How to fix “Error Establishing Database a Connection” using Absinthe

01 Feb 2012 | Jailbreak | Miss Hello Kitty on Google+

Absinthe is a jailbreaking tool to jailbreak the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S running iOS 5 and iOS 5.0.1. It was just released a couple of days ago, and already everyone is having problems with setting it up.

Now it’s available for Mac OS X, Windows and recently for Linux, however users who’ve been trying to set up the Absinthe app have been getting an ‘Error Establishing A Database Connection’ error. This might be a result of too many people utilizing the tool at this moment.

Obviously, lots of people are trying to jailbreak their iPads and iPhones now using the Chronic Dev Team’s Absinthe tool, and the Greenpois0n servers are becoming hammered. As a result it may be almost impossible for many people to really get Cydia installed and operating right now. When you can’t manage to complete the Absinthe jailbreak on the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S, you will find here a helpful fix.

Once we highlight in this guide, you will have to access the Greenpois0n internet site after jailbreaking your iOS device before you can get access to Cydia. Absinthe loads itself as being an application icon on your Home screen and also takes you to the Chronic Dev Team’s servers to operate the code that allows Cydia. If you are having the “Error establishing database connection” message, then this kind of fix should be good enough.

@Planetbeing has just written a solution on Twitter. In order to remove the error, you just have to go into Settings>General>Network and then Turn on VPN on your iPad 2 or iPhone 4S. This will provide an error and your iPad 2 or iPhone 4S should restart.

When the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S has restarted, launch the Absinthe application once again, and it should work now and restart again. After the restart, your iPad 2 or iPhone 4S should be jailbroken and the Absinthe application will be changed to the Cydia app.