Cydia Essential Upgrade Error & error reinstalling MobileTerminal

[Dimmthewitted]

Hello everyone,

I am running a tethered jailbreak iphone 3GS with version 4.3.5.

Everything has been going fine until recently I was asked to update Cydia. It fails to update and then MobileTerminal and a few other utilities went out and won't update.

I had deleted Big Boss, Activator, and a few other mods a time earlier, but I don't see how that could have caused the file damage.

Here is what is displayed when I update Cydia:

Preparing Core Utilities (/bin)
unpacking replacement coreutils-bin...
failed in buffer_write(id)(7, ret=-1)
Preparing Core Utilities (/bin)
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Whenever I try to install a utility I get the an error in dpkg


I tried rejailbreaking with redsnow 0.9.9b3a to reinstall Cydia but to no avail.

I am considering manual trying to replace the core files, but fear I may lose the build and all my stuff. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

M tech-savvy level is at about medium rare.

[celeron]

I think deleting the bigboss repo is the problem.

[Dimmthewitted]

I didn't remove the bigboss repository from the sources if thats what you are saying; I deleted actually it was the BossPaper mod and a couple others trying to make things run faster.

I reinstall BossPaper just now and it said it reinstall mobileterminal.

Now whenever I try to install anything I get this error:

Preparing Core Utilities (/bin)
unable to make backup link of *./bin/su before installing new version
Preparing Core Utilities (/bin)
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

su ? is that a sudo command line? Is it saying that it doesn't have root access maybe. I can't get command line access with Prompt and mobileterminal not working now so I can't refresh the cydia installation with:

"apt-get update" at command prompt.

Maybe I'll try to SSH login and try it from my computer


=-=-=-=-== ADDENDUM JUST TRIED=-=-=-=-=-=
ran apt-get update from a ssh telnet on the phone and reinstalled cydia distribution (I think that's what the command does).

Tried installing mobileterminal no change and still asks for essential upgrade.

[Dimmthewitted]

So never install SBSettings BigBoss ICY and then try to remove them with CyDelete to save space.

So trying to fix the Cydia package I removed the util/bin tools upgrade thinking I would be able to reinstall. Since every other way to fix Cydia did not work.

Of course this broke the build. I thought that I could just rejailbreak, but after doing that I could only get the hook the phone to itunes screen image. I can no longer SSH to the phone.

I am having to recover and upgrade with Itunes and then I will try jailbreaking again. Basically I lost everything and am effed.