Jailbroken iphone running iOS 9.3.3 here.
I had not been able to run KODI successfully. While I could install the .deb file without any issues, KODI just crashed all the time upon startup. I was ready to give up after many unsuccessful attempts to get it to work….
…. until I stumbled across this while was working on another problem with my phone… I noticed the ownership of /private/var/mobile was ‘root’ and not ‘mobile’… !! I am not sure what caused this, may have been a tweak that I installed, really no clue why.
Then I ran this command via SSH and mobile terminal (while logged in as root):
chown -R mobile /private/var/mobile
when it is done, all of a sudden KODI is running perfectly!
So in case anyone else out there has a similar problem, try this suggestion and see if it works for you too.