Hi

After installing some apps (cant remember exactly what apps) "Categories" didnt work anymore. SpringBoards restarts itself endlessly until the iphone hangs completely. Since i have ssh access, i was able to remove the SpringBoard launcher from System/Library/LaunchDaemons. Now the iPhone doesnt hang after some minutes, but since it doesnt start SpringBoard it is not functional too ... :-/

How can i install / update stuff (especially Springboard/Categories ) via ssh-shell ? How can i remove Software (e.g. Categories ...) ?

Thanks for any Hints, im lost without the iPhone ...

Sebastian.

you might as well restore to get your stuff back in order....

nah, i wanna fix it. I got a little bit further:

I removed BigBoss/hiddenicons.txt from mobiles' config, removed 'Categories' from /var/mobile/Library and started SpringBoard by hand. Then i could see a lot of interesting logs:

Code:

2008-04-17 21:41:32.684 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:41:32.703 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:41:33.868 SpringBoard[109:d03] SpringBoard expects a bundle at /Applications/Config.app
2008-04-17 21:41:34.504 SpringBoard[109:d03] SpringBoard expects a bundle at /Applications/Musik.app
2008-04-17 21:41:34.573 SpringBoard[109:d03] SpringBoard expects a bundle at /Applications/Standard.app
2008-04-17 21:41:36.182 SpringBoard[109:d03] -[<LKLayer 0x1a5240> display]: Ignoring bogus layer size (0.000000, 0.000000)
2008-04-17 21:41:36.907 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:41:37.378 SpringBoard[109:d03] BT: BTLocalDeviceGetPairedDevices returned 0 devices
2008-04-17 21:41:37.771 SpringBoard[109:d03] Couldn't get IAP TV out settings
error compiling query "SELECT value FROM _SqliteDatabaseProperties WHERE key = ?;": no such table: _SqliteDatabaseProperties
2008-04-17 21:41:39.055 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:41:39.075 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
error compiling query "SELECT value FROM _SqliteDatabaseProperties WHERE key = ?;": no such table: _SqliteDatabaseProperties
2008-04-17 21:41:49.115 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:41:49.126 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:42:21.365 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:42:21.385 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:42:31.850 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:42:32.257 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0
2008-04-17 21:42:38.152 SpringBoard[109:d03] lockdown says the device is: [FactoryActivated], state is 0

What messages are expected? What about the sqlite error?

Interesting is that my data seems to be gone (calendar is empty)

Does this help anyone in helping me ??

TIA for any hints ...

Bastl

Title is wrong wrong wrong

Update: SInce i started SpringBoard as root, some errors are expected (empty database e.g.)

When i start SpringBoard after "su mobile" i get:

2008-04-17 22:07:28.067 SpringBoard[224:d03] Couldn't created shared memory GSCapabilities, Permission denied
zsh: bus error /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/SpringBoard

Is that expected?

BTW: Is this the right forum ??

Seb.

Ok, finally im on the right track: the file

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.SpringBoard.plist

seems to be corrupted. All other files are xml, this one contains binary garbage ...

Since i can start SpringBoard as root painlessly, it seems the Program is ok only the launcher is corrupted. Could someone post that file ??

Thanks alot.

I seem to have exactly the same problem. Assuming SpringBoard's .plist file is meant to contain the same type of XML as the others, mine is also corrupt.

I was wondering - could there be a backup copy stored by iTunes? If so, where on a Mac would it be stored?


I'm going to check what common elements there are in these plist files to see if I can reconstruct SpringBoard's one.

Hmm, on closer inspection, I don't think that's going to work.

Incidentally, I can't seem to do a restore. Neither ZiPhone nor iTunes see the iPhone when I plug it in.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>MachServices</key>
        <dict>
                <key>com.apple.springboard.migserver</key>
                <true />
        </dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.apple.SpringBoard</string>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false />
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/SpringBoard</string>
        </array>
        <key>ServiceIPC</key>
        <false />
</dict>
</plist>

guys, i have this problem for a long time too,
i found out that there is a 7x limits of applications installed

Maybe u have used the command passwd...