Comment 15 for bug 37163

I'm seeing the exact same problem on Dapper - my 40 GB iPod Photo is mounted and is browseable via Nautilus, but gtkpod fails to find the iTunes database. Launching gtkpod produces the following in /var/log/messages

Jul 12 19:11:01 localhost kernel: [ 140.716633] usb 7-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Jul 12 19:11:02 localhost kernel: [ 140.783302] sd 1:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x70000
Jul 12 19:11:02 localhost kernel: [ 140.783307] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 20549599
Jul 12 19:11:02 localhost kernel: [ 140.783312] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 20549600
Jul 12 19:11:32 localhost kernel: [ 155.810031] usb 7-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Jul 12 19:11:42 localhost kernel: [ 160.924336] usb 7-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Jul 12 19:11:58 localhost kernel: [ 169.106827] usb 7-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Jul 12 19:11:59 localhost kernel: [ 169.234583] usb 7-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Jul 12 19:12:09 localhost kernel: [ 174.348892] usb 7-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Jul 12 19:12:09 localhost kernel: [ 174.417881] sd 1:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
Jul 12 19:12:09 localhost kernel: [ 174.417889] sd 1:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x50000
Jul 12 19:12:09 localhost kernel: [ 174.417891] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 20549599
Jul 12 19:12:09 localhost kernel: [ 174.417912] lost page write due to I/O error on sdb2

The iPod is conneted via a USB PCI card to the dock directly. This is after upgrading the kernel this afternoon to 2.6.15-26-amd64-k8.

It seems to me that this makes Dapper unable to handle iPods at all - which is somewhat more dramatic than 'medium'. Rolling my own kernel is right now beyond my skills, and certainly those of the target Dapper user.