Comments on: Mount iPhone in Linux using USB (ifuse, libiphone)

By: Amain

Amain — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:49:40 +0000

@Uwe Brauer: see http://libiphone.lighthouseapp.com/projects/27916-libiphone/tickets for tickets on libiphone. The iPod Touch should work. So probably some permission problem prevents you from using it.

By: Amain

Amain — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:47:30 +0000

@david: see http://libiphone.lighthouseapp.com/projects/27916/tickets/67-udev-rules-for-ubuntu-disable-access-for-non-root-users and maybe browse some more in the ticket system for libiphone. It should give more pointers on how to get udev / hal / usbmuxd / fuse / ifuse etc to work together.

By: Amain

Amain — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:40:51 +0000

libiphone supports the iPhone 3G S since end of June. See http://libiphone.lighthouseapp.com/projects/27916/tickets/52-patch-add-support-for-iphone-3gs

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:46:02 +0000

hi,
this does not work with iphone 3g s, every time I try to mount it it says no iphone found and when hal tries to automout it I am getting error saying could not claim usb camera etc.

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:37:08 +0000

I have the same permission problems with the usb-dev.
Mine shows out like /dev/bus/usb/002/012
after each unmount replug it increments the final digit
So I can never cach up with chown user:plugdev /dev/bus/usb/*.
Frustating .. has to be a way. Right?

By: Uwe Brauer

Uwe Brauer — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:06:44 +0000

Hello

I followed your instructions but I obtain when I try to mount
sudo mount none -t fuse.ifuse /iphpone/
No iPhone found, is it connected?
If it is make sure that your user has permissions to access the raw usb device.
If you’re still having issues try unplugging the device and reconnecting it.

it is a ipod touch I must add and it is connected
what can I do?

By: Amain

Amain — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:28:07 +0000

Sorry to hear that things are not working yet. The last thing I can help you with is showing you the access rights on my ubuntu system:

lsusb | grep Appl
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ac:1292 Apple, Inc.

ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/003
crw-rw-r–+ 1 root plugdev 189, 2 2009-07-24 22:21 /dev/bus/usb/001/003

id
uid=xxx gid=xxx groepen=…(plugdev),…(fuse)…

ls -l /dev/fuse
crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root fuse 10, 229 2009-07-24 23:35 /dev/fuse

ls -laR /dev/usbmux/
/dev/usbmux/:
totaal 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2009-07-24 22:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4000 2009-07-24 22:23 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2009-07-24 22:23 7fc71cf43355d53b36be6b601edb982b34aedd7e

/dev/usbmux/7fc71cf43355d53b36be6b601edb982b34aedd7e:
totaal 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2009-07-24 22:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2009-07-24 22:23 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-07-24 22:23 in -> ../../usbdev1.5_ep85
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-07-24 22:23 out -> ../../usbdev1.5_ep04

ls -l /bin/fusermount
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 22064 2009-03-05 18:42 /bin/fusermount
(notice suidbit)

ls -l /sbin/mount.fuse.ifuse
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14000 2009-07-03 07:46 /sbin/mount.fuse.ifuse

Good luck,

Amain

By: Kriegerd

Kriegerd — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:05:03 +0000

I have still to compile from svn, I will try it tonight. I have read the README file and nothing works. I ran the strace command. From what I can tell I don’t have access to the usb device, here’s a copy of some of the output:

open(“/dev/bus/usb/006/002″, O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
open(“/dev/bus/usb/006/002″, O_RDONLY) = 3
ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_IOCTL, 0xbfa67610) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
close(3) = 0
open(“/dev/bus/usb/006/001″, O_RDWR) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
open(“/dev/bus/usb/006/001″, O_RDONLY) = 3
ioctl(3, USBDEVFS_IOCTL, 0xbfa67610) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
close(3)

I’m sorry to bother you again.. if you have any idea on how to solve this I really appreciate it.

Thanx again.
Cheers

By: Amain

Amain — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:15:57 +0000

No problem. For the time being you could use sudo to access the device as a normal user. It’s probably an access rights problem. Does your user have rights to access the raw usb-dev and is member of the ifuse group? On ubuntu, my user is in the groups: plugdev and fuse. Don’t forget to login again if you changed groups. Did you already read /usr/share/doc/ifuse/README, as I mentioned in the post? I think it contains all the elements to understand how to setup succesfull. Another tip: try strace mount.fuse.ifuse device file mountpoint and see on which file you get an access denied or other problem. Another approach: remove all ifuse packages, and compile from SVN.

By: Kriegerd

Kriegerd — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:29:27 +0000

Hello, thanx for your reply.

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to solve my problem. I have stated my problem on the debian user mailing list. Could you please read it??: http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-user/330816-mounting-iphone-ifuse-user.html

I’m a member of the fuse group and have changed the fuse.conf file with no luck.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanx again.