Re: [Banshee-List] Help with iPod setup

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

Okay, I couldn't resist. Here's the "official" iPod troubleshooting page
for Banshee:

http://banshee-project.org/Troubleshooting/iPod

--Aaron


On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 13:33 -0500, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> Banshee's iPod support is based on two subprojects directly related to
> Banshee. libipoddevice is a library for providing basic control and
> metadata about an iPod. It also ships with a very small command line
> utility called "ipod". You can use this to possibly find where the break
> in the chain is, and to rule out anything wrong at the Banshee level.
> 
> 1. Unplug your iPod
> 2. Open a terminal and run "ipod"
> 
> It should then wait, saying "Listening for iPod-specific HAL events..."
> 
> 3. Plugin iPod and wait, maybe up to a minute. Older udev can be pretty
> slow, and the thing has to get mounted and the file system has to be
> poked, etc. (however, this whole process only takes about 10 seconds on
> my system).
> 
> You should see a bunch of iPod properties scroll by at some point after
> plugging the device in. If not, you probably have a udev or HAL problem.
> 
> 4. Try "ipod --list" ... that will confirm nothing is already connected
> to the system.
> 
> 5. Run "hal-device-manager" and scroll through the device tree on the
> left to see if there are any nodes similar to the attached screenshot. 
> 
> If you have no success with those five things above, the problem is not
> with libipoddevice or Banshee, rather something lower in your Gentoo
> stack, which is usually the case. 
> 
> One possible thing:
> 
> You need Gnome Volume Manager (g-v-m) to actually mount the iPod. That's
> the point of g-v-m: it listens to HAL for new devices to mount. If it is
> not running, you have to manually manage mounting devices. We could add
> some kind of mount policy directly in libipoddevice, but it would not
> make much sense. So the whole problem may just be that it's not mounted.
> You can look through the advanced properties in the hal-device-manager
> tree to find the device node (or look through dmesg) and mount based on
> that.
> 
> Additionally mounting is best done through pmount/pmount-hal/pumount. I
> strongly recommend installing pmount if it is available in Gentoo. g-v-m
> will use pmount to do the mounting if it is installed.
> 
> Here's a little chart of the layers:
> 
> 
>   Banshee
>      |
>  ipod-sharp
>      |
> libipoddevice
>      |
>     HAL --- G-V-M (pmount-hal/pumount)
>      | \ 
>      |  D-Bus
>      |
> udev/hotplug
>      |
>    kernel
>   
> 
> My best guess is you've got a break with HAL/g-v-m. Also, I think I will
> turn this mail into a troubleshooting page on the Wiki. It's a fairly
> common problem and I have been meaning to do that for a while.
> 
> Best,
> Aaron
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 06:59 -0600, Russ Brown wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I came across Banshee today when I noticed it in Portage for the first  
> > time. Basically I've been looking for an application like this for some  
> > time, so I'm very excited about having found it.
> > 
> > The ebuild had some dependancy bugs, but I got around them and finally got  
> > Banshee installed and running fine as a music player.
> > 
> > I'm very impressed. I can see this this is going to turn into an  
> > application I use every day. It's missing a few functions that I would  
> > like such as smart playlists, but having looked around a bit I see that  
> > these things are either planned or in progress, so I'm not worried about  
> > the project's future.
> > 
> > The problem that I'm having is that I simply can't seem to get my ipod  
> > working with it. I'm not sure where the problem is: it could be Banshee or  
> > one of the subprojects, HAL, DBUS or even udev. I'm very technically  
> > minded, but at this point I'm out of ideas, and so would appreciate any  
> > pointers that anybody might have that might give me a clue as to what to  
> > try next.
> > 
> > Some information:
> > 
> > Versions:
> > 
> > Banshee: 0.10
> > HAL: 0.5.5.1
> > DBUS: DBUS 0.50 (gentoo package 0.50-r1)
> > udev: 071
> > 
> > I haven't configured either HAL or DBUS whatsoever (I've not seen any  
> > documentation telling me to do so) so that could be one simple explanation  
> > for this.
> > 
> > I can't for the life of me figure out how to get either HAL or DBUS to log  
> > anything meaningful to the error logs, so I can't post any such  
> > information. However, I have discovered the utility 'lshal', which when  
> > run first outputs the following error message a number of times
> > 
> > 8184: arguments to dbus_move_error() were incorrect, assertion "(dest) ==  
> > NULL || !dbus_error_is_set ((dest))" failed in file dbus-errors.c line 243.
> > This is normally a bug in some application using the D-BUS library.
> > 
> > This is followed by a comprehensive list of 91 devices that does not  
> > appear to include my ipod...
> > 
> > Another potentially related bit of information. In the past, plugging in  
> > my ipod would normally result in a short message in the dmesg output  
> > regarding a new USB device. Lately, I seem to get this instead:
> > 
> >      ACPI-0292: *** Error: Looking up [PBST] in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> >      ACPI-0508: *** Error: Method execution failed  
> > [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BAT1._BST] (Node c17268e0), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> > 
> > Again, could be unrelated but at this point I'm willing to clutch at  
> > straws...
> > 
> > Thanks for reading. If anyone has any tips whatsoever I'd be extremely  
> > grateful.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
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