Comment 8 for bug 382941

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Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote : Re: [Bug 382941] Re: iPod not recognized by podsleuth

* Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden>:
> It's org.freedesktop.Hal, and Banshee depends on HAL, so it can't have been removed from your system as long as Banshee remains installed:
> $ aptitude why hal
> i banshee Depends hal
>
> Could you check if HAL is running? (run `service hal status` in a
> terminal to check)

$ service hal status
hal start/running, process 8395

> If it isn't, start it (`service hal start`) and see if your problem
> still persists. If it does, please re-run `podsleuth
> --rescan --debug` and attach its output here.
$ podsleuth --rescan
No iPods were found in the HAL device tree

$ sudo podsleuth --rescan
[sudo] password for myuser:
No iPods were found in the HAL device tree

(that is with with podsleuth 0.6.4-2ubuntu1)

$ podsleuth --rescan --debug
No iPods were found in the HAL device tree

$ sudo podsleuth --rescan --debug
No iPods were found in the HAL device tree

> If possible, please test if the issue also occurs in podsleuth 0.6.5-1,
> found here: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/podsleuth/download

Tried that, 100% identical results.

$ lshal|grep -i ipod
  info.product = 'iPod' (string)
  usb_device.product = 'iPod' (string)
  scsi.model = 'iPod' (string)
  udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Apple_iPod_000A27001E2B4C61_0_0'
  block.storage_device =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Apple_iPod_000A27001E2B4C61_0_0'
 (string)
   info.product = 'iPod' (string)
     info.udi =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Apple_iPod_000A27001E2B4C61_0_0'
 (string)
   portable_audio_player.access_method.protocols = {'storage', 'ipod'}
(string list)
  portable_audio_player.storage_device =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Apple_iPod_000A27001E2B4C61_0_0'
 (string)
   storage.model = 'iPod' (string)
     storage.serial = 'Apple_iPod_000A27001E2B4C61-0:0' (string)
       block.storage_device =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Apple_iPod_000A27001E2B4C61_0_0'
 (string)
   info.parent =
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_Apple_iPod_000A27001E2B4C61_0_0'
 (string)
   info.product = 'IPOD' (string)
     volume.label = 'IPOD' (string)

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