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Having deleted all the songs from my iPod Touch 16GB I was trying to put
another 10GB of songs back on.
Wasn't optimistic, thanks to Apple's obfuscated protocols, and sure
enough about a half hour later the whole thing had hung, with a blank
alert box and a
** Attachment added: rhythmbox_hung.png
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044974/+attachment/3288893/+files/rhythmbox_hung.png
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After force quit and restart, it's still hung, and can't even seem to
load my music library. See screenshot.
** Attachment added: rhythmbox_reloaded_hung.png
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rhythmbox/+bug/1044974/+attachment/3288900/+files/rhythmbox_reloaded_hung.png
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Eventually, (after 5 minutes or so) the attached screenshot appears,
indicating that the fact the iPod is still plugged in is triggering the
same or a related latent bug.
** Attachment added: rhythmbox_reloaded_eventual.png
Attempting to unmount, kill nautilus or force-unplug the iPod had no
effect, so I ran
ps aux | grep gvfs | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs -n1 sudo kill -9
...which killed the iPod mount and caused Rhythmbox's hanging on blank
alert box behaviour to resolve itself.
It's offered to reinitialise my
When it offered to initialise my iPod the device was no longer
connected, as it turns out. The iPod has songs on it, and can be
browsed through Rhythmbox as long as I don't try to copy files onto it.
Checking the filesystem with Baobab shows that it indeed has about 3.6
Gig of songs, and is not
