SuSE 9.3, my iPod, and gtkpod (mouting troubles)

zhuangshi · 08-16-2005, 07:44 PM

Greetings all:

First I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this.

Here's my problem. I got my iPod (2nd Gen. - 6GB) the other day and I hooked it up, created the databases and everything using gtkpod. It was all REALLY simple, and I uploaded my songs. So far so good, but then today I decided I wanted to add more songs (ones that I didn't have properly tagged before) to my iPod. So I plug it in, and since I'm running SuSE 9.3 it automatically mounts, but I didn't realize it only mounted as a "read-only" device (it took me quite a while to figure this out).

Anyway, I figured out that the other day I didn't unmount the iPod. I have tried plugging the iPod back in and unmounting it ("umount /media/iPod" in console as SU), unplugging and then remounting, but it's still not working. I keep getting the following message when I try to upload songs:

Code:

Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F12/gtkpod00980.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F13/gtkpod00981.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F14/gtkpod00982.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F15/gtkpod00983.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F16/gtkpod00984.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F17/gtkpod00985.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F18/gtkpod00986.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F19/gtkpod00987.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F00/gtkpod00988.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F01/gtkpod00989.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F02/gtkpod00990.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F03/gtkpod00991.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F04/gtkpod00992.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F05/gtkpod00993.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F06/gtkpod00994.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F07/gtkpod00995.mp3" for writing.
Could not open file "/media/iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F08/gtkpod00996.mp3" for writing.

If anyone who has had this problem and solved it please tell me how to do it, it would be greatly appreciated. As a matter of fact, if anyone could tell me what to do it would be greatly appreciated.

PS. Please be detailed when responding, because sometimes I read posts and have no idea where they want me to type things in.

Thanks again guys/girls.

aysiu · 08-16-2005, 08:12 PM

I've never been able to successfully unmount an iPod using unmount. The only way to properly unmount it (so that the "Do not disconnect" message disappears from the iPod screen) is to eject it. So when I want to eject my iPod, I type df in the terminal, to see where it is. If it's at /dev/sde1, then I type eject /dev/sde1. You have to have eject installed, of course (it's a program, not just a command).

zhuangshi · 08-16-2005, 08:21 PM

is it on Guru or Packman?

aysiu · 08-16-2005, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zhuangshi
is it on Guru or Packman?

I don't have SuSE handy. It's possible eject may already be installed. If it is, and you type man eject in the terminal, you should get the manual for that command. Otherwise, it should say the bash command is not found.

zhuangshi · 08-17-2005, 12:26 AM

I'm still getting the error when I try to upload the mp3s to my iPod. (Even after I eject and then plug it in again.)

orgcandman · 08-17-2005, 09:46 AM

Actually, I'm also having some troubles using SuSE and iPod. I have a 3G (Maybe it's a 4G) 20GB iPod, and I keep having problems with the FAT sync (when the kernel actually performs the scheduled writes to the iPod). I get the following message:

Quote:

Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key No Sense
...
SCSI error : <9 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
end_request: I/O error. dev sda. sector 307062
FAT bread failed in fat_clusters_flush
sda : READ CAPACITY FAILED
sda : status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
sda : sense not available.

and I can't seem to get the iPod to recognize new songs with ANY of the software (gtkpod, gnupod, etc..).

Seems like a problem with the vfat driver?

Anyone have any experience with this issue?

Thanks,
Aaron