Re: [Gtkpod-devel] A few issue with FirewireGuid and Local

[Jorg S. <Jor...@gm...>]

Mario Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just update my copy of gtkpod after a while and I'm lost with 2 things:
> 
> 1) It keeps complaining about the missing FirewireGuid.
> 2) Local does not work as I remember.
> 
> I've deleted ~/.gtkpod and restarted from scratch.
> 
> Gtkpod starts with: Local, Podcasts, iPod.
> If I try to add a file to Local, I get "Please load the iPod before 
> adding tracks", and there is no way of using it.
> 
> So now
> 1) I change the mount point of iPod to some non existing local dorectory.
> 2) I try to load it (clicking on the plug)
> 3) it complains the directory does not exist
> 4) I create the structure choosing a 5.5th gen 80GB iPod
> 5) it complains the FirewireGuid is not there??!?!?!?!? How come? It has 
> generated a new structure?????????
> 6) I leave gtkpod running and add a dummy FirewireGuid to the SysInfo file
> 7) I try to load it again
> 8) it asks to create the directory again (why???), but this time the 
> FirewireGuid is there!
> 9) I can work with this iPod as a "Local" Database.
> 
> It looks to me that the FirewireGuid should get a default value if 
> missing since it makes everything impossible when it is missing.
> 
> Or am I completely wrong?
> 
> I always compile with --without-gnome-vfs --without-hal since I prefer 
> to control when to load and unload the iPod.

I think you're on the wrong track -- this issue has been reported before 
and I never could track it down. There's some more information in this 
in the list I believe. Unfortunately I won't be able to do anything 
about it for the next three weeks either. It's clearly a bug about 
gtkpod thinking that Local is an iPod, which it isn't.

Cheers,


JCS.