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How to move/delete Toybox executable and its symlinks properly?
Have a Chainfire-rooted Samsung Galaxy J5 with Android 7.1. Busybox 1.34.1 in `/system/xbin`, and Toybox (unfortunately) in `/system/bin` (installed by: "`toybox | toybox sed 's/\ /\n/g'| toybox sed '$d'| while read line; do toybox ln -sf /system/bin/toybox /system/bin/$line; done)`". How to move (o...
Have a Chainfire-rooted Samsung Galaxy J5 with Android 7.1. Busybox 1.34.1 in /system/xbin, and Toybox (unfortunately) in /system/bin (installed by: "toybox | toybox sed 's/\ /\n/g'| toybox sed '$d'| while read line; do toybox ln -sf /system/bin/toybox /system/bin/$line; done)". How to move (or delete) them properly? I did it with Total Commander 'search' for 'toybox' string (as it should be in symlinks?) and then move them (just like in Windows). But I think it was bad, as I run into fs problems. Symlinks were not "really" deleted and the "moved" ones were "converted" into files (of same size, ~273k).
martinist (21 rep)
Aug 21, 2023, 11:18 AM • Last activity: Aug 21, 2023, 09:09 PM
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whoami: bad uid 0 / Magisk vs. Toybox
I replaced old `/system/bin/toybox` with a new binary from [http://landley.net/toybox/bin](http://landley.net/toybox/bin) then I created symlinks with `for i in $(./toybox); do ln -s toybox $i`. There is `su` in symlinks. Now I cannot open Magisk anymore, stuck at splash screen mask. Also MiXplorer...
I replaced old /system/bin/toybox with a new binary from [http://landley.net/toybox/bin](http://landley.net/toybox/bin) then I created symlinks with for i in $(./toybox); do ln -s toybox $i. There is su in symlinks. Now I cannot open Magisk anymore, stuck at splash screen mask. Also MiXplorer cannot browse root dirs. With Terminal Emulator I can still browse root dirs. If I type which su I get /sbin/su which is a symlink to /sbin/magisk. I have not yet tried to reboot because I fear to get stuck, maybe it would repair by itself but who knows? If I type whoami I get bad uid 0, after su shell I get bad uid 2000 and so on. How can I restore root? I can access TWRP recovery.
Ju Tutt (524 rep)
Jan 29, 2023, 09:11 PM • Last activity: Jan 30, 2023, 07:40 PM
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