Fixing iPhone Installer.app “Main Script execution failed”

March 22, 2008 (late afternoon)

Finally got around to fixing the iPhone Installer.app “Main Script execution failed” problem.  I was running 1.1.4 and it turned out that the Installer.app somehow had acquired wrong security settings.

My fix:

1: SSH’d into the iPhone

2: Corrected permissions to 755 plus the setuid bit (allowing execution as root)

chmod 4755 /Applications/Installer.app/Installer

3: Corrected owner and group:

chown root:wheel /Applications/Installer.app/Installer

4: Restarted the iPhone and tapped Installer.app

5: Now, it’s working great!

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posted in: iPhone Unix
Slice said:
March 22, 2008 (late at night)

You are a superstar!

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