On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 12:14 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:51 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > I made sure gnome-volume-manager, dbus and hal are installed. But when > > I launch gtkpod I get: > > > > '/media/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB' does not exist. Import > > aborted. > > > > In fact /media/ipod does not exist. If I create it and mount the thing > > manually I get permissions errors. > > > > How is this supposed to work? Is gnome-volume-manager supposed to > > create the /media/ipod directory? Should it already exist? What are > > the correct permissions? > > lee, make sure you turn off journalling on the ipod first. you'll need a > mac os x system, and use the diskutil(1) tool. linux will only mount the > ipod as a read-only FS if journalling is enabled, because the current > linux support for journalling on HFS+ is not believed to be robust > enough. It's a Windows formatted ipod - the first partition I can't mount, the seconds seems to have the music on it and is a vfat FS. It does work if I mount it by hand from a terminal so this seems to be a Gnome issue. Thanks, Lee
