Re: [Bug-gnupod] gnupod problem

[Adrian Ulrich]

Hi,


> I have been trying to use GNUpod with an HFS+ formated late 2004 20G
> iPod that I have not converted to fat32 since I do occasionally use a
> mac.  I am running Debian sarge (kernel 2.4.26) with the hfsplus
> utilities.  My method of mounting the ipod looks something like this:

Your problem looks like the hfsplus utilities failed.
I don't know if the hfsplus utilies are developed anymore.

I'd recommend you to:
 a) Reformat the iPod to fat32 (No problems with Linux / OSX)
 b) Using the hfs+ kernel driver. (After recreating the HFS+ FS.. yours
is broken)  
 Kernel Patch is aviable from here:
   http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/
  (I think it's included in recent 2.6 kernels.)


> 
> There was also a problem with the gnuPodDB being incomplete, the
> closing</file> and </gnupod> not being written.  This was causing the
> gnupod_search to report that there were missing files.

I think it messed up the Filesystem really bad and trashed the
GNUtunesDB file :-/


> I don't know if it's related or not, but I am getting a debug message
> whenever I use gnupod_search that says immediately after invocation:

This is an unrelated problem.

You are using a Prerelease of GNUpod with debug stuff enabled
btw: Looks like it isn't installed correct on your system...
Did you install it using a .tgz from me or did you install it using
apt-get ?

Upgrading to 0.95 should help:
 http://blinkenlights.ch/gnupod-dist/stable/gnupod-0.95.tgz



> ps. is there a reason that you did not write a script to copy song off
> of the ipod?  I was going to do this myself, but was just curious.

I never needed to copy songs from the iPod to my PC, that's why i didn't
write a script for this ;)


bye

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