[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamkm:
Hi

So i have the Xperia Z and went about rooting it as i've always done with all my devices.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2186368

Followed the usual as always kindly provided by DoomLord.

It "kinda" worked, it never asked for permissions for SuperUser so anything requiring root access took a while then timed out and failed. So, i installed SuperUser from the android market and it worked well, for a few installs like themes etc. Root Checker was happy it had root access, ES Explorer happily let me overwrite default themes with root access. Then ES Explorer crashed, the root checker said i no longer had root access and problems arose.

Im no longer rooted for some reason but i can no longer re-root.

I get the error "Too many symbolic links encountered" when trying to write the system/bin SU file. I can't do it manually and i cant do it with the flash tools.

Here is the rooting tool log:

Main point

"/system/bin/su: cannot open for write: Too many symbolic links encountered

Unable to chown /system/bin/su: Too many symbolic links encountered

Unable to chmod /system/bin/su: Too many symbolic links encountered"

Anyone able to help ?

Thanks

Adam

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\marshala>cd\

C:\>cd root

C:\root>runme
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Easy rooting Toolkit for XPEIRA Z SO-02E (ver 1.0.1)
from [MENTION=2526007]goroh_kun[/MENTION] idea
by HUHKA (@huhka_com)
ENGLISH Translation thanks to tkymgr@XDA
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[*] To do:
(1) get root access
(2) intall busybox
(3) install su
(4) disable /sbin/ric
[*] Tested version:
üE10.1.D.0.317
üE10.1.D.0.322
[*] To be prepared in advance:
(1) install USB driver in your PC
(4) connect your phone to PC
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Press any key to continue . . .
### beginüI ###
waiting for device
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
transfer files to your phone part1
13 KB/s (442 bytes in 0.031s)
0 KB/s (170 bytes in 1.000s)
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[*] description:
1. press the button to restore the data in your phone operation.
Now unlock your device and confirm the restore operation.
if Restoring data is complete,
Press any key to continue . . .
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[*] description:
1. Dial *#*#7378423#*#* and select "Service tests" in your phone operation.

2. select "Display" in your phone operation.
* Screen is white until completion of restart
Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cmp=com.sonyericsson.android.s
ervicemenu/.ServiceMainMenu }
executing /data/local/tmp/onload.sh ...
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[*] description:
1. push power button, so turn off the screen
2. push power button, so turn on the screen
* Repeat steps 1 and 2
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transfer files to your phone part2
4526 KB/s (1096224 bytes in 0.236s)
0 KB/s (38 bytes in 1.000s)
0 KB/s (1022 bytes in 1.000s)
0 KB/s (96 bytes in 1.000s)
3970 KB/s (380532 bytes in 0.093s)
installing busybox,su,Superuser,etc...
intall /system/xbin/busybox ...
2141+1 records in
2141+1 records out
1096224 bytes transferred in 0.061 secs (17970885 bytes/sec)
intall /system/bin/su ...
/system/bin/su: cannot open for write: Too many symbolic links encountered
Unable to chown /system/bin/su: Too many symbolic links encountered
Unable to chmod /system/bin/su: Too many symbolic links encountered
intall /system/etc/install-recovery.sh ...
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
38 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (38000 bytes/sec)
4597 KB/s (1468798 bytes in 0.312s)
pkg: /data/local/tmp/Superuser.apk
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS]
Cleaning up
now reboot!
wait for device...
### finishüI ###
Press any key to continue . . .