claims ipod needs initialization

Bug #363226 reported by Jamin W. Collins
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Rhythmbox
Expired
Medium
rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Every time I connect my iPod I'm greeted with a prompt stating:

"Do you want to initialize your iPod?

Rhythmbox has detected a device that is probably an uninitialised or corrupted iPod. It must be initialised before Rhythmbox can use it, but this will destroy any song metadata already present. If you wish Rhythmbox to initialise the iPod, please fill in the information below. If the device is not an iPod, or you do not wish to initialise it, please click cancel."

The ironic bit is that while this prompt is present Rhythmbox proceeds to play audio from the iPod without issue.

I have added an ext3 partition to the iPod, but this partition has been present during the iPod's use with previous releases and never caused a problem such as this.

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sdb: 8120 MB, 8120172544 bytes
250 heads, 62 sectors/track, 255 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15500 * 2048 = 31744000 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 3 92876 0 Empty
/dev/sdb2 4 215 6572000 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb3 216 255 1240000 83 Linux

$ mount | grep sdb
/dev/sdb2 on /media/iPod type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush)
/dev/sdb3 on /media/key-backup type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

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Jamin W. Collins (jcollins) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thank you for your bug report, the issue is an upstream one and should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having access to a device triggering the issue

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
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Jamin W. Collins (jcollins) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks Jamin for sent it upstream.

Changed in rhythmbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Stu (stu-axon) wrote :

I realise it's upstream, but might be useful to know it is 2016 and still hitting this regularly, with an iphone 4s plugged in while RB is open.

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: New → Expired
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