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Waydroid container won't start on pinephone

    • Closed Imported Issue created by Administrator @root

    Running into an issue on PMOS phosh after running "sudo waydroid show-full-ui" command. After a bit of waiting, i was able to see on "top" that the container was being started.

    Mem: 996796K used, 2069872K free, 51996K shrd, 17628K buff, 454320K cached
CPU:   1% usr  25% sys   0% nic  71% idle   0% io   0% irq   0% sirq
Load average: 5.13 1.52 0.53 3/445 3761
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
 3557  2863 root     R    39892   1%   2  25% python3 /usr/bin/waydroid container start
 3610     1 root     S    43704   1%   0   1% /usr/libexec/fwupd/fwupd
 2575  2573 root     S     8332   0%   1   0% /usr/libexec/iio-sensor-proxy

    After a bit more, started seeing a flood of "failed to get service waydroidplatform, trying again..." This was getting printed out every second. The only thing that stood out under waydroid.log was: "lxc-start: waydroid: ../src/lxc/utils.c: safe_mount: 1220 No such file or directory - Failed to mount "

    pine64-pinephone:~$ tail -f /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid.log
(002845) [10:15:06] % modprobe -q ashmem_linux
(002845) [10:15:06] % chmod 666 -R /dev/binder
(002845) [10:15:06] % chmod 666 -R /dev/vndbinder
(002845) [10:15:06] % chmod 666 -R /dev/hwbinder
(002845) [10:15:06] Container manager is waiting for session to load
(003342) [10:15:23] Save session config: /var/lib/waydroid/session.cfg
(003342) [10:15:23] UserMonitor service is not even started
(003342) [10:15:23] Clipboard service is not even started
(002845) [10:15:23] % /usr/lib/waydroid/data/scripts/waydroid-net.sh start
vnic is waydroid0
(002845) [10:15:25] % mount /var/lib/waydroid/images/system.img /var/lib/waydroid/rootfs
(002845) [10:15:26] % mount -o remount,ro /var/lib/waydroid/images/system.img /var/lib/waydroid/rootfs
(002845) [10:15:26] % mount /var/lib/waydroid/images/vendor.img /var/lib/waydroid/rootfs/vendor
(002845) [10:15:26] % mount -o remount,ro /var/lib/waydroid/images/vendor.img /var/lib/waydroid/rootfs/vendor
(002845) [10:15:26] % mount -o bind /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid.prop /var/lib/waydroid/rootfs/vendor/waydroid.prop
(002845) [10:15:26] Save config: /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid.cfg
(002845) [10:15:26] % mkdir -p /var/lib/waydroid/data
(002845) [10:15:26] % mount -o bind /home/user/.local/share/waydroid/data /var/lib/waydroid/data
(002845) [10:15:26] % chmod 777 -R /dev/dri
(002845) [10:15:26] % chmod 777 -R /dev/fb0
(002845) [10:15:26] % chmod 777 -R /dev/video3
(002845) [10:15:26] % chmod 777 -R /dev/video2
(002845) [10:15:26] % chmod 777 -R /dev/video1
(002845) [10:15:26] % chmod 777 -R /dev/video0
(002845) [10:15:26] % lxc-start -P /var/lib/waydroid/lxc -F -n waydroid -- /init
(002845) [10:15:26] New background process: pid=3465, output=background
(002845) [10:15:27] waiting 10 seconds for container to start...
lxc-start: waydroid: ../src/lxc/utils.c: safe_mount: 1220 No such file or directory - Failed to mount "/dev/ashmem" onto "/usr/lib/lxc/rootfs/dev/ashmem"
(002845) [10:15:28] waiting 9 seconds for container to start...
(002845) [10:15:29] Save session config: /var/lib/waydroid/session.cfg
(003923) [10:22:36] Failed to get service waydroidplatform, trying again...
(003923) [10:22:37] Failed to get service waydroidplatform, trying again...
(003923) [10:22:38] Failed to get service waydroidplatform, trying again...
lxc-start: waydroid: ../src/lxc/conf.c: run_buffer: 322 Script exited with status 126
lxc-start: waydroid: ../src/lxc/start.c: lxc_end: 985 Failed to run lxc.hook.post-stop for container "waydroid"
(003923) [10:22:39] Failed to get service waydroidplatform, trying again...
(003923) [10:22:40] Failed to get service waydroidplatform, trying again...

    Smartphone:

    Device: Pinephone OS: Postmarket OS phosh 22.12

    Prop file, located on /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid_base.prop (attached) Output of waydroid log (attached)

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        Administrator @root · Imported
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        Hi, is this eventually a duplicate of #1849 (closed) ?

        By Daniel Kulesz on 2023-02-11T11:34:02

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        I wonder why the user was allowed to make such an extremely basic post while i had to spend so much time collecting logs and searching the internet. The reason i didn't find his report is because he didn't make any effort mentioning the error messages. smdh My post shouldn't be considered a duplicate, especially when the effort here was clearly done.

        By TDK A on 2023-02-11T11:34:02

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        Administrator @root · Imported
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        Anyone is allowed to make issues here. While your issue has more logs than his and seemingly proves that ashmem is the problem, it is nonetheless a duplicate. The other issue already has discussion going on, and throwing that out in favour of your issue does not make sense. I will close this as a duplicate. If you want, you can add a comment with your logs in the other issue.

        By Newbyte on 2023-02-17T03:22:52

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        whatever

        By TDK A on 2023-02-17T03:16:59

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      Closing as duplicate of #1849 (closed).

      By Newbyte on 2023-02-16T11:50:57

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      @pinephonenoob, your efforts with the detailed bug report are very much appreciated. Just because this is marked as duplicate doesn't mean that the information in here is lost, it looks very useful to track this down. But please realize that an important part of reporting a bug is looking for similar bug reports first, and if they exist, add your information there rather than making a new one. This is how it works in all software projects, it's essential to handle the big amount of bug reports coming in.

      So others did this part for you and pointed out that there is already a bug report, don't be mad at them or the original issue. This duplicate issue is now linked there and the information can be looked up.

      You are also welcome to contribute in the original issue to help with tracking this down further or sending in a patch that actually fixes it if you can. That would be the fastest way to get it fixed. There is a huge amount of things to improve in postmarketOS and not everybody is that interested in android compatibility, which is why nobody has fixed / analyzed it more yet.

      By Oliver Smith on 2023-02-17T08:29:19

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