[Beta] Pixel 2 installer config

flohack

We know there is a problem with Pixel 2, only Pixel 2 XL seems to work at this time. I will take down the config for walleye. And yes, I need debug assistances, it would involve using telnet adb and ssh, to see where we are in the boot process, also using boots with the volumen and power buttons multiple times, using fastboot boot to temporarily boot a kernel etc.
If some of you can help with this I can give some instructions maybe

BifPowers

@flohack I have experience with ssh and adb. Telnet would be new to me. I don't have much experience beyond flashing Android ROMs, but I would like to help where I can.

flohack

@bifpowers Ok in which timezone you are in?

BifPowers

@flohack I'm in Eastern Time. I should have some time tomorrow evening to troubleshoot.

flohack

@bifpowers Ok I will write up some explanations for you later

flohack

Alright here are some generic steps to see where we are:

Check that kernel actually boots correctly:

On your host, enter dmesg -w and then power up the device
connect your USB cable. See if the host sees a new USB device
IF there are any messages about RNDIS coming up, try to ping 192.168.2.15 or 10.15.19.82 and eventually try either telnet on 192.168.2.15 or ssh (with user phablet) on 10.15.19.82

BifPowers

@flohack Unfortunately I'm not getting anything from any of those steps. I'm on Windows 10 currently, and tried with both PowerShell and WSL Ubuntu.

Jay Ajit Mate

I'm on arch linux and using the appimage installer. It gets stuck on "preparing system image/mounting partitions'
tried using an ubuntu vm -same problem

flohack

HOLY CRAP!
I did not see that this devicetree uses 2 kernel configs for each device. I only patched the one for XL. I push now some changes to add also muskie.

Can someone in roughly 24hrs from now try again to install Pixel 2? I bet its working then

BR Florian

agates

@flohack best email I've gotten all week! Will give it a shot.

flohack

Here is the instruction how to flash:

Download https://ci.ubports.com/job/UBportsCommunityPortsJenkinsCI/job/ubports%252Fcommunity-ports%252Fjenkins-ci%252Fwalleye-taimen/job/main/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/halium-boot_walleye.img and flash this with fastboot flash boot halium-boot_walleye.img

Good Luck!

i2097i

@flohack

I am unable to get past the recovery step. Everything seems to work, I reboot to recovery and I can interact with the UBports recovery mode interface but it never continues from that point. Any ideas?

Update: It seems to hang on the

Preparing system image
Mounting partitions...

section after the reboot to recovery (screenshot attached).

It could be that I am not giving it enough time so I am going to leave it throughout the night. Here is the verbose output of my UBPorts session:

...
info: Downloading 8 files
info: Downloaded file 1 of 8
info: Downloaded file 2 of 8
info: Downloaded file 3 of 8
info: Downloaded file 4 of 8
info: Downloaded file 5 of 8
info: Downloaded file 6 of 8
info: Downloaded file 7 of 8
info: Downloaded file 8 of 8
verbose: running core action write
verbose: running adb action wait
verbose: running adb action preparesystemimage

Thanks!

Screenshot from 2021-09-02 23-45-23.png

flohack

Pixel 2 does not boot into UI anyways, I would ask you to wait a bit until we can get this sorted out finally. If you like, you can help debugging it maybe, if you are ok with using adb and fastboot directly.

flohack

Ok guys lets try a different approach. Can you please enter fastboot, flash that image into boot: https://twoot.bin.org.in/nextcloud/index.php/s/mzfmYJscqPyM2Bc with fastboot flash boot boot.img - so far so old.
Now: DO NOT reboot, but select Boot to recovery. Does this bring up our UT recovery screen?

Thanks!

i2097i

@flohack

Booted to fastboot
ran fastboot flash boot boot.img with this img

I am not sure what is meant by DO NOT reboot, but select Boot to recovery. After running the fastboot command should I just use volume up/down to make the recovery reboot option be visible? Not sure if it is supposed to do something at that point.

flohack

@i2097i Yes exactly, select manually the recovery option.

i2097i

@Flohack
yes, if I press the power button on recovery, it boots to UBPorts Recovery.

I also wanted to mention that I let this run all night and it was still on the verbose: running adb action preparesystemimage when I woke up this morning.

flohack

@i2097i Oh yes please dont do that, to not damage your display if its not turned off by recovery - the install will not take longer than a few minutes, otherwise its broken
Ok but good to hear, we have a working recovery...

So actually the kernel is fine. Can you do the following then:

Boot into recovery
Check with adb devices that you can see the device
use adb shell to gain shell access into the recovery
Issue a mount data that should get userdata online
Do a ls -la /data and paste the result here

Thanks!

i2097i

@Flohack The screen does turn off after a certain amount of time so my display is all good!

Here is the output:

: adb shell
root@walleye:/ # ^C                                                                                                                                                                          
130|root@walleye:/ # pwd
/
root@walleye:/ # ls -la /data
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 0 1970-01-01 00:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 0 1973-04-20 00:54 ..
root@walleye:/ #

/data is empty it seems.

flohack

@i2097i Did you mount data? can you check with simply typing mount ? Its unlikely that it is fully empty