Banshee iPod support stopped working at ~Lucid Alpha 2

[komputes]

Binary package hint: banshee

I was able to synchronize my iPod Nano 2G while Lucid was in Alpha stage. However, testing the latest beta, the device no longer shows up in the left-side pane.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: banshee 1.5.6-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 27 16:27:24 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I see the same, with an iPod Classic 5G. Rhythmbox sees it fine, but not Banshee.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I tried recreating this with Banshee version 1.6.0-1 with a 20 GB 3rd generation iPod and was unsuccessful. Is this still an issue you for you with the latest version of banshee? Thanks in advance.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Looking at the changelog it might have been fixed:

banshee (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    + Notable bug fixes:
      - Fix device support on upcoming distros with DeviceKit rename

[komputes (komputes)]

Well it seemed to work on Saturday (iPod showed up in banshee but did not sync), but after the latest updates, I am not able to see my iPod in Banshee 1.6.0-1. Brian, can you see your iPod in Banshee with today's updates.

[davidcaste (davidcaste)]

I can confirm that I'm also not able to synchronize my iPod Nano with current Banshee version in Lucid.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I can no longer see my iPod in Banshee. As banshee did not change it must have been another package change causing the issue.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I happened to notice a log file /tmp/podsleuth-debug that might provide some details about this bug:

  - Temporary Mount Point:
  - FS Type:

Exception:

System.ApplicationException: Could not find org.freedesktop.Hal
  at Hal.Device.CastDevice[IDevice] () [0x00000]
  at Hal.Device..ctor (System.String udi) [0x00000]
  at PodSleuth.HalFrontend.HalPopulator.RunInternal (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
  at PodSleuth.HalFrontend.HalPopulator.Run (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

I mention it because banshee recommends podsleuth but I'm not certain if it really uses for communicating with the iPod.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Wednesday 21,April,2010 08:31 AM, Brian Murray wrote:
> I happened to notice a log file /tmp/podsleuth-debug that might provide
> some details about this bug:
>
> - Temporary Mount Point:
> - FS Type:
>
> Exception:
>
> System.ApplicationException: Could not find org.freedesktop.Hal
> at Hal.Device.CastDevice[IDevice] () [0x00000]
> at Hal.Device..ctor (System.String udi) [0x00000]
> at PodSleuth.HalFrontend.HalPopulator.RunInternal (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
> at PodSleuth.HalFrontend.HalPopulator.Run (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
>
> I mention it because banshee recommends podsleuth but I'm not certain if
> it really uses for communicating with the iPod.
>
Do you have hal installed? It looks like Podsleuth is trying to talk to Hal but
cannot due to the D-Bus interface file missing.

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

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Yes, I do.

8:27:48 - flash:[~] apt-cache policy hal
hal:
  Installed: 0.5.14-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 0.5.14-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.14-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[taihen (taihen)]

Quite similar problem. Rhythmbox detects my iPod classic 80G, but banshee-1 does not.

$ cat /tmp/podsleuth-debug

Pre-Mount Settings:
  - UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_5A54_20FF
  - Block Device: /dev/sdc1
  - Temporary Mount Point: /tmp/podsleuth-mount-0
  - FS Type: vfat

Exception:

Mono.Unix.UnixIOException: No such file or directory [ENOENT].
  at PodSleuth.LowLevelMount.Mount (System.String source, System.String target, System.String fstype, Boolean readOnly) [0x00000]
  at PodSleuth.HalFrontend.HalPopulator.RunInternal (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
  at PodSleuth.HalFrontend.HalPopulator.Run (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

$ podsleuth
No iPods were found in the HAL device tree

[taihen (taihen)]

Just as a addition, banshee log:

$ tail -f ~/.config/banshee-1/log
exec -a banshee-1 mono /usr/lib/banshee-1/Banshee.exe --redirect-log --play-enqueued

[Info 12:27:46.372] Running Banshee 1.6.0: [Ubuntu lucid (development branch) (linux-gnu, x86_64) @ 2010-04-04 14:20:11 UTC]
[Info 12:27:47.625] All services are started 1.047523s
[Info 12:27:48.601] nereid Client Started
[Warn 12:29:42.353] Audioscrobbler sign-on failed - Last.fm username is invalid or Banshee is not authorized to access you account.
[Info 12:30:27.210] Received device command: action = Activate, device = /media/IPOD

But still it's not pop in up in banshee gui.

[Ricardo Ferreira (ricardofcf)]

Got the same problem. It has already been reported on Bugzilla ( https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613575 ).

Pre-Mount Settings:
  - UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_7B79_12A6
  - Block Device: /dev/sdb2
  - Temporary Mount Point: /tmp/podsleuth-mount-3
  - FS Type: vfat

Exception:

Mono.Unix.UnixIOException: No such file or directory [ENOENT].
  at PodSleuth.LowLevelMount.Mount (System.String source, System.String target, System.String fstype, Boolean readOnly) [0x00000]
  at PodSleuth.HalFrontend.HalPopulator.RunInternal (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
  at PodSleuth.HalFrontend.HalPopulator.Run (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

[matrixblue (matrixblue)]

I'm using 10.04 UNE and have been experiencing this as well. Banshee sees the device fine when I disable auto-mounting in gconf-editor /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount_open

[bdr529 (michael-severin)]

I can confirm that Banshee (with Lucid) sees my iPod Nano 4G only after disabing auto-mounting in gconf-editor. Thanks for the workaround!

[dvspeed (manxi-david)]

I have the same problem, but I solve it doing this just after conect mi ipod nano 2G:
sudo podsleuth --rescan
Then, I run banshee

[eric (obrowny06)]

It affects me as well. None of the solutions below is working.

sudo podsleuth --rescan returns "No iPods were found in the HAL device tree"

The ipod is recognized in rhythmbox without any problem.

Banshee version is 1.6.0 and I did an upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04.

Moreover banshee crashes once or twice at first launch... Don't kow if there is any link between both problems

[eric (obrowny06)]

Here is the logfile :

[eric (obrowny06)]

If I disable /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount_open

but also /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount

It works if mounting ipod manually

[Filippo Garavaglia (fili-garavaglia)]

I had to run
sudo podsleuth --rescan
WITH banshee opened
then closed it and relaunched it.
Still I hope someone fixes this.

[jimav (james-avera)]

Still not working in 10.04LTS updated 6/1/2010 with banshee 1.7.1

The iPod gets mounted in /mount but banshee does not see it (Rhythmbox does).

[Eric (weisscoder)]

I am no longer experiencing this problem with banshee 1.6.1 and an up-to-date Lucid install. Can someone else confirm whether or not this problem is fixed?

[bdr529 (michael-severin)]

I am using Banshee 1.7.3 (daily-build) with Lucid (up-to-date).

After your posting i enabled /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount_open and also /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount.
It all works fine now Someone has fixed it.
 Thanks to him or her :-)

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Tuesday 27,July,2010 02:29 PM, bdr529 wrote:
> I am using Banshee 1.7.3 (daily-build) with Lucid (up-to-date).
>
> After your posting i enabled /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount_open and also /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount.
> It all works fine now Someone has fixed it.
> Thanks to him or her :-)
>
  status fixed

--
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

[komputes (komputes)]

I'm sorry Chow Loong Jin, but this has not yet been fixed. I have followed your instruction but can't seem to synchronize playlists with my iPod Nano 2G using the daily build of Banshee (1.7.3+git20100801.r1.be6c84b-0ubuntu1+lucid).

After your posting I enabled /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount_open and also /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount but this did not seem to help.

[komputes (komputes)]

Testing iPod Sync in Banshee 1.7.6 in Maverick Meerkat Beta (Ubuntu 10.10) seems to work somewhat better.