Call for testing: A new way to ignore your problems

[ernest]

I think I was having some long boot/unity failing especially while remounting my encrypted home.
The install went fine, reboot too, restarting unity8 seems faster/smoother.
Does this install is erased after a system upgrade ?

[Giiba]

I will test this tomorrow a bit.

So far I have found a work-around for my OPO. If I reboot Unity8 never starts it just keeps looping as you described, unless...

I wait for the purple unity splash, then just as it dims the screen (as auto brightness comes online I assume) if I turn off the screen via the power button and wait 20-30sec for the boot to finish, when I turn on the screen I am greeted with a working lockscreen and all is well.

I have had to do this at most reboots since switching to dev after OTA11. If I don't, the phone eventually boots aftet 5-10mins if looping.

[Krille]

Trying this on the Sony Xperia X now. Mostly had reboots when using too much webapps.

[Giiba]

Installed without complaint this morning and so far 3 boots have gone flawlessly (from the user perspective). Not bad.

[dieharddan]

THANK YOU! success with oneplus one on the latest release of the edge channel

[flohack]

Seems it works fine for me on OPO...

[danfro]

Tested on BQ E5 running dev with todays update installed before the test.
Sadly I do still get the SIM pin dialog skipped now on 2 out of 5 reboots.

I hope I am not mixing up things. This is (too) what this fix is about, isn't it?

[UniSuperBox]

@danfro, no, not really.

[Giiba]

I switched to stable and back this weekend to fix an issue of contacts syncing, and when I got back to devel it worked as before with the screen needing to be turned off for unity to boot. I applied this fix and all is well again.

[UniSuperBox]

Thanks, everyone. We've merged this change and the fix should appear in tomorrow's images.