More work on GNOME:UNSTABLE this morning, resulting in fewer packages now failing to build. This, my friends, is a good thing.

Lunch at our functional local, the Cadland which was lovely.

Wrangling with the iPod and Banshee this afternoon. This is truly weird - it works fine on my laptop but on Amanda's desktop, it fails to transcode from Ogg to MP3. We have (apparently) matching GStreamer installs and yet, no joy. Oh, lazy web: before I report this as an apparent bug, if you can help me solve it, please get in touch.

Related to the iPod issue is a new LifeDrive issue. A while ago, I formatted the drive in it using the LD's own facility for doing so. Since then, hald won't mount it automatically when it's in Drive Mode. It detects that it is a drive and creates a device node (normally /dev/sdb1) but then doesn't actually mount it. This seems to be because the LD now misreports details of the drive. Specifically, the hal value fsusage is empty, when it should be filesystem. Because the device is created, I can then format it from within Linux and when I then enter Drive Mode again, it's detected and mounted. Hooray! But no! The problem is that if I do that, I then can't see it on the LD. Again, any help would be gratefully received (and yes, I've done a Factory reset).