Doesn't support iOS 8.1 on Ubuntu 14.10

[octoxan]

Gives the error
could not start com.apple.webinspector! success
unable to attach _________ inspector

[cmolina]

Same error on Ubuntu 14.04

[danklassen]

I'm getting the same error message as well... let me know if there is any information that would be helpful to track this down.

Listing devices on :9221
Could not start com.apple.webinspector!: Success
Unable to attach xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx inspector

[pgbross]

For what it's worth, I am getting the same error message on Fedora 21 beta with iPad iOS 8.1.1.
idevicedate and idevice_id -l, both return sensible responses, so it looks like communication is basically sound (the iPad also prompts asking if the connection is trusted).

My library versions are:

  libplist: 1.12-1
  libimobiledevice: 1.1.7-1
  usbmuxd: 1.1.0-2

--p.

[andydavies]

Firefox DevTools uses the proxy for iOS debugging and appear to have it working with iOS8 so it might be worth looking to see what code they've added/changed.

[Afforess]

I had the same problem. I did debugging and it appears to be a problem with the way libimobiledevice is packaged on Ubuntu (I am on 14.10). I removed the package and compiled libimobiledevice from source and the problem went away.

[tmeloliveira]

Hi @Afforess,
I'm still facing the issue, would you be able to share some details of your solution ?

[Afforess]

@tmeloliveira You have to remove the libimobiledevice package, so apt-get purge libimobiledevice* *

To make sure it is removed properly, try starting ios-webkit-debug-proxy, it should crash, as it is missing the dependency. If it crashes, continue:

Clone the source for the libimobiledevice project from here: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

Follow their steps to install. It should install the binaries in /usr/local/lib

Symlink the binaries from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib and try starting the ios-webkit-debug-proxy again.

Note (5-16-2016): Purging libimobiledevice does not seem to be necessary, compiling then creating the symlinks should be sufficient for most users.

The comment of @Afforess is marked as the solution, however, it does not work in my case.
I invoked apt-get purge libimobiledevice* both in Linux Mint Rosa 17.3 and Ubuntu LTS 16.04. In these systems the result was that I could not login to my system once again - some stuff regarding gnome session was deleted during purging, for instance, gnome-session package. Do you know how to prevent that?

[Afforess]

@tommyjs sounds like it purged the entire desktop set of packages, which is bad.

I haven't tried this in a little while. Looking back at what I remember, I think you could get away with leaving the package installed, but overwriting the binaries in /usr/lib with compiled copies. This is sort of a bad practice, but so is packaging libimobiledevice wrong...

I really can't give any better advice off the top of my head. I'll spin up a VM and see if I can toy around with this again. It might have even been fixed in 16.04, who knows.

@Afforess, thank you. You are right that I cannot purge libimobiledevice, because it deletes the entire desktop set of packages and you are right that symlinking binaries from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib resolves the problem.

However, applying this solution causes this problem. I trusted the device a few times and nothing works.
Version of iOS: 8.1.2 (12B440). Any ideas?

[Afforess]

@tommyjs thanks for the update. I edited my previous comment and removed the steps involving purging libimobiledevice, hopefully that prevents future users from falling into the same trap you did.

I didn't see any issues with lockdownd when I did this, but that was because my device was configured without a passcode or touch id. I would suggest disabling both and trying again.

[df257]

Hello, how to remove and rebuild libimobiledevice on window10?