Main script execution failed on all installs

Griffinaz · 02-21-2008, 10:57 AM

I have searched and cannot find any final answer on this issue. I know that with Customize there is a trick to get it to work however that is not my issue.

I used the "fix" this morning from the NewAttiPhone site to relocate my software to the other partition. Immediately, and I mean within a minute, after doing that I started getting a "Main Script Execution Failed" error when attempting to install anything from Installer.
I have rebooted the phone at least 6 times trying to resolve this (suggested in another posting), I have not installed anything other than that fix today and everything was working fine yesterday so I believe the issue was caused either directly or indirectly by the fix.

I am running 1.1.3 jailbroken (obviously). Other than a restore and try again option, are there any suggestions to fix this?

Griffinaz · 02-21-2008, 12:41 PM

I found the fix on another site. Apparently the out of disk space "fix" I installed changed the permissions and owner of the Installer.app folder. To repair it I had to open Terminal and enter these two lines. Everything works now:

chmod +s Installer.app/Installer
chown -R root:wheel Installer.app

I hope this helps if anyone else has this problem.

Bone · 02-21-2008, 12:48 PM

I wound up just rejailbreaking my phone because of this same problem. LOL I don't even mind the hassel anymore.

Griffinaz · 02-21-2008, 01:52 PM

With the new jailbreak method it isn't anywhere near the problem it used to be. The previous methods made me just dread having problems on the phone.

frankyfingerz · 02-28-2008, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by Griffinaz

I found the fix on another site. Apparently the out of disk space "fix" I installed changed the permissions and owner of the Installer.app folder. To repair it I had to open Terminal and enter these two lines. Everything works now:

chmod +s Installer.app/Installer
chown -R root:wheel Installer.app

I hope this helps if anyone else has this problem.

can you please explain this a little ??

frankyfingerz · 02-29-2008, 08:51 AM

am i really runing out of space? do i really have to install this fix ??

Griffinaz · 02-29-2008, 09:19 AM

The phone is seperated into two different partitions for software on the internal drive. There is a music partition that is very large and there is an operating system partition that is very small. When the phone was designed it was not intended to store additional software on the OS partition. When a phone is jailbroken it opens the drive to installing new software. By default it saves the aftermarket software into the OS partition and after you have installed some large programs you will get a message that your running out of disk space even though you have a lot of room remaining. That means your running out of room in the OS partition.
The "fix" that is out there (several actually) will move your programs to the music partition and then create a link to the os partition. When you then install software it will think it is putting it in the os partition when it is actually saving it to the music side of the drive and you can then install basically 7 gigs or more of software before you start to run out of room.

As far as the instructions in the posting right above your first question, I have a program on my phone called Term-vt100. It is just a terminal emulator that allows commands to be typed on the phone in a "dos" like environment. The commands listed change the permissions and owner of the installer program back to the ones that they should be set to. In my case I installed a piece of software that changed the ownership of those and made it so they wouldnt launch. Typing those two command lines in the terminal changed those settings back.

frankyfingerz · 02-29-2008, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by Griffinaz

The phone is seperated into two different partitions for software on the internal drive. There is a music partition that is very large and there is an operating system partition that is very small. When the phone was designed it was not intended to store additional software on the OS partition. When a phone is jailbroken it opens the drive to installing new software. By default it saves the aftermarket software into the OS partition and after you have installed some large programs you will get a message that your running out of disk space even though you have a lot of room remaining. That means your running out of room in the OS partition.
The "fix" that is out there (several actually) will move your programs to the music partition and then create a link to the os partition. When you then install software it will think it is putting it in the os partition when it is actually saving it to the music side of the drive and you can then install basically 7 gigs or more of software before you start to run out of room.

As far as the instructions in the posting right above your first question, I have a program on my phone called Term-vt100. It is just a terminal emulator that allows commands to be typed on the phone in a "dos" like environment. The commands listed change the permissions and owner of the installer program back to the ones that they should be set to. In my case I installed a piece of software that changed the ownership of those and made it so they wouldnt launch. Typing those two command lines in the terminal changed those settings back.

i restored anyways, but how would i install Term-vt100, when Installer isn't letting me install??

Griffinaz · 02-29-2008, 12:00 PM

If you didnt have term already on your phone you can use WinSCP on your PC and open a terminal window within that (when connected to the phone) and you can run the commands that way as well.

sacflava · 03-06-2008, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by Griffinaz

If you didnt have term already on your phone you can use WinSCP on your PC and open a terminal window within that (when connected to the phone) and you can run the commands that way as well.

Griffinaz..I tried to change the permissions using the terminal in WinSCP but I kept getting an error that the file or folder does not exist. I don't really want to have to restore because I installed quite a few apps already.