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
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06:05PM Jul 01, 2008
by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun |
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You should take a look at what Alfred is doing with Songbird on OpenSolaris here: http://blogs.sun.com/pengyang/entry/songbird_0_6_on_opensolaris
While it cannot replace gtkpod yet for iPod syncing it could very well replace xmms.
Posted by Vladimir Kotal on Julho 22, 2008 at 09:55 AM BRT #
Thanks for this info, I now have ipod working with opensolaris. I have noticed though that transferring files to ipod is VERY slow, much slower than when using linux, even though I'm using a new laptop with USB2. To give an idea of what I mean, I started to load files onto ipod about 12 hours ago and it has done only 20% of them so far (linux will do all of them on a usb1 machine in a few hours). I presume this is a device driver issue but don't know what to change the default driver to. Any suggestions much appreciated.
Thanks - Paul
here is some output if it helps:
Dec 27 19:03:01 X61 usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 2.0 interface (usbif5ac,1209.config1.0) operating at hi speed (USB 2.x) on USB 2.0 root hub: storage@0, scsa2usb3 at bus address 2
Dec 27 19:03:01 X61 usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] Apple iPod 000A270017FEDEC3
Dec 27 19:03:01 X61 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] scsa2usb3 is /pci@0,0/pci17aa,20ab@1a,7/device@3/storage@0
Dec 27 19:03:01 X61 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci17aa,20ab@1a,7/device@3/storage@0 (scsa2usb3) online
Dec 27 19:03:03 X61 scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd4 at scsa2usb3: target 0 lun 0Dec 27 19:03:03 X61 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd4 is /pci@0,0/pci17aa,20ab@1a,7/device@3/storage@0/disk@0,0
Dec 27 19:03:03 X61 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci17aa,20ab@1a,7/device@3/storage@0/disk@0,0 (sd4) online
Dec 27 19:03:03 X61 genunix: [ID 314293 kern.info] device pci8086,2a02@2(display#0) keeps up device sd@0,0(disk#4), but the latter is not power managed
Dec 27 19:03:03 X61 usba: [ID 723738 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci17aa,20ab@1a,7/device@3 (usb_mid3): can't support ugen for multiple configurations devices that have attached child interface drivers
Dec 27 19:03:03 X61 last message repeated 4 times
Posted by Paul Douglas on Dezembro 28, 2008 at 04:55 AM BRST #