I have a white Japanese ipod nano 1st gen 4gb .

Im using fedora 7.

Amoarok can see the ipod but when i try to connect to my ipod i get the message:

Media Device: failed to create lockfile on iPod mounted at /media/iPod: Read-only file system

Could this be because i have a Japanese machine and an English language OS?

Thanks for your help.

Perhaps your ipod is formatted with apple's hfsplus? Writing to this type of filesystem is disabled per default. You could try mount -oremount,rw,force /mountpoint/of/your/ipod if this is the case.

Thank you very much.

That has done the trick.