Bug#532645: rhythmbox: Doesn't see ipod if it's in fstab

[John Goerzen]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 
> Since the migration to gio, rhythmbox apparently needs devices to be
> already mounted *in gvfs* to see it.  However, I don’t know of a daemon
> that can do the job apart from nautilus.  This is a design issue that

I'm running KDE 4, and once I removed it from fstab, it seemed to work
fine.  Amarok also wouldn't auto-detect it if it was in fstab, but it
let me manually specify it, unlike rhythmbox.

> affects non-GNOME users quite badly.  This is probably not something we
> can fix at the Debian level, so I suggest that you talk about it with
> upstream.

I have no idea where the right place to do this is, or how to do so...
can you forward this report, CCing me, or help out in some way?

> 
>> Also, do have gnome-volume-manager installed as documented in README.Debian.
> 
> Thanks for the notice, as this is outdated; gnome-volume-manager still
> handles some devices, but not the mountable ones, which are in the hands
> of nautilus.  I’ll fix the document.

OK.

-- John