Vitório Sassi

OpenSolaris with iPod

When I start use OpenSolairs last year there are a list with a lot of softwares that just run in Linux. But there are one in special that running just in Windows or Mac, the iTunes. A few months ago I start use the gtkpod, a nice GUI for iPod based in GTK2, but just in Linux.
Talking with Ronaldo last week I just thinking there are some way to port the gtkpod to OpenSolaris. But how??? Well the guys of blastwave port this software and much more! So I just type

$pkg-get -i gtkpod
$pkg-get -i libgpod

But when I started the software there are a error:

$gtkpod
process 1127: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open
"/opt/csw/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
D-Bus not compiled with backtrace support so unable to print a backtrace
Abort (core dumped)

Talking with the group, Edson said that he fix this error in his Mozzila with a symbolic link.

$ln -s /var/lib/dbus/machine-id /opt/csw/var/lib/dbus/machine-id

It's just what I need. I created the link, run the gtkpod and no more error. That's it, now I have a gtkpod running in my 2008.05 and synchronize my iPod


When I plug the iPod the system immediately mount the device

Posted at 06:05PM Jul 01, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun  |  Comments[1]