Cydia crashes at startup

[greengho]

after sucessfully installing Cydia, it crashes at startup on 1.1.3 IPhone. Any Idea to solve this Problem?

[Nicolas]

If you are on Windows, go to C:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application data\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter?\MobileDevice?\[your iPhone name]. Note that Application data may be translated (Datos de programa on my machine). If you see any file there containing Cydia, attach it to this ticket. I don't really know if those stackdumps are at all useful to developers; but it will give some more info than "crashes on startup" :)

[Nicolas]

Damn, Trac broke that path on an annoying place :)

C:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application data\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\[your iPhone name]

And, if you have a Mac, I have no idea where it keeps the iPod/iPhone crashlogs.

[saurik]

Yeah. It's actually quite useless to me :(. However: there's a file /tmp/cydia.log. If you can send me that, I can probably fix the problem. If you don't really know how, install iSpit and then go to the phone using your web browser.

[dagoo]

Hi,

Here is the log, i've the same problem :

_assert(0:cache_.Open(progress_, true))@Cydia.mm:1715[-[Database reloadData]] _assert(0:cache_.Open(progress_, true))@Cydia.mm:1715[-[Database reloadData]] _assert(0:cache_.Open(progress_, true))@Cydia.mm:1715[-[Database reloadData]] _assert(0:cache_.Open(progress_, true))@Cydia.mm:1715[-[Database reloadData]] _assert(0:cache_.Open(progress_, true))@Cydia.mm:1715[-[Database reloadData]]

One line per launch try.

[dagoo]

Hi,

Problem solved :

connect in ssh, issue the command :

apt-get install cydia

will update cydia&darwintools

[GrimSage]

This still happens for me. I touch the Cydia icon and it starts to load (Displays the black top and bottom borders) and then crashes back to the springboard. Trided doing the apt-get install cydia and it did not correct the issue. The cydia log file contains nothing.

[blivrail]

Hi there, I am getting the same crash as described as GrimSage?. It appears that the modmyifone.com repository is missing its Packages.gz:

Failed to fetch http://modmyifone.com/repo/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-arm/Packages.gz  Undetermined Error

I get this error with api-get update. With api-get install cydia --fix-missing, I get:

Failed to fetch http://apt.saurik.com/debs/cydia_1.0.2346-33_darwin-arm.deb  MD5Sum mismatch

[blivrail]

The package.gz is back up, and apt-get works as expected. Now, cydia GUI runs again.

[mcgilligan]

I'm getting the same issue but with a different log. My error is as follows: dpkg: parse error, in file /var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 340 package firmware':

error in Version string `': version string is empty

now i tried giving the version a value (since it was blank) and it still crashes (i used 1.0.2 and 1.1.1). I also tried updating with 'apt-get install cydia' still nothing.

I did notice the firmware.sh script that is in the cydia package on the svn and how it searches for the correct fw so i am assuming this has something to do with it.

[GrimSage]

This issue seems to be fixed for me.

iPod Touch 16gb firmware 1.1.3

[saurik]

In general, most of these issues can be fixed by installing the Cydia: Manual Refresh package from Installer, which does an update and a clean and a dist-upgrade. It might not fix the problem immediately, though: some of these issues were caused by a slightly weird Packages file ModMyiFone? had in their repository which interacted badly with an assumption I made in Cydia. When this was fixed, though, Cydia: Manual Refresh could get you back in.

As for the firmware package problem... what does running the command sw_vers report? Does it work?