That vaguely sounds like KUAL is not running as root...
Which version of KUAL are you using, and what's the breadcrumb line prefixed with (top-left)?
I'd reboot once just to make sure things are shaken into place.
I'm also going to need way more details that just 'crash' ^^.
To be perfectly honest, I'm kind of surprised KUAL runs *at all*, I thought Amazon killed Kindlets entirely on the KT2 & KV...
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As for the EIPS thing, to fix it in a better way than just magic numbers, I'm going to need the output of eips -i and possibly a screenshot where one block of eips character can properly be identified to measure it.
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Sidenote: you'll want my
fork of KindleTool to deal with recent devices (and actually work on other platforms than OSX/BSD).