Copy to iPod fail causes hundreds of popup windows

[Miles]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

If I drag 200 songs to an ipod which has space for only 10 of them, I am presented with 190 pop up windows informing me that I do not have enough space.

One would suffice! ;)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 19 18:34:03 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.2-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: rhythmbox
ProcCwd: /home/mcrawfor
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux Green 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Miles (mcrawfor)]

I realize that this is similar to Bug #144292 but that was closed due to some conflated issue with Xorg. Xorg did not crash for me.

Whatever Xorg's behavior this is definitely a bug with Rhythmbox's behavior.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, that's known upstream, you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373611

[andre (andrew-dorrell)]

This bug still has "unconfirmed" status upstream. WTF? It was first reported in 2006. Here I was trying to demonstrate to my son how well the open source model works :-(

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no other ipod user seems to have the issue so it's not easy to work on it

[andre (andrew-dorrell)]

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> no other ipod user seems to have the issue so it's not easy to work on
> it
>

Really? Wow I must just be having all the luck at the moment. (Though
I find it really hard to believe that no other ipod users have the issue).

Is there some way I can help then? It seems like it should be a
no-brainer. Just bail out as soon as the first copy fails? Or just
give a single status report at the end of a "bulk" transaction?

Another problem We've been getting with rhythmbox is jumbling of album
art. I can't find a bug in rhythmbox's bugzilla on that either - even
though it seems to be a well know issue with libgpod and is discussed on
various blogs. Perhaps users aren't always filing bugs as you might
expect...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> Though I find it really hard to believe that no other ipod users have the issue)

a really low number of users if you prefer, that bug got no duplicate in years and there is lot of ipod users there

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what do you call "jumbling"? is your ipod running out of space that the copy doesn't work?

[andre (andrew-dorrell)]

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> what do you call "jumbling"? is your ipod running out of space that the
> copy doesn't work?
>

There are two independent issues:

1. system does not cope if you copy over more than the ipod can store.
In this case it seems there are too many error messages generated and
the system hangs - typically we shutdown by holding the power button -
its that bad. (It's not a super fast machine but it has 1.5G of memory
and copes with most things.)

2. album art is mixed up on the ipod even after a successful copy

I've submitted 2 as a separate bug report
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581973

Please feel free to contact for more specific information.

Thanks for the correspondence.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for opening a bug about the artwork, I can't confirm that there the artwork copied matches the one displayed in rhythmbox there

[Jesse Michael (jesse.michael)]

I've run into this bug a number of times also, but it's happened for me due to permission errors rather than my ipod running out of space.

Often when I plug in in my ipod, it gets mounted as root:root instead of my desktop user and if I forget about that and try to copy stuff to the ipod, I get a storm of error popups. That's pretty painful when you're trying to copy more than 500 files, as I've done more than once.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thanks for your comment, it would be nice if you can add them to the bug we have opened with the developers of the software, you can see them at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373611

[andre (andrew-dorrell)]

So that took nearly 10 years!

On 21/10/2016 8:05 am, "Bug Watch Updater" <email address hidden>
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> ** Changed in: rhythmbox
> Status: New => Confirmed
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> Title:
> Copy to iPod fail causes hundreds of popup windows
>
> Status in Rhythmbox:
> Confirmed
> Status in rhythmbox package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: rhythmbox
>
>
> If I drag 200 songs to an ipod which has space for only 10 of them, I am
> presented with 190 pop up windows informing me that I do not have enough
> space.
>
> One would suffice! ;)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Nov 19 18:34:03 2007
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: rhythmbox 0.11.2-0ubuntu4
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcCmdline: rhythmbox
> ProcCwd: /home/mcrawfor
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/
> sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: rhythmbox
> Uname: Linux Green 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007
> i686 GNU/Linux
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