Ipod won't mount in 11.04

[greenjumper]

I can't get my ipod to mount in natty. It is a second generation classic with 32 GB. All that happens when I plug it in is that the ipod shows the "do not disconnect" screen. It doesn't mount and isn't recognized by Ubuntu.

Any ideas?

[steveredshaw]

same with me, just upgraded to 11.04, ipod used to be recognised under ubuntu 10, no problem, but now does not show up anywhere!!

[suquamish]

well, just to throw my hat in.

Fresh install of 11.04 on a new computer, neither my ipod touch nor my ipod classic will mount.

"Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc3..."

Both devices work fine on my Macs, and I know the classic works on my 10.10 box.


I suspect it's this bug.

[greenjumper]

I've managed to fix my problem like this:

Connect unrecognized ipod

sudo mkdir /media/ipod

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh - to find the uuid of the ipod

then I put this line in my fstab file:

UUID=D704-9A50 /media/ipod auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Seems to mount now with no problems.

I must say that on top of this I have given up on Banshee. It crashed every time I tried to do something with one of my ipods. Have gone back to good, old, reliable Rhythmbox and now I'm happy!

[steveredshaw]

I was going to try this, connected my ipod and it was recognised, just as it was before I upgraded

the only thing I have changed is that I chose Ubuntu Classic desktop rather than Unity (which I don't much like I have to say)

could running Unity be causing this problem?

[merrymairi]

I've managed to fix my problem like this:

Connect unrecognized ipod

sudo mkdir /media/ipod

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh - to find the uuid of the ipod

then I put this line in my fstab file:

UUID=D704-9A50 /media/ipod auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Seems to mount now with no problems.

This fix is not working for me. I don't know if it's my UUID or the way I edited fstab, but I still get the same message as before when I try to mount:
Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Any ideas as to what could be wrong?