BSD Subsystem 2.1

61 Responses to “BSD Subsystem 2.1”

1. likwidfuzion on February 11th, 2008 5:43 pm:
   

   I’m getting the “Backspace” issue in Term-vt100 again after installing BSD Subsystem 2.1

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2. Willy on February 11th, 2008 6:28 pm:
   

   I’m getting the “Backspace” issue in Term-vt100 again after installing BSD Subsystem 2.1

   Ps: Same issue here

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3. Liam on February 11th, 2008 6:29 pm:
   

   So what password do we use? It’s not appearing for me on my homepage either

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4. Rap M on February 11th, 2008 6:37 pm:
   

   im getting it too…
   a fix will come out in installer like it did for 2.0

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5. josheesh on February 11th, 2008 6:45 pm:
   

   I just updated my bsd subsystem to this version, now installer wants me to update to natetrue’s v1.5. Should I do it? Why would it want me to update again?

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6. Rap M on February 11th, 2008 7:44 pm:
   

   i think your sources are getting mixed..
   mines get mixed all the time

   so i always have 7 updates waiting for me
   which are all outdated versions

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7. DaffyDGeek on February 11th, 2008 11:38 pm:
   

   @Liam -> Password is alpine or what your set your SSH password to.

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8. SICKPEGASUS on February 12th, 2008 1:52 am:
   

   TO: LIKWIDFUZION,WILLI, LIAM,RAP M
   HEY GUYS YOU NEED TO INSTALL BSD SUBSYSTEM 2.0 TERMFIX
   VERSION 1.10 FROM BIG BOSS

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9. Tino on February 12th, 2008 2:08 am:
   

   Guys,

   Latest. Refersh you rInstaller and you will see BigBoss’s termvt100 fix for backspace for BSD 2.1.

   Thanks, BigBoss..!

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10. applestar on February 12th, 2008 3:52 am:
    

    the passwd reminder is really important! I did not read it since I updated from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 via soft update on the first day and well, I had an ever re-starting springboard. If you want to change the password make sure you create the crypted password manually (use as salt: “/s”) and copy it manually to master password file.

    regards

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    gefan on March 1st, 2008 7:57 pm:

    To applestar,

    I just used passwd(it’s a very bad idea) and springboard began the non-stop rebooting. In your comments you said you did that before, so could you tell me how did you recover from this disaster? I even tried recover from iTune, but iTune cannot finish it because of some error.

    Thanks.

    

    applestar on March 2nd, 2008 3:23 am:

    not easy. I did all the unlocking from 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 again, re-installing every application (since I did not know at that time where the problem was). But I know there is a solution, you got to replace your changed “etc/passwd” and “/etc/master.passwd” with original ones. Get them from an other user and make sure you copy them very quickly onto the phone using a WiFi connection and FUGU on a mac (WinSCP on y Windows machine)
11. terminator on February 12th, 2008 6:54 am:
    

    Hi Guys,

    Did the update, and since I can’t get in with terminal, always get a Login incorrect when I try root/alpine or mobile/dottie. Any idea why is this and how I can trouvelshoot it?

    Many thanks

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12. Brooke on February 12th, 2008 8:08 am:
    

    Tino is right…there is a fix in the Installer through the BigBoss source…it is called BSD Subsystem 2.0 Termfix.

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13. Tino on February 12th, 2008 8:11 am:
    

    >> terminator,

    Try uninstall, soft reboot, and reinstall Terminal vt100 + the Term vt-100 fix for BSD 2.1 (by BigBoss) from Installer.

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14. Tino on February 12th, 2008 8:14 am:
    

    sorry..it’s still under the name of BSD 2.0 Termfix, but it had been updated to fix in BSD 2.1.

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15. dabrai_Sid on February 12th, 2008 10:06 am:
    

    i am trying to update bsd but i get a “package download failed” error

    P.S – i hav updated my community sources to 3.4…any ideas wat the problem cud be:S?

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16. Brooke on February 12th, 2008 10:19 am:
    

    @dabrai_Sid…whenever you get the “Error, Package Download failed” it has to do with the server you are trying to download from. Either the server is overloaded or something is wrong with it. Give it a few minutes and then try again.

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17. naveed on February 12th, 2008 10:28 am:
    

    Just installed BSD sybsystem 2.1 on iphone 1.1.3, but what is the password ? Anyone ?

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18. Jacob on February 12th, 2008 3:44 pm:
    

    ‘alpine’ or ‘dottie’ I believe

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19. johnc on February 12th, 2008 11:40 pm:
    

    Still have BS issue after installing BSD 2.1. Reinstalled vt100-terminal and BSD 2.1 Term Fix and still have the problem. If I set term manually, IE export TERM=vt100, I get Name collision between vt100 vt100 for every terminal type in /etc/termcap. BTW, I am running FW 1.1.2.

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20. sam, on February 12th, 2008 11:50 pm:
    

    i updated to 1.1.3 softupgrade afterwards i cant upgrade bsd to 2.1,it says package dowanload failed

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21. rhfroe on February 13th, 2008 3:19 am:
    

    I’m in 1.1.3 with ziphone and the password don’t work… Any idea?

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22. Volkan on February 13th, 2008 3:33 am:
    

    hi, i got the error “package download failed: can’t find host!” what do i have to do now? i could not find any solution,thnx

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23. Roberto on February 13th, 2008 11:03 am:
    

    I’ve been trying all the day to Download BSD Subsystem 2.1 and everythime I try it keeps me sending “Error Package Download Failed” the strange here is that the Downloading Bar actually seems to download something, does anyone have the same problem? or a solution?

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24. ATN on February 13th, 2008 12:16 pm:
    

    @Roberto, same thing here.
    I did it yesterday (+5 tries) and this morning but no luck! sux

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25. theJam on February 13th, 2008 2:44 pm:
    

    OK, I can ssh to my phone from a separate machine and use alpine as the root password, but when terming in from iphone itself no password will work. I’ve applied bigboss’s termfix but to no avail.

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26. Brooke on February 14th, 2008 11:15 am:
    

    @Everyone getting the “package download failed” error…whenever you get the “Error, Package Download failed” it has to do with the server you are trying to download from. Either the server is overloaded or something is wrong with it. Give it a few minutes (or hours) and then try again.

    @rhfroe…we used the ZiPhone jailbreak on one of our iPhones and was able to SSH in using the password alpine.

    @theJam…did you get it figured out? It is weird that you can ssh in from a separate machine but not on the actual iPhone!

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27. dabrai_sid on February 15th, 2008 4:15 pm:
    

    have been trying since 3 days now. Package downloading still failing.what’s the most reliable source to dowload from ?

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28. yug_rover on February 19th, 2008 2:52 pm:
    

    aaaahhh! theres is many bad news! i have BSD download problem too… i upgrade 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 , then jailbreak with ziphone, now i wanna unlock it with anySIM , but need BSD !!! anyone know how can i download it? so where is the problem??

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29. Sean1504 on February 19th, 2008 4:44 pm:
    

    I’m having the same problem just upgraded my 1.1.2 OTB to 1.1.3 using ziphone and now cant install BSD subsystem! Very annoying. Anyone got any ideas.

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30. Sean1504 on February 19th, 2008 4:49 pm:
    

    Yug_rover: I was being stupid just worked it out. Install the community sources 3.4. Then go to your sources list and manually refresh, an update will pop up for community sources that takes it to 3.6. Install this refresh again and then BSD subsystem should install ok.

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31. cplee70 on February 19th, 2008 8:03 pm:
    

    I just upgraded from 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 and unlocked using Ziphone 2.4. Then I encountered problem installing BSD Subsystem 2.1. It always gave the “Package Download Failed” error message. Tried it at home and at work. Same problem. On repeated tries, however, I managed to finally have it installed. I didn’t do anything differently except to add the i.unlock.no as a new source. But I don’t think that was the reason why it worked this time. Anyway, for those who are facing problems, just be patient and try another time. It should work!

    –cp

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32. cplee70 on February 19th, 2008 8:05 pm:
    

    One more thing. I also installed Community Sources v3.6 before I was able to download and install the BSD Subsystem 2.1. Not sure if that contributed in any way to the success. Thanks.

    –cp

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33. cplee70 on February 19th, 2008 8:13 pm:
    

    And before you install any more apps, install BossTool under Utilities and relocated your Fonts, Ringtones and Applications to the bigger partition on your iPhone. Mine had only 34MB out of 300MB left before BossTool came to the rescue!

    –cp

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34. noji on February 20th, 2008 11:35 pm:
    

    For those of you that are having the “package download failed” problem. I was in the same boat as you before and tried different things and nothing worked. There is a very simple solution that someone suggested here as well:
    1) You need to update to Community Sources v3.6 by going to Sources and hit refresh
    2) Click on the Update tab at the bottom and Now here is the tricky part! instead of selecting the individual item (Community Sources in this case) and pressing update, click on UPDATE ALL button at the top
    3) at this point you shouldn’t get the “package download failed” error and can now proceed to install BSD

    Thanks to everyone that contributed here, you guys made my day!

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    Yoyo on February 25th, 2008 7:16 am:

    It’s WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
35. brianyoung on February 21st, 2008 7:42 pm:
    

    I have 1.1.1 on my iPhone and had bsd2.1 installed. When I downloaded a program, that needs bsd to run, it wasnt working. I went to installer and to the unistall portion, where all thestuff u have downloaded goes. When i tapped on bsd subsystem, in the top right corner normally where it would say uninstall it said reinstall. That caught me be surprise. I hit reinstall and I’d began downloading like normal. When it finished it said “error package download failed.” so I tried like 20 more times and same thing happens everytime. Ok updated to comm. Sources 3.6 and I can still ssh my computer with winscp. But the bsd isn’t working and isn’t downloading, why would it need to be reinstalled and just stopworrking? What am I doing wrong? Any help would be great. And if there is no ways to get 2.1 working, how can I downgrade to 2.0? And if I can’t uninstall bsd 2.1, because it says reinstall not uninstall, what needs to be done? Somebody please help me

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36. James on February 22nd, 2008 10:31 am:
    

    To get the password to work in Term-vt100 you need to issue some commands over an ssh connection (connect using your wifi), full instructions are at http://jmoz.co.uk/blog/iphone-113-term-vt100-password-not-working/6

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37. gefan on March 1st, 2008 7:56 pm:
    

    To applestar,

    I just used passwd(it’s a very bad idea) and springboard began the non-stop rebooting. In your comments you said you did that before, so could you tell me how did you recover from this disaster? I even tried recover from iTune, but iTune cannot finish it because of some error.

    Thanks.

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    ndiddy on March 3rd, 2008 4:32 am:

    I had the same problem. If you turn off your iphone. Then hold down the home key while attaching it to your computer. It should go into restore mode and bypass the crashing springboard. From there you can do a restore through itunes.
38. ndiddy on March 3rd, 2008 4:14 am:
    

    I also used passed. I am a huge fool and can admit that freely. I can ssh into my phone though so I believe that I have hope. Can someone please email me the original “etc/passwd” and “/etc/master.passwd” files that applestar mentioned?

    My email is norrietaylor(at)gmail.com

    Thanks

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39. dean on March 3rd, 2008 11:39 am:
    

    I need to know how to use 3rd party themes on my iphone..I have 1.1.4 and BSD and open SSH installed but I dont know how to get downloaded themes on my phone…can you please help

    thanks
    Dean

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40. dean on March 3rd, 2008 11:43 am:
    

    you can email me here sticks2uATcomcast.net

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41. POWERTOOLA on March 3rd, 2008 2:40 pm:
    

    1.1.4 is rubbish

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42. POWERTOOLA on March 3rd, 2008 2:42 pm:
    

    keep getting error package timed out
    or pack failed cant find host

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43. Rachel on March 4th, 2008 11:10 am:
    

    Ok, I am totally bummed right now. I updated BSD Sub v2.1 yesterday, then tried to install summerboard 3.2 and it completely installed but the themes would not work (and it said inactive). I then:
    1st. I installed 1,1.3/4 Theme Fix… no luck
    2nd. Smb Themes Fix… no luck
    This is where it really sucks!
    3rd. I uninstalled summerboard completely and attempted to reinstall it. It downloaded completely and when it went to the install bar, the bar did not even begin to fill before it just switched to the home screen as if nothing had happened. I tried again and the same thing happened.
    4th. I tried to install SUID Lib Fix, but it did the same thing as the summerboard app.
    5th. Tried to install other apps to see if they would work but they wouldn’t. They would download and immediately switch to the home screen. Things like ebooks would work, just not apps.

    Any help is very appreciated! Thanks for all the great posts!

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    Rachel on March 4th, 2008 11:49 am:

    oops forget to mention I’m on 1.1.3
44. ServerSage on March 5th, 2008 12:17 pm:
    

    For all those getting the “error package download failed.”, try killing installer.app by holding the home button for 5 seconds or so while in installer.app, and then restart it and try the install again. Did the truck for me.

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45. Xenios on March 15th, 2008 10:38 am:
    

    hello im on 1.1.4 and have installer i used ziphone 2.6 to unlock and in installer i cant put bsd subsystem on without it saying cant find host.
    Please answer me asap

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46. CHRIS REINHART on March 30th, 2008 4:18 pm:
    

    MAN OKAY I NEED HELP EVER SINCE I INSTALLED BSD SUBSYSTEM 2.1 I CANT LISTEN OR WATCH MUSIC OR VIDEOS…AND ALSO WHAT IS BSD SUBSYSTEM USED FOR??????PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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47. Stef on April 8th, 2008 4:08 pm:
    

    Hi I have downgraded my Iphone from 1.1.2 to 1.1.1. I now want to install BSD subsystem but I get a error message “host not found”. I know many people here had the same problem so far, but none of the solutions I found worked! Has someone an idea how to install BSD somehow in an alternative way (other sources, manually…ect.) I really need help guys,
    please post any suggestions

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48. Rahul on May 13th, 2008 5:42 pm:
    

    I’m running 1.1.4 & have been facing issues with BSD subsystem 2.1. Whenever I try to install particular application from installer, it says that BSD subsystem is reqd… even though I have it on my iPhone. So when I try to uninstall it and go to uninstall option, it shows up with a button of ‘Reinstall’ instead of ‘Uninstall’… and if I go with Reinstall option, it prompts with an error message: Error: Package Download Failed !
    Please help..!!!

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49. tyler on May 15th, 2008 9:42 am:
    

    For you who cant listen to musci go to settings>general>reset>reset all settings this usually works

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50. Raghav on May 29th, 2008 1:39 am:
    

    can any one tell me how to uninstall bsd subsytem from my iphone….pls mail me at raghav_chowdhry@hotmail.com

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    Nwriko on June 1st, 2008 12:31 pm:

    i’m not sure you want to hear this… i actually even restored original settings through itunes i then re-unlocked/jail-braked the phone and…once i updated to the new installer bsd subsystem appeared again!!

    i want to get rid of it because it just drains my battery way faster.

    anyone else has suggestions?
51. darcy on June 5th, 2008 1:55 am:
    

    ages ago i tried 2 install BSD subsystem. it didnt install properly and now it says it installed, but it never comes up and when i go 2 uninstall it only gives me the option 2 re install, which trust me ive done a ton of times and it doesnt work…

    does any1 no how 2 fix this? or do u no where i can download a ziped copy of the files?

    thanks… email me if u have an answer plz… darcy.b.4@gmail.com

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52. zach on June 17th, 2008 1:00 pm:
    

    okay look, i got my 1.1.4 itouch a few weeks ago and still cannot install bsd subsytem. i have tried multiple times every single day and it still says error package download failed, so for me, the wait a little while and it should work thing, is not working. what do i have to do to get it to work?!?!
    help!!!!!

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53. nas on September 8th, 2008 2:06 pm:
    

    can anyone plz tell me how to uninstall bsd subsystem. Any solutions plz
    email to silverskyster@gmail.com

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54. Malia on October 23rd, 2008 3:44 pm:
    

    Has anyone figured out how to reinstall BSD Subsystem or at least uninstall it?…
    Email me: Kanakaoles@Hawaii.rr.com

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55. glenn k on February 17th, 2009 8:14 am:
    

    Interesting blog, look forward to more.

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