Anbox - apps have no internet

hankschwie

@rocket2nfinity
What channel are you using? After an update of RC I usually have to go through the whole installation process again on my Fairphone 2.

rocket2nfinity

@hankschwie stable. Anbox runs as it always did, just no internet for all apps except fdroid. I found several posts on gitlab and Anbox forums with the same problem, but no solution.

hankschwie

Did you restart the device? Anbox is far from stable...

rocket2nfinity

@hankschwie Multiple times. At this point, I think I just need to groan and re-install everything.

I updated it, because I could not play videos in Anbox apps. There is a fix for that with Anbox, I applied it on my X86 tablet, and now I can watch videos and make VoIP calls on that tablet. I was hoping the same patch was included for the arm version. Instead, I just broke the network bridge somehow.

Strange though that fdroid still has internet access and the other apps don't.

mihael

I would like to have videos playing in anbox as well but now I am afraid to update... Anybody else updated their anbox? Are videos working? Is internet still working? By the way, I use anbox for whatsapp and I have internet. But I never had internet in any browser in anbox. Was your Internet working in a browser in anbox before?

rocket2nfinity

@mihael No, browsers never worked in Anbox, but I think I know why. I re-installed my anbox, paying attention to app permissions before and after. Quite a few apps I have discovered have custom permissions. So jitsi works, facebook works, other apps work, but browsers do not because of a custom permission applied. Before I start tampering with that, I need to figure out, first how my permissions changed when I updated, second why are the custom permissions set that way? It must have taken some time to go through apps and pick which ones had full internet access and which would not, so I'm wondering if I found the wall of the sandbox meant to protect UT from Anbox, and what are the ramifications if I mess with it?

rocket2nfinity

So, after further research, the premissions don't seem to be causing the trouble, it appears it may be a problem with the setup of the network bridge. This is the same problem that caused me to not be able to watch videos or use Voip on my x86 tablet. In that case, I could load webpages, but no video or audio streams would play, nor could I use the microphone or camera.

Someone with a higher level of knowledge of adb can hopefully figure out how to try this with Anbox in UT

https://superuser.com/questions/1395384/internet-not-working-in-anbox-on-ubuntu-18-04

@Flohack could you direct this to whomever has been working on Anbox? A similar fix got my mic and camera working on my x86 Anbox. Maybe it might work for UT

Rodnoq

@rocket2nfinity
Did you finally find a solution ?
I encounter quite the same problem on a fresh install of anbox on OTA-16. My apps doesn't seems to have access to internet, except F-Droïd which does.
It appears either with 4G or wifi

This is what i tried to figured out where is the problem :

First some infos about anbox :
anbox system-info and anbox-tool status : https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/rchMv6RBWc/

I tried to ping www.google.com, i works :

armv7-a-neon:/ $ ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (172.217.18.196) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ham02s14-in-f196.1e100.net (172.217.18.196): icmp_seq=1 ttl=113 time=17.2 ms

I tried to use anbox-bridge.sh but it doesn't seem to solve the problem :
this way :

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Documents$ anbox-tool status
Kernel: OK
System: OK
Enabled: YES
Running: YES
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Documents$ anbox-tool disable
[sudo] password for phablet:
Anbox is now disabled
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Documents$ sudo ./anbox-bridge.sh start
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Documents$ sudo anbox-tool enable
start: Job failed to start
start: Unknown job: anbox-session
Anbox is now enabled

or this way :

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ cd Documents/
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Documents$ sudo ./anbox-bridge.sh restart
[sudo] password for phablet:
anbox-bridge isn't running
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Documents$ anbox-tool
statusKernel: OK
System: OK
Enabled: NO
Running: NO
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Documents$ anbox-tool enable
start: Job is already running: anbox-container
start: Job is already running: anbox-session
Anbox is now enabled
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Documents$ anbox-tool status
Kernel: OK
System: OK
Enabled: YES
Running: NO

With both ways i can't launch any app in anbox. I need to restart UT.

I found an apparently similar case on anbox github :
https://github.com/anbox/anbox/issues/1226

Which finally refers to this one which is supposed to solve the problem :
https://github.com/anbox/anbox/pull/1081

But don't know how to apply it on UT.

rocket2nfinity

@rodnoq I got internet back by deleting Libertine, then re- installing Anbox. So, apps work except browsers and apps that are blocked by an xml permissions file in the android build preventing them from serving webpages to the app. I have not had time to investigate why it was done that way.

Phiibuntu

Hi (like Waydroid doesn't work for me I try andox )
OTA-20 Xiaomi redmi note 9S.
Anbox seems to work fine (installing f droid apk ok, and app works) but I don't have internet with anbox app. (even F-droid).

sudo ./anbox-bridge.sh start give me an error "syntax error:newline unexpected"

Impossible to have internet connexion with anbox app. If someone have an idea :)?

stanwood

@phiibuntu Hmmm weird, Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 S / Pro are in the working WayDroid device list...

Phiibuntu

I yes waydroid works in my xiaomi but then UT browser and other UT app doesn't work anymore.

Anyway I had a problem with my file anbox-bridge.sh (it was not the good file)
sorry.

Edit anbox-bridge.sh doesn't fix my network problem in anbox ...

j.mackay93

@phiibuntu I had this when I first got my UT xiaomi note 9s. I had made the system read/write, installed waydroud, got it working and then broke my UT apps. I think I must have done sudo apt upgrade and killed something. After a clean install, installing waydroid, and no upgrade everything is nice now.

This isn't really a solution, but I hope it helps!

Phiibuntu

@j-mackay93 said in Anbox - apps have no internet:

system read/write,

Thanks for information, but do you remerber want have you killed?
I make rw on system, then apt-upgrade
and now I have the same issue without waydroid install. Segmentation fault on UT app.

stanwood

@phiibuntu Mind to not confuse apt-update and apt-upgrade commands.

In Ubuntu Touch, one should NEVER make an apt-upgrade because this can upgrade unwanted packages that could brick your system.

At this point there's no revert method. You have to reinstall UT...

j.mackay93

@Phiibuntu yep just like @stanwood said, doing apt upgrade breaks things (morph, axolotl, messing for me) but apt update is alright. Probably best to start fresh again.

Also, i think you can easily and safely install waydroid through the waydroid helper app now. I havent done it, but i think i heard that it des all the hard work.

j.mackay93

@Phiibuntu so in the end all i did was

sudo -s
mount -o remount,rw /
apt install waydroid
waydroid init
reboot
sudo -s
waydroid container start
exit

And after that I had a happy Xiaomi UT20

Phiibuntu

thank you, on my phone waydroid helper make it unfunctionnal, but install waydroid this way works fine