Okay, just moved my desktop box back from WinXP to Gentoo. Got a 40Gb iPod around xmas, and didn't want to risk using it with anything other than iTunes. I've got braver since then, so installed Gentoo 2004.0 last week. Running gentoo-dev-sources, installed the requisite VFAT, SCSI and 1394 drivers (in the kernel, not modules - I don't use hotplug), and emerge'd gtkpod. At first things seemed to work - mount /mnt/ipod showed a filesystem like this though: drwxr--r-- 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1980 calend~1 drwxr--r-- 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1980 contacts drwxr--r-- 5 root root 4096 Mar 3 2004 ipod_c~1 drwxr--r-- 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1980 notes Ah, the old ~1 "feature" of fat32 drives. Yuck. Found someone who'd had this problem in the forums, and had just done an 'rm -rf /mnt/ipod/*' and re-synced. Foolishly, I did the same. Used the 'create directories' feature in gtkpod, which seemed to fix it. Then imported my ~25Gb or so of mp3s, and hit 'Sync'. This was on saturday afternoon. Went out saturday night, checked it on Sunday morning, and it was frozen at 61%. I've tried it again, and it freezes at the same point. I have to kill the app, the window controls don't even respond. So now I can't use my iPod without installing Windows (ugh), and worse still nobody else seems to have come across this bug. Help!
Do you know on which file it crashes? Can you attach gdb to it (gdb -p <pid>) ?
Sorry, formatted and installed Windows (boo hiss) on that machine again since then - I couldn't wait to actually use the iPod! If only I'd thought to actually do that at the time :(
well ok.. reporter can't reproduce (and I can't either).. closing
