Can not mount ipod or use gtkpod

[Nbala]

I am using 9.10 Karmic Koala Oct 2009 release.
Gtkpod does not show my ipod touch, and I can not mount the ipod.
I realise there were problems with the ipod touch syncing/mounting but gtkpod has the touch option, and I have all the files from synaptic for using an ipod touch.


When I run gtkpod its just blank, no music files show up.
If I click load ipod I get the error:


“Ipod Directory Structure not found”
Could not find iPod directory structure at '/dev/sdc2'.
If you are sure that the iPod is properly mounted at '/dev/sdc2', it may not be initialized for use. In this case, gtkpod can initialize it for you.
Do you want to create the directory structure now?
Then I choose ipod model and mount point and get the msg:
Error initializing ipod: problem creating iPod directory or file: 'dev/sdc2'


ALSO there is an secondary static ipod icon in file browser but if I try to mount or use it I get:
Unable to mount location
Mount: special device /dev/sdc2 does not exist
[this is probably from when I tried to manually mount it in the beginning – now I cant get rid of it, any advice on that would also help]


Ive tried gtkpod from sudo, Ive also tried other apps, and all the packages supposed to enable USB connections for this very purpose etc.




FSTAB:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=b9d57231-8a16-40f3-af45-edece8976ea7 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=a435018d-13d8-48f0-83c9-dedb5f5ee58e none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdc2 /media/iPod vfat nosuid,nodev,rw,umask=077,gid=1000,uid=1000,user,d efaults,noatime,iocharset=utf8 0 0
[ yes I removed noauto on the advice of a netizen ]


MTAB:
/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/ablanathanalba/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ablanathanalba 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,utf8,user=ablanathanalba 0 0

When I run gtkpod from terminal with sudo I receive:
(gtkpod:31159): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_menu_attach_to_widget(): menu already attached to GtkImageMenuItem
(gtkpod:31159): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated


-seems like graphical errors (from a theme) and unrelated but thought I'd mention it


I really want to update my ipod Im using music from 2 years ago, any ideas greatly appreciated!

[Amzo2]

Yeah I had the same problem, but when I mounted the ipod else where, like /mnt/, it worked like a charm. Hope this helps

[ootawata]

Yeah I had the same problem, but when I mounted the ipod else where, like /mnt/, it worked like a charm. Hope this helps

Thank you, this does help. I use Arch, and in their wiki I remember seeing them say something like "mount to ~/ipod". An Ubuntu guide said "mount to /media/ipod" or "/mnt/ipod". Anyway, I've noticed that, due to privileges, gtkpod could not connect to the mount point. For example, even "ls" couldn't read it without being super user:

/media$ ls
ls: cannot access ipod: Permission denied
cd/  disk/  dvd/  fl/  ipod/

which I found strange. So the solution is to do this (assuming ~/ipod isn't made yet):

$ mkdir ~/ipod
$ sudo ifuse ~/ipod

if you have gtkpod already running, it'll detect it, which I thought was neat.