banshee doesn't detect ipod (connecting to dbus problems)

[wo7ke]

Hi there,

recently installed Banshee (0.10.10) with following line:

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USE="aac doc daap ipod flac mad njb vorbis mp3" emerge banshee

output of /etc/portage/package.keywords:

media-sound/banshee ~amd64
media-libs/gst-plugins-good ~amd64
media-libs/gst-plugins-base ~amd64
media-libs/gstreamer ~amd64
dev-dotnet/gconf-sharp ~amd64
dev-dotnet/glade-sharp ~amd64
dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp ~amd64
dev-dotnet/gnome-sharp ~amd64
dev-dotnet/art-sharp ~amd64
dev-dotnet/gnomevfs-sharp ~amd64
media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac ~amd64
media-plugins/gst-plugins-gconf ~amd64
media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly ~amd64
media-plugins/gst-plugins-lame ~amd64
media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad ~amd64
media-libs/libipoddevice ~amd64
dev-dotnet/ipod-sharp ~amd64
dev-dotnet/njb-sharp ~amd64
media-plugins/gst-plugins-faac ~amd64
net-dns/avahi ~amd64
media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad ~amd64
/etc/portage/package.keywords lines 1-26/26 (END)

Output of ipod --list:

Path Info
Device Path: /dev/sda3
Mount Point: /media/ipod
Control Path: /media/ipod/iPod_Control/
HAL ID: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_952B319BC61D4616
Device Info
Model Number: MA099
Device Model: Nano (Black)
iPod Generation: Fifth (5)
Adv. Capacity: 2 GB
Is New: YES
Writeable: NO
Serial Number: YM620T36TJT
Firmware Version: 5.1.1
Volume Info
Volume Size: 1957616640
Volume Used: 466598912
Available 1491017728
UUID: 952B319BC61D4616
Label black_spot
User-Provided Info
Device Name: (null)
User Name: (null)
Host Name: (null)
Supported Artwork Formats
Small Cover: 42x42
Large Cover: 100x100
Large Photo: 42x37
Full iPod Screen Photo: 176x132

But although everything seems to be right, banshee still resists to detect the ipod. There is one interesting message in the log:

Could not connect to D-Bus: D-Bus support will be disabled for this instance: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

[pussi]

Do you have dbus running (even though I'm not sure if it's required to use ipod with banshee)?

What's the output of "ps -A|grep dbus"?

[sog]

i've got the same problem as wo7ke. i started here (http://patches.ximian.com/Troubleshooting/iPod), but my iPod passes all those tests just fine.

i have two nodes in hal-device-manager as mentioned, ipod --list gives me the following:

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glibtop: This machine has 1 CPUs, 1 are being monitored.
Path Info
   Device Path:      /dev/sda2
   Mount Point:      /media/SOGPOD II
   Control Path:     /media/SOGPOD II/iPod_Control/
   HAL ID:           /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_E265_5E6A
Device Info
   Model Number:     PA146
   Device Model:     Video (Black)
   iPod Generation:  Fifth (5)
   Adv. Capacity:    30 GB
   Is New:           YES
   Writeable:        YES
   Serial Number:    JQ5507TVTXM
   Firmware Version: 6.1
Volume Info
   Volume Size:      29923568640
   Volume Used:      10727365632
   Available         19196203008
   UUID:             E265-5E6A
   Label             SOGPOD II
User-Provided Info
   Device Name:      (null)
   User Name:        (null)
   Host Name:        (null)
Supported Artwork Formats
   Small Cover:            100x100
   Large Cover:            200x200
   Small Photo:            50x41
   Large Photo:            130x88
   Full iPod Screen Photo: 320x240
   Full TV Screen Photo:   720x480

banshee was (in theory) installed w/ ipod support:

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These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/banshee-0.10.10-r3  USE="ipod mad vorbis -aac -daap -debug -doc -flac -njb" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]

dmesg is giving me some sort of SCSI I/O error, but the device is mounted and i can cut and paste from the ipod filesystem.

but banshee doesn't show the device as being present in any form. any thoughts?

[sog]

think i've figured it out. temporarily giving up on Banshee, i installed gtkpod and had it try to read my ipod database - it failed, because it was looking at /mnt/ipod rather than /dev/sda2 where it was. after doing a

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mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod

and reloading Banshee, i can now see my ipod. sweetness!

[wo7ke]

@sog:

You solved the problem , just by changing the mount point ? This did not work for me out, unfortunately.[/quote]

Did you also have the problems with the dbus connection within banshee ?

Tried to open the programm with strace, and had some rather strange result, have look below:

open("/usr/share/pixmaps/xorg-x11/default/cursors/hand1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
4305 brk(0xf5d000) = 0xf5d000
4306 brk(0xf7f000) = 0xf7f000
4307 brk(0xf7d000) = 0xf7d000
4308 brk(0xf7b000) = 0xf7b000
4309 brk(0xf6d000) = 0xf6d000
4310 brk(0xf6b000) = 0xf6b000
4311 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
4312 rt_sigreturn(0x414c1b47) = 0
4313 write(1, "Warning: [06/09/2006 16:08:26] ("..., 164Warning: [06/09/2006 16:08:26] (Could not connect to D-Bus) - D-Bus support will be disabled for this instance: Object r eference not set to an instance of an object) = 164
4314 write(1, "\n", 1
4315 ) = 1

Well, it seems that i have some severe problems somewhere else ...

[MetalGod]

hmm i recommend you to remove any ipod entries on fstab if you are using gnome and let GVM/hal/dbus do all work.