Comment 15 for bug 382941

On Monday 12,October,2009 05:53 AM, Jan Michael Ibanez wrote:
> I too have this problem, but have been able to sort of work around it.
> This might give some clues to the podsleuth devs on why things are
> happening as they are. My suspicion is that there is some sort of race
> condition between podsleuth and devkit-disks.
>
> First, to be able to have podsleuth actually detect your iPod, you have
> to ensure that nautilus is killed. I was successful in doing so, since I
> run a modified GNOME 2 desktop (with awesome as my window manager). With
> nautilus killed, there is nothing to contact devkit-disks to mount the
> iPod as a drive.
>
> While nautilus is not running, plug in your iPod. Wait a minute. Run
> hal-device to verify that podsleuth has merged the necessary iPod
> properties. You can now run nautilus once more at this point.
>
> Mount your iPod by browsing to it from nautilus (or using palimpsest to
> mount). Run Banshee to confirm that it too sees the iPod properly.
>
> I'm thinking of playing around with a private build of podsleuth to try
> to whittle it down further.

Thanks for posting this. A long term solution would probably be to modify
podsleuth to use Devkit-Disks though. If you could come up with a patch for
that, it would be really awesome.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Contributing Developer