According to a songbird forum, it's because the iPod isn't mounted at
the right place. Here is a work around FIX, from the forum:
"It mainly involves using the terminal to unmount and remount the
device to another directory. I believe the problems we are having is due
to the migration from udev to devkit in ubuntu karmic.
(First EJECT your iPod, then...) For example your ipod is the block
device /dev/sdb1 so I would do the following.
sudo -i #(this drops you into a root shell)
mkdir /mnt/ipod #(you can use any directory really but this is easy to
remember.)
mount -t vfat -o rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8=1,dmask=0077,flush /dev/sdb1
/mnt/ipod
(this mounts a vfat filesystem on device /dev/sdb1 to directory
/mnt/ipod owned by the user and group who's ID number is 1000, utf8
support is enabled and all changes are written to disk immediately.
Substitute 1000 for the UID and GID of your user and the group your user
is in)"
After doing this, gtkpod correctly reconize and load the ipod.
source:
http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/ipod_not_connecting_on_ubuntu_karmic_9_10
UPDATE: I'm also tested a second FIX: I added another gtkpod ipod
repository, targeted to the correct mount point of the ipod. This also
worked BUT I have to manually hit the "Load iPod" on gtkpod to make this
easier fix work.
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iPod mounts as a normal disk in Karmic (gtkpod/others won't list the iPod),
fine in Jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446035
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