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Description of problem: Rhythmbox doesn't recognize my iPhone; when I click 'Open Rhythmbox Music Player' in Nautilus, it opens, but does not display any iPhone connection at all. The iPod plugin is installed and enabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.90.1 (Fedora 15 YUM repo) How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plug in iPhone 2. After Nautilus opens to reveal contents, click on 'Open Rhythmbox Music Player' Actual results: Rhythmbox starts but doesn't see iPhone Expected results: Rhythmbox starts and displays iPhone
Came across this bug while researching why my iphone stopped showing up in rhythmbox after upgrading from fc14 to fc15. I'm neither a gvfs nor rhythmbox expert but had a look under gdb and found a simple solution to my problem (and perhaps yours): sudo modprobe fuse cd /tmp && /usr/libexec/gvfsd -r & attach iphone and open rhythmbox as normal The problem seems to be that fc15 did away with the 'fuse' group to grant permission to /dev/fuse and instead defaults to perms 'root:root 0600' without the fuse module loaded, and 'root:root 0666' with the module loaded. Under a clean fc15 install though, fuse doesn't load automatically so isn't available when the user logs in and gvfsd probes for fuse support (by trying to mount $HOME/.gvfs). End result is that fuse support in gvfs is disabled (fuse_available == false) and calls like 'g_file_get_path (root)' in rb_ipod_helpers_get_itunesdb_path() get short-circuited to return NULL. Restarting gvfsd after loading the fuse module seems to fix this. It appears that these days the more permanent fix is something like the below to autoload fuse on boot: echo "fuse" | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/fuse.conf Which gets picked up by systemd somewhere long before the user logs in and gvfsd starts. Anyway, perhaps this is indeed the problem you're having, perhaps not. Hopefully it saves someone else a few hours of debugging regardless ;) My versions of various related packages at the time of testing this: gvfs-1.8.2-1.fc15.x86_64 gvfs-fuse-1.8.2-1.fc15.x86_64 gvfs-afc-1.8.2-1.fc15.x86_64 rhythmbox-2.90.1-10.git20110502.fc15.x86_64 libgpod-0.8.0-9.fc15.x86_64 ifuse-1.1.1-2.fc15.x86_64 btw- probably a gvfs bug that if the fuse module is loaded between when gvfsd is started and an iphone is plugged in, it appears to happily mount the device on $HOME/.gvfs/iphone (or whatever), oblivious to the fact that $HOME/.gvfs was never mounted (although the directory was created if it didn't exist prior) during the initial gvfsd startup. Didn't dig into this much beyond the fact that calling g_file_get_path() on the iphone mount returns NULL and mucks up the rhythmbox device detection.
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