As many of you know, iPhone is natively supported in Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). All you have to do is just plug in your iphone to your ubuntu. Many readers have reported problems after updating the iPhone to the new iOS 4.2, it does not mount when connected.
In fact, you might get a error like this:
Unable to mount iPhone_ org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply DBus error: MESSAGE DID NOT RECEIVE A REPLY (TIMEOUT MESSAGE BY BUS)
How to Fix it
To correct this problem, open your terminal and copy/paste the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
After this you may have restart your system. Now your iPhone will mount without any errors.
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many thanks
thank you
Thanks, plz tell me what is the “thing” you do.
I wonder you recompile with some changes and make public in your repository but plz tell me some details.
Thanks again..
Best Regards
It worked for me on Ubuntu 10.10 !
Does this work on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS – the Lucid Lynx – released in April 2010 and supported until April 2013!
Yeah it definitely works! it worked in mine…
Awesome. Thanks so much. New to this Ubuntu but love it.
Works for latest version of MINT after Iphone IOS upgrade on 3/14/11.
THANKS!!
i feel so happy
finally i can use my iphone
It works!!! thanks!!!!
Thanks for the iphone fix. copied and pasted the code to terminal worked first time well done thanks again
Ipod Touch version 4.3.3 is not working.Please let us know when you are addressing.Stas
This does NOT work for me.
OS: Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwahl
iPhone G5, IOS 4.3.2
[jailbroken]
Great!! now it works!!
Worked for me, didn’t need to restart.
OS: Maverick
Itouch
i did what you proposed but it stil doesn’t work, i get still te same message : DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus), what do i wrong. i work with ubuntu 11.04
same, i did it in ubuntu 11.04 but still doesnt work using ios 4.2.1, please help!!!
At first when I tried this, it did not resolve the issue – I was still getting the “cannot mount” error messages.
I found I had to clean up some old files in $HOME/.config/libimobiledevice – now it is working!
Many thanks, Ron.
It wasn’t working for me either, but then I erased everything in that folder and it’s finally working like a charm.
Thanks again, mate.
Thank you very much Ron, after deleting the $HOME/.config/libimobiledevice dir now it works on my Ubuntu too