Permanent lockdown error -5 on WSL and Ubuntu after rebooting to Ubuntu

[ThatDumbPan]

I have WSL installed on my Windows partition, and I also have regular Ubuntu installed on my machine on another partition. I was using libimobiledevice tools such as idevicerestore perfectly fine on WSL, and I decided I wanted to boot into Ubuntu. So I tried using the same tools there, but each of them said no device was found. lsusb listed the device there fine. Weird, I thought. I could've sworn I remembered using those tools a little while ago (on the Ubuntu partition, not WSL like mentioned earlier, I AM sure I used them fine there), but I wasn't entirely sure. So I tried running usbmuxd -f to find any usbmuxd errors, and found:

[01:11:49.095][1] preflight_worker_handle_device_add: The stored pair record for device (UDID) is invalid. Removing.
[01:11:49.529][1] preflight_worker_handle_device_add: ERROR StartSession failed on device (UDID), lockdown error -5

After a while of trying to fix that I eventually just gave up and decided to use the tools from WSL again. However once I booted into Windows and tried to do the stuff, I was horrified to find that the same problem was happening there too even though I had literally JUST used the tools less than an hour ago. I'm using an iPhone 3GS, and I found the same issue happened with my iPod touch 2nd gen, but didn't happen with my iPhone 13. I also tried using a different laptop with Ubuntu installed and the same thing happened. Tried rebooting the 3GS as well to no avail. Building libimobiledevice and usbmuxd from source didn't work either.

[mexmer]

what version is your ubuntu, what version is ubuntu in WSL, what version of iOS is on affected devices.

i suspect, there might be same issue like with fedora, that you linux installation disabled support for old unsecure ciphers and algorithms, that are required for communication with older iOS.

[ThatDumbPan]

Both Ubuntu and WSL are on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. The iPhone 3GS is on iOS 6.1.6 and the iPod Touch 2nd gen is on iOS 4.2.1. It's so weird to me because I never previously had this problem

[mexmer]

it can happen, when your OS install updates.
-5 is LOCKDOWN_E_SSL_ERROR
there might be also some issued with pairing record, so what you can do is force unpair and pair device again

connect one device at time, and run
idevicepair unpair
then
idevicepair pair

unpair might throw error, you can safely ignore it.

[ThatDumbPan]

I'm not quite sure what I did but it started working on WSL again. Still not Ubuntu though. Both the commands say that no device was found, and using ideviceinfo afterwards yields no results.

[xenos1984]

As I understand the error on Ubuntu still persists? I encounter the same issue with an old iPad A1219 (iOS 5 if I understood the version correctly):

usbmuxd[2369957]: [17:12:44.716][3] Connected to v2.0 device 1 on location 0x1006d with serial number xxx
usbmuxd[2369957]: [17:12:44.834][1] preflight_worker_handle_device_add: The stored pair record for device xxx is invalid. Removing.
usbmuxd[2369957]: [17:12:45.707][1] preflight_worker_handle_device_add: ERROR StartSession failed on device xxx, lockdown error -5

I checked OpenSSL:

│> openssl ciphers -s TLSv1
TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256:TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AECDH-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AECDH-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-NULL-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-NULL-SHA:AECDH-NULL-SHA

│> openssl ciphers -s SSLv3
TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256:TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA:DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA256-SHA:ADH-AES256-SHA:ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA128-SHA:DHE-DSS-CAMELLIA128-SHA:ADH-AES128-SHA:ADH-CAMELLIA128-SHA:AES256-SHA:CAMELLIA256-SHA:AES128-SHA:CAMELLIA128-SHA:NULL-SHA:NULL-MD5

Any ideas what I could try or check?