iPod touches "self heal" from read-write access after jailbreak
I have yet to jailbreak my personal iPod touch but interesting news has come to my ears from a variety of sources. Many iPod touch jailbreakers find that their systems lose read-write access after reboot. The iPod seems to "self heal" and "modify" the /etc/fstab file on their system.
The problem may simply arise from the file not getting written properly during the jailbreak itself. For the moment, iPod touches that are jailbroken using older (primarily Windows) versions of iPhuc are leading this trend while Mac jailbreaks resist the reversion. More as this develops.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Gordon Werner said 4:28PM on 10-11-2007
I really really like this site ... in fact it is my homepage for Safari ... but please. Enough with the frackin iPhone Hacking posts ... at least split it to another page for all people who might care.
Reply
Jack said 4:33PM on 10-11-2007
My iPod touch is jailbroken (from an intel mac) and this has not happened to me
Reply
MacMoreno said 4:38PM on 10-11-2007
I dont understand people that complain about all the iPhone of iPod Touch posts. Is your scroll button not working? If your not interested why do you click on the posts?
Reply
janeiro said 4:39PM on 10-11-2007
it seems like overkill, but are is Mobile Mac OS X using NetInfo to manage mount points? Could it be generating an fstab from that database on startup?
Reply
dappleganger said 4:42PM on 10-11-2007
You know, I'm going to have to agree with the first poster. It's time to spin-off the iPhone hack 'news' to a sub-page of TUAW. Leopard is about to release, and this should be more news-worth!
Reply
DistortedLoop said 4:42PM on 10-11-2007
#1 - so would you rather no news at all? There's really a lack of APPLE stuff going on right now outside the hacks, unless you want Leopard speculation.
Can't you just NOT READ the posts that don't interest you?
Reply
Ben said 4:45PM on 10-11-2007
Seriously, even the most ardent fan of iPhone hacking would have to admit this is getting out of hand now. I've even started wondering if this is just some kind of elaborate spoof by the people running the site.
SURELY there can be no justification of the complete dominance of posts on ONE subject written by ONE blogger on a site that covers (or at least used to cover) the whole spectrum of matters Apple.
This has become farcical.
Reply
James said 4:47PM on 10-11-2007
ANALOGY:
You eat at this restaruant, and the seleciton is usually pretty good. You almost always find something to like about each course. After a while it became your favorite restaurant
Then this restaurant starts serving a very specialized dish that requires a very specific pallette to appreciate. To some this is the best food ever, but to *most* it's just kind of gross. It's cool though because you can always just pick another dish.
Except with each passing day, the restaurant increases the amount of dishes focused on this specialized, acquired taste. Soon it becomes hard to find something appealing on the menu. A few weeks go buy and the restaurant is pretty much focused on this particular type of food.
You're sad. You used to love this restaurant! But now it seems like this restaurant is focused on serving a very specific minority crowd. At least you call the manager over to express you displeasure with the new changes. Except everytime you do somebody at another table yells at you and tells you "just don't eat the dishes you don't like! Is that so hard?" Well, it is because the majority of the menu is that gross stuff. "Then just go to another restaraunt!" Well, I used to love this place and I'd really just like it to return to the way it was. But yeah, if things keep up like this, I'm going to have to stop coming to this restaraunt. I'll keep coming back for awhile, hoping things will improve. But after that, I"m moving on.
Reply
bozwayed said 4:48PM on 10-11-2007
Mine is fine after a jailbreak from an intel mac. check out the images at my site http://www.q8mug.com/prime
Reply
Billy K said 4:53PM on 10-11-2007
Hello...Powers That Be?
It's seriously time to spin off a new blog...The Unofficial iPhone Hacker Blog. This isn't TUAW any more. I'm not saying all this iPhone/iPod Touch hacking news isn't worthy - it is - I'm just saying it has so taken over this blog to the point that TUAW is unrecognizable and unreadable.
This is just a plea from a long-time reader. I like TUAW. Please don't make me (and others) go elsewhere.
Reply
Jay Murray said 7:12PM on 10-11-2007
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is an Apple news blog… and the iPhone is an Apple product.
There is nothing wrong with the amount of iPhone "hacking" news items. They are perfectly relevant to Apple and with a lower volume of other Apple news out there in the last few days, what else do you expect?
When Leopard is released and Mac OS X stories dominate the front page of TUAW, should we complain? The beauty of news is that it keeps us up to date with current events and announcements… for example, the iPhone unlocking situation.
And if you're interested in Leopard, then open the Leopard category page. Same with anything else - there are category pages for a reason.
Reply
mentalsticks said 4:56PM on 10-11-2007
@ 3&7:
Actually, there hasn't been a single post yet today which is not about hacking. So no, there's nothing to scroll down to.
Please. Enough. Leopard is coming out in a couple of weeks. Appleinsider came out with a great series of articles on its roots and history.
Apple has applied for a patent for a force-sensitive display.
There's a free version of FileMaker (or something) for students which came out yesterday.
There's enough to report. So report.
Reply
novohobo said 5:04PM on 10-11-2007
Again, Yes enough with the iPod Touch / iPhone Hack news i can hardly find any mac news.
Reply
dk said 4:57PM on 10-11-2007
pointless post aside, OMG "self heal"?!? tech nerds everywhere are shooting themselves in the face. could you please add the term "self heal" to the iphone hacker primer LOL
i know i could quit commenting but oh god it's like a train wreck
i wonder how many more of these posts she can make today. does she have mcnulty & friends locked in the basement or something?
Reply
dk said 4:59PM on 10-11-2007
to #11
thank you. you are exactly right. there is news to read, and right now it's not on tuaw.
Reply
Gazoo said 5:02PM on 10-11-2007
I bet those of you who are complaining about the content of this site also complain to their newspaper publisher that THEY have content you're not interested in reading either.
Christ, grow up already. How much are you paying for access to this site anyway?
STFU and read another thread.
Reply
Ben Briggs said 5:04PM on 10-11-2007
My hacked iPod touch works fine...
Reply
mingistech said 5:07PM on 10-11-2007
This is just TUAW's way of saying "get an iPhone you loosers"
but seriously.... this is the hottest topic in Apple related news right now. If you don't believe me check out digg and engadget.
This is an Apple site... and this is the hot Apple news.
This trend will only continue to escalate as the iPhone becomes more widely adopted.
Time to get used to it boys. :)
Reply
Tony said 5:08PM on 10-11-2007
I know of three intel mac touches jail-broken successfully and still fine (including my own).
Reply
James said 5:08PM on 10-11-2007
@Gazoo.
No, but if the New York Times suddenly changed so that it's front page was all cooking recipes I'd complain. Sure, I can skip them. Sure some people will really like them. But that still doesn't mean that it's the right thing for the New York Times to do.
Every publishing entitiy is vaguely defined by it's "scope". A lot of us feel that this hacking play-by-play is outside of TUAW's scope. That's all.
Reply