Hey guys I have a problem with my iPod on ubuntu hoary (5.04). The hotplug system mounts it automatically without any worries to /media/iPod, the first time I used it everything was sweet I just put my stuff on the iPod with gtkpod, no worries. My problem is now the iPod seems to be automounting read-only, so I can't write to my iPod. I'm not sure why it's doing this, or how I can change it. The gnome removable devices prefs don't have anything for iPods, and google hasn't helped me out. Thanks in advance.

cute: give us a look in fstab there - should be automounting read/write for everyone. (Or were you root when you first used it?)

There isn't an entry in fstab -
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda10 / reiserfs defaults,user_xattr 0 1
/dev/hda13 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

Here is the output of "mount" when the ipod is plugged in, when it's not working.
/dev/hda10 on / type reiserfs (rw,user_xattr,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev on /.dev type unknown (rw,bind)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=5M,mode=0755)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /media/iPod type hfsplus (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000)

As you can see thats the ipod down the bottom there. I think that the rw would mean read write but it isn't it's mounted read only, i can't edit anything even with root. Hope you guys can help.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=137174

"...In addition, I tried every combination of hpfsck after building it with the
above package. Didn't seem to make any difference at all. However mounting the
fs with "./hpmount /dev/sda3" and then unmounting with "./hpumount" fixes the
problem. Just fyi."