When I first got the ipod I followed an OLD HOWTO that had NOT been updated since April 19th 06. I didn't notice how out of date these instructions were until after I had followed them. Perhaps following those outdated instructions caused something to be installed which is boning me now? Anyway, those instructions got it so I could get it to work by adding the line '/dev/sdb2 /mnt/ipod vfat user,noauto,umask=000 0 0' in my fstab and gtkpod will see it. Only gtkpod. Neither Rhythmbox or Banshee see it. Problem is I hear about these Edgy users that just plug in a Nano and away they go, automount and the good stuff. Not me. Plug it in and I get no visual response. I asked around IRC and looked on the forums and there are quite a few Edgy users who it just works for.

This may or may not be related but my Edgy install was via the Update-manager. Those I talked to on IRC that had it automatically mount had fresh install Edgys. I have tried 2 machines with the same results. Both machines were updated with Update-manager. I have reinstalled hal and gnome-volume-manager. That should make no difference. But of course it might. :\

What the computer is telling me:

Dmesg does list it. Here is the last 20 lines of dmesg following a disconnect & reconnect of the nano:

Code:
$ dmesg | tail -20
[17181247.008000] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 5
[17181281.016000] usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[17181281.148000] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 2 choices
[17181281.148000] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[17181281.148000] usb-storage: device found at 6
[17181281.148000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[17181286.148000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[17181286.148000]   Vendor: Apple     Model: iPod              Rev: 1.62
[17181286.148000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[17181286.152000] SCSI device sdb: 1982464 2048-byte hdwr sectors (4060 MB)
[17181286.152000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17181286.152000] sdb: Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
[17181286.152000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17181286.156000] SCSI device sdb: 1982464 2048-byte hdwr sectors (4060 MB)
[17181286.160000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17181286.160000] sdb: Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
[17181286.160000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17181286.160000]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
[17181286.164000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[17181286.164000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
lsusb lists:

Code:
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 05ac:1260 Apple Computer, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05ac:020b Apple Computer, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:008c Microsoft Corp. Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ac:1003 Apple Computer, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
I also have an Apple keyboard.

Code:
$ ps aux | grep hald
108       4509  0.1  0.5   7240  5704 ?        Ss   16:26   0:03 /usr/sbin/hald
root      4510  0.0  0.1   2916  1060 ?        S    16:26   0:00 hald-runner
108       4516  0.0  0.0   2028   812 ?        S    16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-acpi
108       4529  0.0  0.0   2028   804 ?        S    16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-keyboard
108       4532  0.0  0.0   2024   812 ?        S    16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-keyboard
108       4537  0.0  0.0   2024   804 ?        S    16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-keyboard
108       4547  0.0  0.0   2028   836 ?        S    16:26   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-storage
108       7919  0.0  0.0   2032   840 ?        S    16:54   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-storage
Code:
$ ps aux | grep gnome-volume-manager
chris     6655  0.0  0.5  18448  5468 ?        Ss   16:27   0:00 gnome-volume-manager --sm-client-id default4
chris     8317  0.0  0.0   2796   748 pts/1    R+   17:09   0:00 grep gnome-volume-manager
I tried applying the patch in this thread which led here which failed on step 6 with:

Code:
$ patch -p0 < via-raid-fix.debdiff
patching file hal-0.5.7.1/debian/changelog
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file hal-0.5.7.1/debian/changelog.rej
patching file hal-0.5.7.1/debian/patches/23-fix-via-raid-detection.patch
I am running Edgy, 2.6.17-10-386 #2 Tue Dec 5 22:26:18 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux. It's up to date. Why won't it work like it does for everybody else in Edgy?