Re: Fw: Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 22:16:17 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote:
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> From: Alejandro Salas
> To: Florian Kulzer
> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 3:34:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Mounting Iphone with Ifuse as User

Note: I never saw this message due to the aggressive spam filtering that
I have to apply to incoming mail for my "+debian" address.

> From: Florian Kulzer, Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 2:34:43 PM
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 14:27:38 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:32:10 -0700, Alejandro Salas wrote:
> > > > > The fuse group should have been created by the post-installation script
> > > > > of the fuse-utils package. 
> > > > >
> > > > >>                                     I created it and added my user to the group.
> > > > >> I still get the same error message. :-(. Any ideas?

[...]

> > I don't see anything wrong here; it looks like both udev and HAL have
> > done exactly what they were supposed to be doing.
> > 
> > What output do you get from:
> > 
> > ls -l /dev/fuse
> > 
> > ls -l /dev/bus/usb/*
> 
> Here they are:
> 
> ls -l /dev/fuse 
> crw-rw---- 1 root fuse 10, 229 2009-07-08 10:41 /dev/fuse
> 
> 
> ls -l /dev/bus/usb/*
> /dev/bus/usb/001:
> total 0
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 0 2009-07-08 06:06 001
> 
> /dev/bus/usb/002:
> total 0
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 128 2009-07-08 06:06 001
> 
> /dev/bus/usb/003:
> total 0
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 256 2009-07-08 06:06 001
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 257 2009-07-08 06:06 002
> 
> /dev/bus/usb/004:
> total 0
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 384 2009-07-08 06:06 001
> 
> /dev/bus/usb/005:
> total 0
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 512 2009-07-08 06:06 001
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 513 2009-07-08 06:06 002
> 
> /dev/bus/usb/006:
> total 0
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 640 2009-07-08 06:06 001
> 
> /dev/bus/usb/007:
> total 0
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 768 2009-07-08 06:06 001
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 770 2009-07-08 15:59 003
> 
> The last entry ('003') appeared only after plugging the iphone to a
> usb port. Everything else remained the same.

That looks OK to me, too. I am afraid you will need someone who actually
uses an iPhone under Linux to help you further. (I do not have an iPhone
myself; I had hoped that I would be able to spot something suspicious in
the general device-plugging behavior but that does not seem to be the
case.)

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |