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iPod won't remount unless I reboot

I have an iPod Shuffle that I manage through Amarok. I can mount the device and transfer just fine, and the disconnect is successful, but even after manually unmounting the device, the next time I connect it, it will not mount. The automount hangs, and if I cancel it and try to mount it manually, I get the message "mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist"; however, it does seem to be charging even so.

So, how do I get my iPod to remount without rebooting every time?

Update: I just rebooted without the iPod plugged in, and it also will not mount if it is not already plugged in at boot time.

do you have access to it through the plugdev group (/etc/groups)

As C-Sniper said fire-up a text editor and take a look at /etc/group.

For example:

# nano /etc/group

Add your regular user to the following groups: plugdev, audio, video, cdrom, and floppy

Ctrl+o (save)
Ctrl+x (exit nano)

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest

For example:

# nano /etc/group

Add your regular user to the following groups: plugdev, audio, video, cdrom, and floppy

Ctrl+o (save)
Ctrl+x (exit nano)

Or, if you don't want to manually edit /etc/group, you can just do the following as root:

Code:

# gpasswd -a username plugdev

# gpasswd -a username cdrom

# gpasswd -a username audio

# gpasswd -a username video

# gpasswd -a username floppy

Or just add your user to those secondary groups when you create the user using `adduser` instead of `useradd`. In 12.1 it even suggests pressing the UP arrow to see the recommended groups.

Okay, I did that (the only group I wasn't already in was plugdev) and the automount still hung. When I canceled it, then tried to mount it manually, I got the message that it was already mounted and a cat /etc/mtab showed it in there. Then I tried to look at /media in Konqueror and that crashed X completely.

Rebooted for good measure, and... same thing.

Code:

bash-3.1# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/ipod

mount: /dev/sda already mounted or /media/ipod busy

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda is already mounted on /media/ipod

bash-3.1# cat /etc/mtab

/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw 0 0

proc /proc proc rw 0 0 

sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0

usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0

/dev/hda2 /hd ext3 rw 0 0

/dev/hda3 /home ext3 rw 0 0

/dev/hdd1 /ntfs fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0

tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0

/dev/sda /media/ipod vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0

It does show that it's mounted, but it's not accessible through X (it just now occurred to me to try to browse it in Terminal, and Terminal doesn't have a problem).

I don't know if this makes any difference, but I can mount and unmount as much as I want, and as long as I don't physically remove the iPod from its cradle, and it was plugged in when I booted, KDE doesn't have any problem. The problem occurs after I've removed the iPod (or it wasn't plugged in at boot) and want to plug it back in to charge/resync. At that time, if I try to access the iPod from within X, KDE goes down in flames.

Clarification: Obviously, it is actually re-mounting. However, Konqueror either won't open at all, or crashes when I try to open it (taking the rest of KDE with it), and Amarok crashes when I try to detect the iPod. I can see the iPod's contents just fine in a terminal emulator, or in Thunar... and in gtkpod, for that matter, but I don't like gtkpod, and would prefer not to have to use a special app just for syncing (I didn't like iTunes either, and only ever used it for syncing).

Just to clarify things. Is this behaviour happening in Slackware 12.1 or Zenwalk 5? Both? Very interesting.

Slackware 12.1. I haven't tried it in Zenwalk because there's no music on that machine. Also, it's running Xfce rather than KDE, and I think it's probably KDE that's causing the problem here.

I'll try it though, and see what happens.

Confirmed. No problem at all unmounting and remounting the iPod in Zenwalk 5 with Xfce.

How does your ipod work with XFce in Slackware 12.1? Same as KDE? Does it crash with XFce on Slackware 12.1?

Xfce doesn't seem to have any problems even in Slackware 12.1. I can unmount, unplug, and plug back in, and it automounts normally and doesn't seem to cause any problems. It's just KDE.

No, wait. I just tested it again after actually using Amarok and it does the same thing in Xfce (automount hangs, Amarok crashes). So maybe it's Amarok causing all the problems.

Which is a shame, really, as it's the closest thing I've found to having all the features I like.