Re: [Bug-gnupod] Re: problem with gnupod

[H. Langos]

Hi Adam,

As you already figured out, the trouble was caused by gnupod 
trying to find the devices serial number (aka fwid).
The problem is that gnupod used a rather crude way to look for
the device in /sys/block and ubuntu has recently made some big 
changes there. 

The problem you describe has been reported before:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnupod/2009-04/msg00003.html

It would be great if you could check out the current CVS version 
of gnupod to see if it works any better:
................
sudo su -
apt-get remove gnupod-tools
apt-get -y install cvs
apt-get -y install autoconf
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/gnupod co gnupod
cd gnupod
autoconf
./configure
make intall
................

cheers
-henrik


On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 02:26:41PM -0700, Adam Petcher wrote:
> 
> 
> I guess you can disregard the last message I sent.  I was able to get around 
> this problem by setting the serial number via --fwguid.
> 
> --- On Sun, 5/10/09, Adam Petcher <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > From: Adam Petcher <address@hidden>
> > Subject: problem with gnupod
> > To: address@hidden
> > Date: Sunday, May 10, 2009, 2:22 PM
> > I'm having some trouble getting gnupod to work.  The
> > problem is that any time mktunes, it hangs on
> > "Searching iPod via sysfs".  I've let it go
> > for a few hours and nothing happens, so I am assuming it
> > will hang forever.  I've tried restoring the iPod in
> > iTunes, and I even tried formatting the ipod and then
> > calling gnupod_INIT -- either way, it just hangs the first
> > time mktunes is called.  Here are the details:
> > 
> > gnupod 0.99.7
> > iPod Classic 80 GB
> > Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty)
> > 
> > I don't really know what other info would help.  The
> > problem comes up whether the database is empty, contains a
> > couple of songs, or contains my entire library.  Let me know
> > if there is any other info that will help.
> 
> 
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