Hello Sir,
cydia is Crashing.
when will it become ok?
Thank you sir.

Twitter updates?

is this similar to what happened on july 18?

Same here. Glad I didn’t start the whole restore process. Will stay put for updates.

Yeah it works, I deleted the 3 zodttd file and working cydia =D

if you want a temporary fix just ssh too /etc/apt/sources.list.d and rename the zodttd.list… later, when everything is fixed you can name it back.

Worked like a champ! Thanks.

For those, like me, who do not have OpenSSH installed, is there, or is there likely to be, any other solution short of restoring?

Wondering the same thing!
Using blackra1n on 3.1.2, because of this I have no access to the right folders through iPhoneBrowser, no openSSH, and so on! Now what? Would restoring help? As it would reinstall cydia, and not the “problematic package” according to KennyTM~, who says the problematic package has been removed. Is this true?

Should I wait?

Using blackra1n on 3.1.2, 3GS. no openSSH, no WinSCP. I have only winterboard + mobile terminal + SBsettings + lockinfo + MXtube + sms helper .

what will happen for those who choose to wait?

Either SSH or MobileTerminal is OK, but for MT you first need to login as root using “su”:

su
# enter root password e.g. alpine
apt-get update

For those who cant SSH, install a called DiskAid, then go through it that way. You may need to install Rock first.

DiskAid works. JUST Done it on mine. Peeps use it if you want cydia

I’dont see DiskAid in Rock, I found DiskAgent, this is it?

Since I have Rock installed I can just unistall the zotdd source? will this fix Cydia?

Ok, using Rock I unistalled “zotdd source” and Cydia is workong again!

monoxide, if you read the text of the article here this problem was caused by zodttd source.
there is no problem with bigboss source at this time.

I mean “working again!

lola1889 : wrong step, ROCK works OK and even if it sits there and you don’t use it is allways a backup tool, it saved my day before I went into restoring, just check an airplane instrument panel: it allways has at least two of the same.
Open SSH?:Even if you had it you need to know how to use it, I don’t.

lola1889:Sorry but I gave you all my knowledge aboaut this issue, you can either wait for Cydia to fix it or rejailbreak and as long as we are comunicating I can tell you I found the real solution for the Push ($5.99) and YouTube problems:
“the package “Pushfix 2.0″. Instructions for adding the source are at http://cydia.pushfix.info/ as well.

lola: Sorry I don’t know the answer but if you can wait do it for at least 24 hours

Yeah Cydia crashed on me this morning so I figured I would reboot to attempt to determine the problem and then I was stuck at the Apple logo. 3 Restores and 2 jailbreaks later, it’s finally working.

Thanks man…
helped alot

Luckily I have rockyourphone installed. I removed zod’s repo via the rock and cydia is up and running

As I said before ROCK is good and it works and actually much faster than Cydia, so if you can have the options, why not have both of them.
Now if you read the Dev-Team blog you will see the opinion of this Confucious (maybe confunded)guy which is very radical against Rock without any reasonable explanation except he gives much more complicated solutions to the problem.

If youhave Rock installed, go to manage and delete his repo, then start Cydia and re add the repo.

I used the same method. Only I used iFile to delete the same three bad zodttd sources and then respring in SB Settings and then open Cydia and you are good to go. No computer needed.
iFile>var>lib>apt>list>edit>check the three sources from zodttd delete them, respring open
cydia.

This worked like a charm! cydia pulled right up with no crash!

my cydia has also crashed. I have diskaid and iphonexplorer but cannot access the root files as I didnt install some patch, jailbroken using blackra1n.

what should I do next?

If you still have the blackra1n app, you can install rock with that, and somehow fix it through that. Or you could do what I did, sync/backup your iPhone so you don’t lose anything, then restore and rejailbreak. Just rain with blackra1n and reinstall cydia, when updating the sources, cancel, then cydia should prompt for an update (or not, I dunno, it did for me!). At least the new version removes the bad source. So it should work properly now.

All this solutions are only who has SSH or access to root. I recently jailbroke the phone and do not have ssh installed. Do I need to wait for the actual solution or this is it, Restore? Please advise

Update 1 – didn’t work. Don’t know if it maybe doesn’t work on Windows 7.

Update 2 – wasn’t working at first. Went into Rock (thank god I installed that) and installed any APT 0.7 that I didn’t have installed. Then, back into Terminal and voila!

Ruben,

tried but the “non sufficient privileges” screen came up…even with option trashing

pls advise

thks

CER

IF you follow the link in Update #1, you will find some alternative fixes/solutions, some include hooking with the usb cable to a pc and revmonig files this way. Cydia will not fix itself, you will need to take some action.

I found an easy fix to that crashing issue. I have 3 iphones. Two of them are 3GS and one 3g. As long as they are runing 3.x.x firmware this will work.

Shh in to you iphone and go to etc/apt/sources.list.d

Then DELETE file “zodttd.list”. That is the ZodTTD repository file. After that reboot the iphone. Then you can run Cydia as usual. Once in Cydia manually add the ZodTTD repository and thats it. All fixed up. :D

What do i do when my iphone lock-up after installing a cydia app. The apple logo just stays on the screen. i tried rebooting and it does the same thing.

Hi all.
I’m no expert when it comes to all this but cydia didnt crash on my phone even though the repo was there. I deleted it just in case. Is there an explanation for this? Shouldn’t this have affected all the jailbroken iphones w cydia installed?

never mind i guess i should have read comment 49 before posting.
thx

As mentioned earlier, I don’t have SSH installed, so no point hookingup to PC as I will not have access to /var or /root directory.
I am just waiting for the automatic fix as its been mentioned in red color by Optimo “You should NOT need to restore your firmware to fix this problem. Please have patience, a fix is being worked on”…
So do we wait for the fix? Please advise Optimo!!! or please post if we need to have restore option only.

I have now fixed a total of 13 phones and 6 itouches using iFile. No computer needed. Check the post above.

Is it possible to get ifile after cydia won’t work? I don’t have it atm…

Hi Guys, you can use iphone browser 1.9.3 from google search if you don’t have ssh,ifile or mobile terminal. Browse to /var/lib/apt/lists/
Delete all cydia.zodttd-com_repo_cydia_dists_stable_main_binary-iphoneos-arm_Packages.

follow the link http://thebigboss.org/2009/07/18/cydia-crashing-fix-for-july-18th/

you pluginj your phone to the mac/pc and delete the files using the usb cables

Ok so I jailbroke using blackrain so I can’t use diskaid. I don’t have rock, ssh , icy, or terminal. What do I do?

Another alternative.. u may try iphoneexplorer or ifunbox. Hope it work.
Mine is 3gs running 3.0.1

Did the deleting of the zodttd files with rock using disk aid took 30 seconds or so to load then it worked thanks for your help

I have 2 Iphones running Cydia but only one is crashing, My 3gs, I’m really not good at understanding what I need to due to fix this, Can someone please help guide me through this, Thank you

There seem to be a lot of pple here who have jailbroken iphones(3.1.2) using blackra1n, but who don’t have ssh, diskaid, iphonebrowser or any usb filesytem browser because they weren’t able to get the afc2add required to run those programs. Are there any solutions for all us people in that situation, other then restore and re-jailbreak? Can you get the afc2add from any source other than cydia? Please help!

IFile is safer and easier to use than SSH

I just started…. could you help me with updating the phone or should i wait awhile?

I found another way for all the people who have not downloaded any of the above mentioned apps before the cydia crash. Get “Phoneview”, open the folders to find the corrupted files and delete them. Thats all. For the future I do recommend to have at least terminal installed just in case Cydia crashes again-

aww, I have a pc, it needs mac

try using touch copy to locate the corrupted files, delete them, and cydia should work. touch copy has a 15 day free trial. use it from you computer.

Maybe try a DFU mode restore

Edit:

I retired something else and got it working again.

You only need to delete the zoddtd files

I din’t think it will work until the corrupted files are deleted. Of course, you may have a completely different problem. Try using touch copy to delete the files if you use PC.

Ok so I got diskaid for my mac, but it won’t let me access the root folder. I hear this is from jailbreaking with blackrain. Is there a way to fix this and give me access from my computer without a restore/ rejailbreak? I don’t have mobile terminal or anything installed on my phone so I think this is my last option. And if I just leave it will Cydia eventually fix itself?

For Jayson and Adam: There is one other method you may like to try..”iFile”. Obviously you can’t use Cydia to download it so get the .deb file from the net eg (http://ipod-touch-max.ru/cydia/index.php?cat=package&id=4176. I believe you may have to pay for it but it is well worth it I promise. Follow the instructions to transfer it to your iphone. I’m assuming here that you can access and use WinSCP or similar to tranfer and run it? Once it’s on the iphone with a bit of luck you may be able to access and delete the Cydia files that are causing the problem. (Keep the Partial sub folder). Bon chance!

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I’m not sure why this is happening but every time I try to open Cydia it crashes and goes back to the springboard, I did not install SSH nor ifile, is there a way I can rectify this problem? also if I do a reboot on my iphone will it automatically update to 4.0 and/or will my Itunes update to 9.2?

Iphone 3g
3.1.3
05.12.01 firmware
T-Mobile

PLs help me to restore z oreginal iphone app source adding to my iphone or if u can tell me how can I adding my self thank you

3.1.3 spirit jailbreak.