[Triaged] System tries to mount iPod firmware partition

Question

Hi. I switched from hal-easy back to hal today, and it's started doing something weird.
It's trying to mount my iPod's firmware partition now. It's the first partition, and doesn't have a file system on it. So before mounting the iPod's real partition, I get an error dialog about how it failed to mount that first partition, and then proceeds to mount the second one. Icons for both partitions are visible on the desktop, and in thunar. I'm using xfce 4.6, and exo-mountopt from AUR.
It didn't behave this way before switching to hal-easy, and while I was using hal-easy. What could be going on here? How can I fix it?
Last edited by TiZ (2009-09-23 19:35:37)

Answer 1

I found a way to work around this problem.
Create /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules, or if you already have it, add this:
# Ignore iPod's first partition
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb" ATTRS{product}=="Rockbox media player" KERNEL=="sd?1" OPTIONS+="ignore_device last_rule"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb" ATTRS{product}=="iPod" KERNEL=="sd?1" OPTIONS+="ignore_device last_rule"
This covers iPods with both Apple OS and Rockbox. After making it, the icon for the system partition will still be on the desktop. Just log out and log back in and it will disappear.
And if you get nitpicky about the volume label being all-caps like I do, you can make /etc/hal/fdi/policy/05-labels.fdi and then restart hal:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="volume.label" string="TIZPOD">
<merge key="volume.label" type="string">TiZPod</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Unfortunately, these are all only work-arounds for behavior that was not exhibited before... as for when it changed, I can't remember for the life of me. I'd rather not have to use work-arounds, but they're working. I've marked the thread as "triaged" instead of "solved" because the problem's not fixed, just worked around.
Now I'd like to figure out how to get my iPod icon back instead of the boring hard drive icon when I use Rockbox USB, but I'm sure I can just google around for that.
Last edited by TiZ (2009-09-23 19:38:39)