GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 605075
ipod not detected when plugged in after banshee has been started
Last modified: 2010-04-27 00:23:24 UTC
During testing of the new DeviceKit-disks integration of banshee/podsleuth I've found the following problem: - when the ipod is plugged in after banshee has already been started or - when the ipod was previously ejected via banshee, unplugged and later plugged in again banshee does't detect it. - it does not happen all the time - enabling/disabling of the ipod extension doesn't help - podsleuth has detected the device properly If you need more data I'm happy to help debugging the problem.
Have other people been able to reproduce this (reliably)? My iPod was being wacky, so I rebuilt it with iTunes, then fired up Linux/Banshee to rebuild the database with Banshee. Banshee was unable to find it (even with the fixed podsleuth and DeviceKit-disks integration) until I manually ran 'podsleuth --rescan' from the command line. I only had to do this once; since then things have been fine. Still, I've been reading some reports on the Ubuntu Forums that sound a bit like this issue, and if this is a widespread problem, it would be a good one to track down.
Banshee 1.6.0 and podsleuth 0.6.6 here, on Ubuntu Lucid. Banshee won't detect my iPod unless I run podsleuth --rescan. Podsleuth won't find my iPod unless I open Disk Utility, unmount the iPod, and mount it again. Rhythmbox has no trouble right from first plugin. This iPod (Nano 4G) is Windows-formatted as of this morning, but was Mac-formatted through the past year and half. As a Mac-formatted iPod, Banshee always detected it, but could not read the database. Rhythmbox didn't have that problem.
Thanks for the report - you filed this before bug #615010, but I'm going to close it as a dupe of that since I have more technical information there. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 615010 ***