bootstrap package fails when Ringtones mis-moved on iPod

[frenky666]

Ok... First of all, great job everyone! And thx a lot to all people on #iPod channel!

So... For start, problem description: After downloading and first part of passes without a problem (clearing some space on first partition). Problems pop up during extraction phase with message: "Scrip execution error" or something like that.

Now, remove Cydia form queue, reinstall BSD subsystem (for OpenSSH functionality), and ssh as root to your Touch. Now type in "su mobile" (no quotes), and then type in "/Applications/Installer.app/Installer". Then start installation on of Cydia on iPod using your fingers, and watch for output in terminal. If you see following line: "ATUnpacker: Could not extract folder, aborting operation!" look at the line above it. That onemight look like this: "ATUnpacker: Extracting folder: Library/Ringtones/ >> /Library/Ringtones".

Ok, if that's the case, there are to possible options, either you don't have that folder, either it's there but with root privileges. What you got to do is simple. Press Ctrl + C on your keyboard - that will exit the installer, then type following line in terminal (ssh): "ls /Library". If you see "Ringtones" folder there, type "exit" and then "rm -rf /Library/Ringtones", then again "su mobile" and "mkdir /Library/Ringtones". This is tried way, and simplest one. The other one is to use "chmod" and ""chown"" commands and that might look like this, while logged in as root: "chown -R media:media /Library/Ringtones", and then "chmod -R 770 /Library/Ringtones". I haven't tried that one but it should work.

Enjoy everyone!

[saurik]

Man, I really need to turn on notifications for this bug tracking. At around the time this was filed, I was scratching my head, wishing I could do more analysis of the issue, but not having anything that failed. I managed to figure it out, but this would have saved me a lot of time ;P.

So, this happens on an iPod touch if you use BossTool? to move your ringtones to the larger partition. Note that you don't have ringtones, so what happens instead is you end up with a broken symlink. That, combined with Installer's issues with symlinks (as mentioned on my site), cause disaster.

This has been fixed in the bootstrap package as of a couple hours after this bug was filed (and like five hours before I posted this ;P).

Thanks for the help!