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Re: How to mount an iPod Touch

On 11/22/2014 04:09 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 23/11/14 09:50, Marc Shapiro wrote:

My daughter has recently purchased an iPod Touch and would like to be
able to maintain it from our linux box running Wheezy.  My wife has an
iPad Mini and it would be nice to be able to maintain that from the
linux box, as well.  I have googled.  I have upgraded to the latest
kernel from Backports (3.16).  I have installed libimobiledevice-utils.
I have done everything I can think of.

When I plug the device in I get the following in dmesg:

[  127.569680] usb 4-4.4: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[  127.665562] usb 4-4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac,
idProduct=12aa
[  127.666054] usb 4-4.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[  127.666538] usb 4-4.4: Product: iPod
[  127.667021] usb 4-4.4: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
[  127.667517] usb 4-4.4: SerialNumber:
ea1f2a0800d76f91f9bc0d50d6620151d249e6a9

You will note that there is no mention of a mountable device node. I
have added a file, '50-custom.rules' in /etc/udev/rules.d that contains
the line:

BUS=="scsi", ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ac", ATTRS{idProduct}=="12aa",
ATTRS{serial}=="ea1f2a0800d76f91f9bc0d50d6620151d249e6a9",
NAME{all_partitions}="ipod", GROUP="plugdev"


Should be "BUS=="usb"
Also, MODE="0660"

Note that you:-
;only need to supply enough rules to match the device (minimum of 2 from
memory) I'd suggest you use BUS and ATTRS{serial}.
;you haven't mentioned what you want to "do" with the device i.e. mount
it somewhere - or "who" should do that. Please let me know what you want
to do (I don't know anything about gtkpod requirements)


Example only - this will work - but should be modified to suit your
requirement (please read further down):-
ATTRS{serial}=="ea1f2a0800d76f91f9bc0d50d6620151d249e6a9",
ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Apple Inc.", ATTRS{product}=="iPod",
KERNEL=="sd?1", SYMLINK+="ipod", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660"


I then tried connecting the device again.  Still nothing.  I rebooted
with the device attached.  Nothing.

Apologies - I'm rushed today and don't have time to check my notes. Try:-
udevadm control --reload-rules


What am I doing wrong?

Not supplying dense walls of text describing your circumstances? ;)

You mention two devices - in which case I'd:-
;suggest you turn on udev debugging (as root "udevadm control
--log-priority=debug")
For now, I'm just trying to get my daughter's iPod connected. My wife says that she is only interested in getting photos and video off and I should be able to do that with shotwell. Shotwell works with unmounted devices and detects and accesses my daughter's iPod just fine, so will probably work with my wife's iPad Mini, as well. 
;*post* the output of "udevadm info"[*1] for both IPod devices) to
paste.debian.net and include a link in your reply.

[*1] see the Ref below for an expansion on what I mean by that.
The first thing that post says to do is to get the device node. That is my problem. I do not have a device node for the iPod (see the output from dmesg and my comments, above). I tried the grep on /var/log/messages, as the post suggested, but it did not provide a device node. It gave pretty much the same as the dmesg output that I posted above:
Nov 22 17:39:18 quixote kernel: [11593.557084] usb 4-4.4: USB disconnect, device number 8 Nov 22 17:39:18 quixote kernel: [11593.789452] usb 4-4.4: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci-pci Nov 22 17:39:18 quixote kernel: [11593.885203] usb 4-4.4: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=12aa Nov 22 17:39:18 quixote kernel: [11593.885213] usb 4-4.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 
Nov 22 17:39:18 quixote kernel: [11593.885218] usb 4-4.4: Product: iPod
Nov 22 17:39:18 quixote kernel: [11593.885222] usb 4-4.4: Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Nov 22 17:39:18 quixote kernel: [11593.885226] usb 4-4.4: SerialNumber: ea1f2a0800d76f91f9bc0d50d6620151d249e6a9 Nov 22 17:39:18 quixote mtp-probe: checking bus 4, device 9: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.2/usb4/4-4/4-4.4" 
Nov 22 17:39:18 quixote mtp-probe: bus: 4, device: 9 was not an MTP device
It did not continue with any of the other lines such as you show and most specifically, does not provide a device node. I had already looked in /dev/disk/by-path, but there is nothing there. If I had a device node then I would not have posted the question, since I would have been able to mount the device and use gtkpod. My problem is the *lack* of a device node. 


Ref:- (a guide I've previously posted to this list)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/12/msg01117.html
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