Error when attempting to transfer music to iPhone 4

[Ryan Steele]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I plugged in my iPhone 4 running iOS 4.0.2 and attempted to drag and drop music to it. I got an error dialog with the following message:

Error while getting peer-to-peer dbus connection: The name :1.225 was not provided by any .service files

This error appeared once for each track I attempted to drag and drop.

Upon closing and re-opening Rhythmbox, the problem went away.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.8-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.43-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 5 09:48:40 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

can you reproduce this everytime? may you tell us a few easy steps in order to reproduce the bug? thanks.

[Morgan GERMAIN (morgan-germain)]

I heard that it was not possible to transfer music to iPhone 4 with Lucid Lynx.

For me, i have not seen this crash. In rhythmbox, you can drag & drop music to your iphone, synchronization starts but your iPhone remains empty.

It is not a rhythmbox problem, it is a known limitation of libimobiledevice.

On www.libimobiledevice.org, you can see that news

23.08.2010: First attempt at iOS 4 music synchronization with an iPhone 4 has succeeded. The new hash algorythm is reversed. Some time will pass though to clean it up and make iPhone 4 and iPad owners happy again.

In Ubuntu 10.10, libimobiledevice version is 1.0.1, so we can never have it work, but if we could have 1.0.2, music sync will work with all iOS versions. iPhone 4 case seems to be different.

Who should be able to test libimobiledevice-1.0.2 with an iPhone 4 to see if it make sense to upgrade maverick to 1.0.2 ?

[Morgan GERMAIN (morgan-germain)]

S'cuse me, I was wrong. This topic says that versions >1.0.2 maybe work but NOT the 1.0.2

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=54306#p318458

iPhone 3G/3GS with iOS 3.x and 4.x works well but not iPhone 4. We should use latest libimobiledevice's sources to see if it can be used in ubuntu 10.10 or later in 11.04.

If it is to late for 10.10 release, then i'm sure that Paul McEnery will integrate it in its PPA :

  https://launchpad.net/~pmcenery/+archive/ppa

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

I get this problem too with my iPod touch 3G. I'm not sure it happens every time, but it's pretty often.
Sometimes I've unenabled the iPod plugin, restarted Rhythmbox, and enabled the plugin to get it working.
See this thread on the forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1467575

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Morgan GERMAIN (morgan-germain)]

natty includes libimobiledevices 1.0.4 which should work with iPhone 4 and close this issue