[Q] Custom kernal/ROM - root "disappeared" after some time

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cmdrfire

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Hello all,
Bit of background, I've been rooting phones since my old HTC Hero so I'm not a complete newb... but your help on this would be appreciated.
Got a Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000 some years ago, of course immediately rooted it and put on a ROM (non-stock, not CM). Anyhoo all things go well for several years. Late last year I put a new kernel and Asylum 4.4 ROM on it. Again all is pretty well, works as intended.

BUT

I tried to do something which required root the other day and things were not successful. Tried a few bits and pieces, fired up SuperSU app, informed me that root was out of date, flash a new one... tried that, but it failed.

Long story short, I've flashed new kernel/recovery (raw_kernel_r4_j43) and new ROM (4.4.2 SlimSaber), tried flashing SuperSU from recovery, tried FramaRoot... Flashing in recovery indicates success, but RootChecker still indicates that there is no root access. FramaRoot comes up with an error advising me to use the "build.prop" (maybe "local.prop"?) trick. Whatever I've tried is all to no avail. To be clear, the device works perfectly otherwise - boots up normally, runs apps without problem, etc. Developer menus and so on all available. Root access just doesn't stick, and whenever I try to do something that requires root access - change DPI for instance - the app just hangs.

Here's the log from RootChecker Pro:
Super User Application Status:
SuperSU application - version 1.93 - is installed!

System File Properties for Root Access:
Standard Location
Check Command: ls -l /system/bin/su:
Result: lrwxrwxrwx root root 2014-03-12 13:18 su -> /system/xbin/su
Analysis: File: su is a symbolic link pointing to another file: /system/xbin/su

Standard Location
Check Command: ls -l /system/xbin/su:
Result: -rwsr-sr-x root root 91980 2008-08-01 13:00 su
Analysis: Setuid attribute is present and root user ownership is present. Root access is correctly configured for this file! Executing this file can grant root access!

Alternative Location
Check Command: ls -l /sbin/su:
Result: /sbin/su: Permission denied
Analysis: File system permissions restricted and denied access.

Alternative Location
Check Command: ls -l /system/xbin/sudo:
Result: /system/xbin/sudo: No such file or directory
Analysis: File /system/xbin/sudo does not exist.

Root User ID and Group ID Status:
SU binary not found or not operating properly

System Environment PATH: /sbin /vendor/bin /system/sbin /system/bin /system/xbin

ADB Shell Default User:
ADB shell setting for standard access, stored in default.prop, is configured as: shell (non root) user - ro.secure=1

Results provided on your GT-N7000 device by Root Checker Pro version 1.3.6 from joeykrim in the Android Market

And regarding Busybox:
BusyBox has been installed correctly!

System Environment PATH: /sbin /vendor/bin /system/sbin /system/bin /system/xbin

BusyBox binary location:
/system/xbin/busybox

BusyBox binary file information:
-rwsr-xr-x root root 1165484 2008-08-01 13:00 busybox

Installed BusyBox Version:
1.20.2-linusyang

BusyBox supports the following applets:
[, [[, acpid, adjtimex, ar, arp, arping, ash, awk, base64, basename, bbconfig, beep, blkid, blockdev, bootchartd, brctl, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat, catv, chat, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown, chpst, chroot, chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm, cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cttyhack, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, depmod, devmem, df, dhcprelay, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsd, dnsdomainname, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, ed, egrep, env, envdir, envuidgid, ether-wake, expand, expr, fakeidentd, false, fbset, fbsplash, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgconsole, fgrep, find, findfs, flash_lock, flash_unlock, flashcp, flock, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck, fsck.minix, fsync, ftpd, ftpget, ftpput, fuser, getopt, grep, groups, gunzip, gzip, halt, hd, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostname, httpd, hush, hwclock, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifup, inetd, init, inotifyd, insmod, install, ionice, iostat, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, iproute, iprule, iptunnel, kbd_mode, kill, killall, killall5, klogd, less, linuxrc, ln, loadkmap, logread, losetup, lpd, lpq, lpr, ls, lsattr, lsmod, lsof, lspci, lsusb, lzcat, lzma, lzop, lzopcat, makedevs, makemime, man, md5sum, mdev, mesg, microcom, mkdir, mkdosfs, mke2fs, mkfifo, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.minix, mkfs.reiser, mkfs.vfat, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modinfo, modprobe, more, mount, mountpoint, mpstat, mv, nameif, nanddump, nandwrite, nbd-client, nc, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, nslookup, od, openvt, patch, pgrep, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress, pivot_root, pkill, pmap, popmaildir, poweroff, powertop, printenv, printf, ps, pscan, pstree, pwd, pwdx, raidautorun, rdate, rdev, readlink, readprofile, realpath, reboot, reformime, renice, reset, resize, rev, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, rtcwake, run-parts, runsv, runsvdir, rx, script, scriptreplay, sed, sendmail, seq, setconsole, setkeycodes, setlogcons, setserial, setsid, setuidgid, sh, sha1sum, sha256sum, sha512sum, showkey, slattach, sleep, smemcap, softlimit, sort, split, start-stop-daemon, stat, strings, stty, sum, sv, svlogd, swapoff, swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl, syslogd, tac, tail, tar, tcpsvd, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, tftpd, time, timeout, top, touch, tr, traceroute, traceroute6, true, tty, ttysize, tunctl, tune2fs, ubiattach, ubidetach, ubimkvol, ubirmvol, ubirsvol, ubiupdatevol, udhcpc, udhcpd, udpsvd, umount, uname, uncompress, unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlzma, unlzop, unxz, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig, vi, volname, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which, whoami, whois, xargs, xz, xzcat, yes, zcat, zcip

Results provided on your GT-N7000 device by Root Checker Pro version 1.3.6 from joeykrim in the Android Market -

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated, and thanks in advance!