Most Common Cydia Error Messages

If it’s your first time handling a jailbroken iPhone, iPod or iPad then getting error messages from Cydia can be quite confusing. The common iPhone, iPad or iPod user isn’t familiar with jailbreaking errors and isn’t quite sure when it’s time to freak out.

The following is a list of the most common Cydia errors. As we provide the fix for these Cydia glitches, you will be able to click on the link underneath each of the items in the list and learn more about what’s prompting Cydia to display that particular error message and what you should do to solve that issue.

1.    Dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg configure -a' to correct the problem

2.    Encountered a section with no Package: header
You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

3.    failed in buffer_write(fd) (7, ret=-1)
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

4.    GPG error: [repository] stable Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG [number]

5.    GPG error: [repository] stable Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2
Failed to fetch [repository] Sub-process /bin/bzip2 returned an error code (2)
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

6.    Hash Sum mismatch

7.    Host Unreachable

8.    HTTP/1.0 403 This package is either paid or requires a paid package to function. If you paid: contact saurik@saurik.com for help. If not, purchase the original package.

9.    HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

10.    POSIX error: Operation Timed Out.
POSIX: Socket is not connected.
NetDB: Open nodename nor servname provided, or not known.

11.    Problem parsing dependency Pre-Depends or Problem parsing dependency Depends
Error occurred while processing [repository]
Problem with MergeList [file]
The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened

12.    subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status [number] or subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status [number] or similar
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

13.    trying to overwrite [file], which is also in package [package]
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

14.    Wow, you exceeded the number of package names this APT is capable of.
Problem with MergeList [file]
The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

15.    I wasn't able to locate file for the [package] package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.