a search for installed files related to "ipod" on my Ubuntu box reveals the following packages installed:

amarok
libgpod2

I see that with Linpus repos, libgpod is available. But that isn't installed on my Linpus system and the thing still mounts.

That's all the info I can come up with. I have to assume that in the OP's case, something is either broken in hald OR it's a question of how the data partition on his ipod is formatted.


Cheers.

 

Oops, didn't read the whole thread. :-(

To the OP: Plug the iPod in and post the output of:

Code:

fdisk -l

 

Yeh, that was going to be my next suggestion. Beat me to it.

Cheers.

 

To the OP: Plug the iPod in and post the output of:

Code:

fdisk -l

[/quote]

Not much happens...

[user@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l
[user@localhost ~]$

Regards.. Karl

 

Hum, something very strange is going on here. "fdisk -l" shows the info of all drives and partitions on these drives whether mounted or unmounted. For example, this is the output on my AA1:

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x537c5b79

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       14462   116165983+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2           14463       14593     1052257+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 2045 MB, 2045247488 bytes
47 heads, 46 sectors/track, 1847 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2162 * 512 = 1106944 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk0p1               1        1848     1997188+   6  FAT16

Can you try it again?

 

Tried it again.. the same.

[user@localhost ~]$ fdisk -l
[user@localhost ~]$

What does that mean?

However.. just plugged in a year old ipod shuffle and that mounted straight away.
Why would my ipod touch not mount then?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Karl

 

This is really strange, can you try doing:

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

instead.

 

Usually answer concerning Apple hardware- lock down. Google is your friend, it took me less than 5 secs. to find the answer. Please read this thread on how to do it.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=381860

 

This is really strange, can you try doing:

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

instead.[/quote]

Yep cause i can..

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x537c5b79

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14462 116165983+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14463 14593 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
[user@localhost ~]$

Usually answer concerning Apple hardware- lock down. Google is your friend, it took me less than 5 secs. to find the answer. Please read this thread on how to do it.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=381860

Will have a read.. many thanks again to all

Karl