Libimobiledevice: ERROR: Could not connect to lockdownd: Invalid HostID (-21)
This error appears when a host which has previously been trusted by the device has had its trust reset (Settings: General: Reset: Reset Location & Privacy) and is plugged in again.
The work-around is to delete the existing trust file in the lockdown directory and re-pair.
It would be nice if this could happen automatically.
jhihn
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you can manually call unpair
mexmer
on 12 Mar 2020
Seeing this too and confirmed that deleting the existing trust file in the lockdown directory does force the the re-paring / trust process to work again.
skmsurf
on 10 Jun 2020
You don't have ti nuke it from orbit, you can unpair it, or delete the trust file.
I would like the message changed though (though happy to have a text error string!)
"Invalid HostID" isn't a good description. The HostID is valid, the error is in the relationship.
jhihn
on 10 Jun 2020
@jhihn can you point me to the function that does the unpair action? Or an example of how you would invoke it
skmsurf
on 10 Jun 2020
idevicepair is a binary: implemented here:
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice/blob/master/tools/idevicepair.c
jhihn
on 10 Jun 2020
I had this issue; I don't remember ever resetting the trust. I didn't even have to unpair, calling "idevicepair pair" worked.
lmamane
on 22 Sep 2020
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You don't have ti nuke it from orbit, you can unpair it, or delete the trust file.
I would like the message changed though (though happy to have a text error string!)
"Invalid HostID" isn't a good description. The HostID is valid, the error is in the relationship.