HOW-TO iPod with (Ubuntu) Linux

[kenailes]

okay, so i think something is hella goofed up on my ipd. when i type dmesg, this is what i get--notice all the errors. what the heck am i doing wrong?

[4304234.051000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[4304239.050000] Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
[4304239.050000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[4304239.058000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[4304239.262000] SCSI device sda: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB)
[4304239.264000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4304239.264000] sda: Mode Sense: 6c 00 00 08
[4304239.264000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4304239.267000] SCSI device sda: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB)
[4304239.269000] sda: Write Protect is off
[4304239.269000] sda: Mode Sense: 6c 00 00 08
[4304239.269000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4304239.269000] /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
[4304239.290000] Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
[4304254.825000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "gid=autofs" or missing value
[4304255.399000] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[4304255.547000] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[4304255.671000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[4304255.728000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[4304255.733000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[4304255.733000] FAT: bogus logical sector size 2
[4304255.733000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
[4304255.739000] FAT: bogus logical sector size 2
[4304255.739000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
[4304255.744000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.
[4304255.744000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
[4304255.744000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
[4304255.744000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
[4304255.750000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
[4304255.750000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
[4304255.750000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
[4304255.769000] HFS+-fs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
[4304255.775000] HFS+-fs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
[4304255.794000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.
[4304255.799000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.
[4304255.805000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.
[4304255.810000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.
[4304255.816000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.
[4304255.821000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.
[4304255.843000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda
[4304255.850000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda
[4304255.893000] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
[4304255.894000] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
[4304255.900000] XFS: bad magic number
[4304255.900000] XFS: SB validate failed
[4304255.906000] XFS: bad magic number
[4304255.906000] XFS: SB validate failed
[4304255.920000] JFS: nTxBlock = 3905, nTxLock = 31245
[4304259.676000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "gid=autofs" or missing value
[4304259.684000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "gid=autofs" or missing value
[4304259.691000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "gid=autofs" or missing value
[4304266.180000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "gid=autofs" or missing value
[4304266.189000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "gid=autofs" or missing value
[4304266.196000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "gid=autofs" or missing value
[4304272.717000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "gid=autofs" or missing value
[4304272.751000] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[4304272.774000] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[4304272.828000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[4304272.887000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[4304272.892000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[4304272.893000] FAT: bogus logical sector size 2
[4304272.893000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
[4304272.898000] FAT: bogus logical sector size 2
[4304272.898000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
[4304272.903000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.
[4304272.904000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
[4304272.904000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
[4304272.904000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
[4304272.912000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
[4304272.912000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
[4304272.918000] HFS+-fs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
[4304272.924000] HFS+-fs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
[4304272.930000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.
[4304272.936000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.
[4304272.941000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.
[4304272.946000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.
[4304272.953000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.
[4304272.958000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.
[4304272.965000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda
[4304272.972000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda
[4304272.978000] XFS: bad magic number
[4304272.978000] XFS: SB validate failed
[4304272.984000] XFS: bad magic number
[4304272.984000] XFS: SB validate failed

[KingOfNowhere]

please post your /etc/fstab and are you using gnome or kde?

it seems that your ipod is being hotplugged correctly but it is unable to mount with the appropriate filesystem.

was your ipod originally formatted for windows or mac?

[KingOfNowhere]

AusIV,

i am not aware of any linux programs that support the iTMS DRM. sorry. To my knowledge, quicktime is what is used to validate the DRM of iTMS purchases.

my advice to you is to burn your purchased music to cd (using iTunes), and re-rip the tracks. this will elliminate the DRM

[topper_harley]

Is there a way to make Amarok svn automatically fetch missing ipod covers as it does with local files?

[ddonky]

This works real well with the Shuffle.

http://shuffle-db.sourceforge.net/

For some reason I can't click the executable to run the script, but it works great from the command line.

[ren wins]

when i start up gtkpod, i get the error "/media/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB' does not exist. Import aborted."

i've got a .ext file called iTunesDB in ~/.gtkpod (~/.gtkpod/iTunesDB.ext). it seems that, without this file, gtkpod won't remember what's on my ipod, and /media/ipod/ doesnt exist. Can i mkdir and put iTunesDB.ext into it to make everything happy?

[ddonky]

I'm pretty sure that /media/ipod is a directory that is created by the system when it mounts your ipod.

If you mkdir the directory then mount your ipod the system will then create and use /media/ipod2.

[sinaen]

How do you get it to work so easily in AmaroK? for me it was one of the most worriedsome programs in the list of ipod-able programs but id love to get it to work because it's my main music-program....

[jms830]

In order to make this howto complete, I would add the new GTKpod version w/ a howto install to the video section. There are debs that I have used for video at the following links:

http://box.go.dyndns.org/dev/libgpod_0.3.0-1_i386.deb

http://box.go.dyndns.org/dev/gtkpod_...-0cvs_i386.deb

all I did was install them

sudo dpkg -i libgpod_0.3.0-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i gtkpod_0.99.3-0cvs_i386.deb

I haven't tried using version 0.99.4 debs but the ones above (0.99.3) do work.
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my original source that I found these links was here
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...0&postcount=34

[smallguy]

Did anybody have trouble copying .mp4 (video) files to their iPod video?

gtkpod doesn't seem to recognize .mp4 files!