iPhone no longer mounting after iOS 4.2 upgrade

[migmruiz]

If you experienced this, please go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ce/+bug/685752 and mark that this Bug affects you.

[migmruiz]

I had to run that too

The PPA by itself didn't work for me. I then had to run:

idevicepair unpair
idevicepair pair
idevicepair validate

Got the answer from the following Bug Reports

http://libiphone.lighthouseapp.com/p...#ticket-183-13

http://libiphone.lighthouseapp.com/p...#ticket-181-10

just remembering: to do that you need to have libimobiledevice-utils installed, if you don't have it

sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils

[impresionist]

just remembering: to do that you need to have libimobiledevice-utils installed, if you don't have it

sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils

Hello,
In Lucid after installing the libimobiledevice-utils no any change, the OS can't mount the Iphone 3GS after upgrading to 4.2.1... and with
lsusb -- > it's found as Bus 001 Device 013: ID 05ac:1294 Apple, Inc. iPhone 3GS ... but no way to mount it...

And in Ubuntu 10.10 I get:

error: DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

Like always, it's only problems with Iphone, each two months for each upgrade...

[eddieray7]

I manually installed the PPA packages mentioned earlier (libimobiledevice and libimobiledevice-utils) v1.0.4 on Maverick, disconnected the phone (3GS), reconnected it and it worked first try.

[migmruiz]

Hello,
... after installing the libimobiledevice-utils no any change, the OS can't mount the Iphone 3GS after upgrading to 4.2.1...

Have you installed the ppa version?

If you did so, have you tried to run

idevicepair unpair
idevicepair pair
idevicepair validate

??

well.. again, that worked for me

[migmruiz]

Step-by-step workaround

Add the ppa to your repos

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa

then update and upgrade your packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

That worked for some people,
if it DIDN'T for you, install libimobiledevice-utils

sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils

and then run from the command-line

idevicepair unpair
idevicepair pair
idevicepair validate

[ThatBum]

libimobiledevice-utils is cool. You can see realtime dmesg output of the iDevice with idevicesyslog, see all sorts of config parameters and things with ideviceinfo, and even backup and restore the whole iDevice with idevicebackup. Neat stuff.

I tried some operations with my iPhone 3G. Everything works, I can mount it, read music from it, and sync music to it. I didn't have to unpair and pair, I just had to install libimobiledevice 1.0.4. Maybe my machine is magical or something...

[Random8]

How likely is it that this will not be resolved in future updates?

Should we all go with the VM Solution?

[Random8]

And I love for for this post. Why could none of all the other forms I've read put it so clearly?

[dorjem]

migmruiz (and everyone else on this thread) many thanks for sharing your time and expertise.

Had same problem here
Ubuntu 10.04 / iPhone 3GS running iOS 4.2.1
and suddenly couldn't connect to the phone at all

did the applications / accessories / terminal
lsusb
and could see the Apple device connected

But it never showed up on the desktop (didn't mount in other words)

I used applications / Ubuntu software centre
to install iFuse

but pluging in my iPhone still didn't show on the desktop

In the terminal window I did the following to get the libimobile files installed (this took a while, to get the syntax etc right. You'll need to enter the password for a user with ROOT access)

sudo add-apt-repository ppamcenery/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

but there was a message that some packages had been kept back

So I read
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=228788

Which told me I should try

sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
This updated the packages which had been kept back (some of which were GVFS related)

Anyway the really useful page I got to was

http://www.taranfx.com/sync-iphone-linux

I did steps 1 2 3 4 then rebooted as it instructs in 5
I forgot to unplug my iPhone
And hey presto when I logged in here was my iPhone on the desktop asking me what I wanted to do open Fspot (images) open Rythmbox (music) blah blah

So I'm thrilled and hope others find this useful too. And it only took 2 and a half hours

Many thanks to all of you here, cannonical and everyone for the ubuntu you show by sharing