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eschwartz · 03-22-2016, 02:34 PM

Well, lesson for the future -- after a firmware upgrade, you must reinstall all hacks that write to the system partition. Recent firmware upgrades (5.3.x and on, introduced partway through the KT's lifecycle) flashes a pristine system image to the device.

The jailbreak contains a bridge for that reason, and of course KUAL extensions reside in the userstore not the system partition...
But anything which required an update_*.bin to install almost certainly needs to be reinstalled.
e.g. the Python hack installs symlinks to the $PATH -- those were wiped out by the update and then the KUAL extension couldn't run the python script without locating a python interpreter...

03-22-2016, 02:34 PM	#251
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Well, lesson for the future -- after a firmware upgrade, you must reinstall all hacks that write to the system partition. Recent firmware upgrades (5.3.x and on, introduced partway through the KT's lifecycle) flashes a pristine system image to the device. The jailbreak contains a bridge for that reason, and of course KUAL extensions reside in the userstore not the system partition... But anything which required an update_.bin to install almost certainly needs to be reinstalled. e.g. the Python hack installs symlinks to the $PATH -- those were wiped out by the update and then the KUAL extension couldn't run the python* script without locating a python interpreter... Last edited by eschwartz; 03-22-2016 at 03:14 PM.