Until recently I had an ipod 4th gen nano working well. Now, when ever I try to mount it I get the following error

Unable to mount
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.NotFound: The given volume was not found

The Ipod will charge and appears as "connected." I have tried manually mounting it to no avail.

I run Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) on a Fujitsu Laptop.

When I plug the Ipod in and type "mount" into the terminal this is what I get:

/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/diandoo/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=diandoo)

I don't know what the problem is and this is very frustrating.

Can anyone help?

Have you tried connecting the iPod to another computer to make sure it's not the problem? Also, look in /dev and see if any new devices show up when you plug it in. It usually will be /dev/sda or /dev/sdb. If it does show up, try typing "mount /dev/sdX1 /media/mount/" where X is a or b (or even c or d). You will have to make the folder /media/mount/ if it isn't there.

Thanks for replying. The manual mount didn't work. I guess the next step is to try and reformat it. I could probably find one of the billions of PC users out there to let me on their machine.

What errors does it give you? If the iPod is formatted in HFS+ (Apple's filesystem) then you might have to install a driver. Did you have it working on this machine at some time? And did you make any major changes to it?

The only error message I get is the dbus error i quoted above telling me it wont mount.
I formatted it initially with a windows machine and it's been working fine for over a year with my ubuntu machine. After plugging it into my roommate's Mac today, it was recognized but corrupt. I didn't want to initialize it in a Mac because my understanding is that the FAT format works better/is easier with Linux.
Oddly, most of my friends use Mac but I'm going to try and find a PC to reformat it and see if that helps. If not, I suppose I'll have to dig deeper.
I've done some research and as far as I can tell there isn't a way to reformat a corrupt Ipod without the touch of itunes. If you know of a place I could look, I'd appreciate it. I do hate to use that program...
Thanks for the response.

You'd probably better use Apple's software to reformat it, or else its possible the iPod wouldn't be set up correctly. I could be wrong about this though.