An error occurred while attempting to run privileges!

[bluger]

Any tech heads out there want to give a stab at helping me fix my phone?

FIRST: THANK YOU Liquidjesus. Liquidjesus for President! He spent several hours last night trying to help me get my rooted phone to accept new flashed ROMs. It was a heroic effort.

So, whenever I try to do anything in ROM Manger, including flash a recovery, I get the following message: An error occurred while attempting to run privileges. When I load a ROM from the SD Card through bootloader, it looks like everything is going to be fine. Once the ROM is loaded I boot up and the the reboot fairy takes over and the phone keeps cycling through reboots, never getting to the OS.

I've rooted several times now in an effort to keep trying. I've rooted using both Simpleroot with the old RUU and the newer simpleroot for the OTA patch. Any suggestions? It really is an impressive bit of phone borking I have here. If any of you live in the Washington DC area and want to make a few bucks by trying in person, let me know. I've reached that point. Otherwise, I'm glad to try any suggestions here.

Did I mention Liquid Jesus is THE man?

 

[KSmithInNY]

Are you wiping everything before flashing the ROM? That would cause a bootloop if you skip that step.

What ROM are you flashing? After rooting you have SU, correct? Open SU and verify that "ROM Manager" is listed, click it and make sure the status = "allow"

 

[bluger]

1) What is SU? The last ROM I tried to flash was RvU. I do have ROM Manager in my list of programs. ANYTHING I do within ROM Manager gives me the aforementioned error.
2) I hate to be noobish, but could you explain, specifically, the process of wiping? I know about "wiping data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition" from within ClockworkMod Recovery. Is there another wipe that I'm missing?

 

[Yourdogsdead]

1) What is SU? The last ROM I tried to flash was RvU. I do have ROM Manager in my list of programs. ANYTHING I do within ROM Manager gives me the aforementioned error.
2) I hate to be noobish, but could you explain, specifically, the process of wiping? I know about "wiping data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition" from within ClockworkMod Recovery. Is there another wipe that I'm missing?

SU is superuser, aka Root. Download "terminal Emulator" and run the command su and see if it give you any issues.

 

[trooper54]

1) What is SU? The last ROM I tried to flash was RvU. I do have ROM Manager in my list of programs. ANYTHING I do within ROM Manager gives me the aforementioned error.
2) I hate to be noobish, but could you explain, specifically, the process of wiping? I know about "wiping data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition" from within ClockworkMod Recovery. Is there another wipe that I'm missing?

You have SU, as indicated with the # we get when we went into shell. I think your best bet right now will be to unroot with the RUU you downloaded last night. And follow simpleroot method again. But make sure you follow all the videos, because there are steps that he goes over in the video.

 

[KSmithInNY]

And what about the wipe question? Your original post doesn't mention it and not wiping before flashing is the cause of bootloop 99% of the time

- edit. Sorry, I didn't see you replied with it. Will post more info in a sec

- edit. Ok so from within ROM Manager you'd do wipe data / factory and wipe cache which it sounds like you did that. you might want to try flashing an alternate recovery image (can be done from within ROM Manager). Call me old school but I'm an amen ra kind of guy. Once you flash amen ra, reboot into recovery and try wiping and flashing. I usually wipe everything (including battery settings but thats not at all necessary). In order for the amen recovery to see the zip you are trying to flash you need to make sure its placed directly on the root of the SD card. You can name it "RvU.zip" it doesnt really matter the naming convention as long as it stays .zip.

Quick run down:
place the zip of the ROM you want to flash on the root of the SD card
Go into ROM Manager and flash amen ra recovery (RA Recovery 1.7.0.1)
reboot into recovery
give everything a good wipe
after wiping select "flash from SD"
select your ROM and give it a try.

Hope that helps.

 

[bluger]

Liquidjesus: I already unrooted and did the whole thing over again (couldn't get out of the loop without unrooting anyway).
LSmithNY: When I try to flash an alternate recovery image I get the error "an error occurred while attempting to run root privileges." If I remember correctly, I can flash AmenRa from simpleroot menu. I'll try it.

 

[trooper54]

if that doesnt work, you can flash amen ra the way we flashed clockwork yesterday, with the flash_image recovery > ..... ect comand =)

 

[KSmithInNY]

After you root, when you install ROM manager, its asking you to give it root permissions correct?

If you click the super user icon in your app drawer, does Rom manager show up? If you select Rom manager, does the status = allow?

That's weird Rom manger is giving you all these problems but I don't use it. I did read somewhere that people have experienced problems with clockwork recovery not wiping properly. That's what's making me lean towards the wipe not working successfully, which will cause a bootloop when trying to flash a ROM

 

[trooper54]

oh duh, how did i never think of the super user blocking clockwork.... How can you allow it if you already blocked it once, which i think he may have.

 

[KSmithInNY]

oh duh, how did i never think of the super user blocking clockwork.... How can you allow it if you already blocked it once, which i think he may have.

Easy peezy

Open SU. Select ROM Manager. Click "Forget".

Now close out of SU, open ROM Manager and it will ask you again if you want to assign the app permissions. This time, "always allow".

 

[bluger]

Ok, when I try to download and install SU I get an "incompatible update" error. huh?

 

[KSmithInNY]

Ok, when I try to download and install SU I get an "incompatible update" error. huh?

SU should be installed automatically during the root process.

How are you rooting? This?

 

[bluger]

I did that one first. Then, when that failed, I used the previous simple root. SU was not automatically installed (however that works). Weird.
That is to say: I first tried with the OTA SImple Root you linked above. Since, I have wiped the phone with the RUU and used the previous simpleroot method 2 times.

 

[KSmithInNY]

I did that one first. Then, when that failed

When you say it failed, do you have usb debugging enabled on your phone?

Menu > settings > applications > development > Check USB debugging

 

[bluger]

Yeah, I'm in debugging mode.

 

[KSmithInNY]

Yeah, I'm in debugging mode.

Have you read the forum over at XDA for that root method I linked to above? Maybe someone has encountered the same error and has posted a fix. I read the first few pages and saw no mention of errors but like I said I only read a couple of pages.

Edit - also please tell me more about the error. What it said, what step you were on .... any details will help but the more descriptive the better

 

[trooper54]

1. So he rooted using the new simple root method (the adobe exploit).
2. He couldn't flash roms, ROM manager wouldn't let him flash a recovery or make a backup
3. We restored his evo using the original pre-OTA RUU
4. We re-rooted using the pre-OTA simpleroot
5. Rom Manager still wouldn't let him make a back up, reboot into recovery, or Flash a recovery.
6. In adb shell, we used the the "flash_image recovery" command to flash the new clockwork.
7. We wiped dalvic and cache
8. Installed the newest RvU, got a boot loop.
9. Used the original RUU, and re rooted using pre-ota simpleroot
10. Still gives him the permissions error.

 

[KSmithInNY]

Weren't people using an official Adobe page for that exploit? Any chance Adobe fixed the page? If so people were worried this was going to happen and were making their own exploit pages.

Edit - you used the pre OTA RUU?? Why not just root the phone the tried and true method stickied above rather than the flash exploit?

Also didn't the NEW RUU (read post OTA) open this exploit? Reason I'm asking is cause if the new RUU exposed that vulnerability, and you flash the old RUU, the flash exploit wouldn't work.

Just spit balling ideas here

 

[trooper54]

Weren't people using an official Adobe page for that exploit? Any chance Adobe fixed the page? If so people were worried this was going to happen and were making their own exploit pages.

Edit - you used the pre OTA RUU?? Why not just root the phone the tried and true method stickied above rather than the flash exploit?

Also didn't the NEW RUU (read post OTA) open this exploit? Reason I'm asking is cause if the new RUU exposed that vulnerability, and you flash the old RUU, the flash exploit wouldn't work.

Just spit balling ideas here

We used the original RUU to downgrade him because i thought there might be an issue in how he rooted with the OTA method.

The original simpleroot (the one we ran) didn't use the exploit, it ran all the adb commands and pushed the files for you.

Hope that clears things up.