Description of problem: since Fedora 14, amarok doesn't recognize mp3-device using MTP protocol although "libmtp" is installed. Installing "libmtp-hal" (and restarting Fedora - or the appropriate service) fixes the problem. => libmtp-hal should be a dependency of amarok (and maybe of rhythmbox, ... ? - not tested) as "libmtp" is. Additional info: This was not a problem with Fedora 13 - but "libmtp-hal" is a new package since Fedora 14. Maybe "libmtp-hal" was integrated in libmtp package before ?
Adding Bastien, he did break out the libmtp-hal package. AFAIK this is beacause HAL must die so unless you need it for some specific program (like Amarok...) the HAL portions of libmtp really shouldn't be installed. The real solution if I know things right, is to rewrite Amarok to use libudev instead of HAL, and the short term solution is to add libmtp-hal to Amarok:s Requires:
OK, I have to say however, that making a subpkg for but a single file, %{_datadir}/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players-libmtp.fdi seems quite on the silly side, but what's done is done. I'll go ahead and just add the dep to f14's amarok builds.
What's the status of this in Rawhide?
Fwiw, the dep was added to amarok only for f14, if that matters any.
amarok-2.4.0-1.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/amarok-2.4.0-1.fc14
amarok-2.4.0-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update amarok'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/amarok-2.4.0-1.fc14
OK, I have tested it from the updates-testing repo: libmtp-hal is correctly installed as a dependency and amarok works fine. Thanks.
amarok-2.4.0-1.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.