I realise it's upstream, but might be useful to know it is 2016 and still hitting this regularly, with an iphone 4s plugged in while RB is open.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363226 Title: claims ipod needs initialization Status in Rhythmbox: New Status in rhythmbox package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: rhythmbox Every time I connect my iPod I'm greeted with a prompt stating: "Do you want to initialize your iPod? Rhythmbox has detected a device that is probably an uninitialised or corrupted iPod. It must be initialised before Rhythmbox can use it, but this will destroy any song metadata already present. If you wish Rhythmbox to initialise the iPod, please fill in the information below. If the device is not an iPod, or you do not wish to initialise it, please click cancel." The ironic bit is that while this prompt is present Rhythmbox proceeds to play audio from the iPod without issue. I have added an ext3 partition to the iPod, but this partition has been present during the iPod's use with previous releases and never caused a problem such as this. $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512) Disk /dev/sdb: 8120 MB, 8120172544 bytes 250 heads, 62 sectors/track, 255 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15500 * 2048 = 31744000 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 3 92876 0 Empty /dev/sdb2 4 215 6572000 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sdb3 216 255 1240000 83 Linux $ mount | grep sdb /dev/sdb2 on /media/iPod type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush) /dev/sdb3 on /media/key-backup type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal Package: rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu4 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: rhythmbox Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox/+bug/363226/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
