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I have Ubuntu 14.04 on my 4 laptops and IOS 8.0.2 on my 2 apple devices but cannot mount the Iphone Documents
drive anymore since the 8.0.2 update on ANY laptop. I have spent 4 hours researching this issue and trying every
11 amalgamation of:

'idevicepair unpair && idevicepair pair'

and

5 'unplug + unlock + plugin your phone' sequence

all to no avail. When I try to mount it I get the 'unhandled lockdown error (-256)', then a trust this computer prompt, I
confirm the trust message, then I get an 'unhandled lockdown error (-3)' error. I am convinced that this is a true bug that
there is not straightforward solution to yet. I've noticed from searching around that older distros are not that affected but
14.04 users are getting it the most. Anyone get anymore ideas?

iphone ubuntu-14.04

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Coldstar
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did you get any solution? – Vikash Parajuli Nov 17 '14 at 8:19

nope, still going on and I have since upgraded to 14.10 with the same result – Coldstar Nov 17 '14 at 17:05

ya i have the same issue. – Vikash Parajuli Nov 18 '14 at 3:43

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I was able to fix it with libimobiledevice-utils & ifuse

Disconnect your device and install packages.

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sudo apt-get install libimobiledevice-utils ifuse

Restart your system.

Connect your device to your computer and run this command:

idevicepair unpair && idevicepair pair

If you phone shows "Trust computer" messages, select "Yes". By now it should connect.

If it is still throwing error, check if there is a directory var/lib/lockdown . If it is not there, create directory and change
permissions for the directory.

sudo mkdir /var/lib/lockdown

sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/lockdown

Restart your system.

Connect your device and run

idevicepair unpair && idevicepair pair

Now You can access files from your device.

Sources:

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share improve this answer edited Mar 15 '18 at 17:50 answered Jul 8 '15 at 15:12
ChillarAnand
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I solved the error -3 by plugin the iphone, selecting "trust computer", and then typing idevicepair pair

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4 answered Jan 4 '15 at 23:01
jivaros
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Same result on all devices. Freezes and still cannot see the documents drive. I have tried your sequence multiple times already
recently and in the past – Coldstar Jan 6 '15 at 13:10

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I searched for 2 hours and tried several solutions, none of them helped until finally I thought to try sudo with the
unpair / pair commands and it worked instantly:
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sudo idevicepair unpair && sudo idevicepair pair

share improve this answer edited Oct 11 '15 at 0:21 answered Oct 10 '15 at 23:52
spenibus newmintguy
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The solution is simple. Use following commands and next time you plug in your iPhone it would be explored properly.

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 1. Open terminal
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2. fire command sudo idevicepair pair
3. get the <name> from message "SUCCESS: Paired with device <name>"
4. navigate to using cd /var/lib/lockdown
5. Confirm that ".plist" file exists by listing files using ls command
6. remove "<name>.plist" file using sudo rm -f <name>.plist
7. You are done

Let me know in either case for success or failure of solution.

share improve this answer answered Jul 16 '16 at 21:13

smthakur19
152 1 8

Hi. At second step I got an error "Device <HASH> is not paired with this host". Still I can not access the phone – ogok Feb 8 '17 at
9:09

Upon 'sudo idevicepair pair' I get "ERROR: Device 00008027001E70423A22002E returned unhandled error code -5". Any idea
how to fix? – Seub Dec 1 '18 at 18:26

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