More specifically, I was able to successfully pair the phone. It took a couple of iterations (entering password on phone, etc.). The problem seemed to be lockdownd when trying to mount:
$ ifuse /media/iPhone/ Failed to connect to lockdownd service on the device. Try again. If it still fails try rebooting your device. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libimobiledevice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623666 Title: iOS device contents not displayed in Ubuntu Status in Libimobiledevice: Fix Released Status in gnutls28 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in libimobiledevice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Plug in iOS device, and it doesn't show the documents on it. Please package the recent fix in libimobiledevice*: Vauge discussion that mentions using the latest git HEAD*: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/327 *This discussion is quite vague. One comment points out "iOS 10 devices don't allow SSLv3 anymore but require at least TLSv1", but not how or if that has been fixed in libimobiledevice git HEAD. This ppa packages the git version and may resolve the issue: https://launchpad.net/~martin-salbaba/+archive/ubuntu/ppa+libimobiledevice/+packages There are several other upstream reports related to this problem. Partial success patch (idevicepair only) trying to keep GnuTLS: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/issues/413 Failure with GnuTLS, Success with OpenSSL: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/issues/145 Ubuntu packages libimobiledevice with "--disable-openssl": https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse/issues/32 Duplicate bug 1638177 suggests to repackage libimobiledevice using OpenSSL to avoid this problem, as per comment 27 below. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libimobiledevice/+bug/1623666/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
