i experience the same issue with all of the libimobiledevice related utilities; ifuse, imobiledevice, etc...
$ ifuse /media/winston/phone --root Segmentation fault $ sudo cat /var/log/syslog Apr 27 08:17:43 air usbmuxd[4823]: [1] Unexpected command 'ListDevices' received! Apr 27 08:17:43 air usbmuxd[4823]: [1] Unexpected command 'ReadPairRecord' received! Apr 27 08:17:43 air usbmuxd[4823]: [1] Unexpected command 'ReadBUID' received! Apr 27 08:17:43 air kernel: [ 3208.319325] ifuse[5782]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f5fd49b3ada sp 00007fff1f253948 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[7f5fd4932000+1a0000] -or- $ ideviceinfo Segmentation fault $ sudo cat /var/log/syslog Apr 27 08:38:19 air usbmuxd[3558]: [1] Unexpected command 'ListDevices' received! Apr 27 08:38:19 air usbmuxd[3558]: [1] Unexpected command 'ReadPairRecord' received! Apr 27 08:38:19 air usbmuxd[3558]: [1] Unexpected command 'ReadBUID' received! Apr 27 08:38:19 air kernel: [ 329.007488] ideviceinfo[3767]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f3511904ada sp 00007fffe1dd2748 error 4 in libc-2.18.so[7f3511883000+1a0000] i am beginning to suspect a problem with my installed version of usbmuxd but have been unable to build the latest from git. i get errors at the make...but that's for another bug list i suppose -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (-10, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 Versions of packages related to libimobiledevice: ii ifuse 1.1.2-0.1+b2 ii libc6 2.18-4 ii libimobiledevice4 1.1.6+dfsg-1 ii libplist2 1.11-3 ii libusbmuxd2 1.0.9-1 ii usbmuxd 1.0.8-5 iphone 5s running 7.0.6 jailbroken ------------------------------------------------- VFEmail.net - http://www.vfemail.net ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org