MMS issue with the lomiri messaging app

gpatel-fr

did you try to delete all these spinning wheel messages ?

lduboeuf

@laaglu said:

Hello,

I am having a problem with the lomiri messaging app (Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS / lomiri-messaging-app 2.0.1+0~20250905202428.1+ubports24.04.1~1.gbp83639a) on a fairphone 5. SMS work fine, but
I tried sending a MMS with 4 pictures to a contact. The message did not go through (wheel icon spinning indefinitely). Now all subsequent SMS to the same contact also display the wheel icon spinning indefinitely (the pipepline in clogged). Other SMS to other contacts work fine.

How can I reset the pipeline / cache or whatever data is stuck so that I can resume sending regular SMS to my contact ?
Many thanks
Lukas

Some logs may help. You said that SMS to that contact worked before sending MMS ?
Sounds weird. Last work around, is like @gpatel-fr said, removing the Thread or the individual message that can cause issue.

laaglu

@lduboeuf

Many thanks for the suggestions & help

Actually, when I got the problem, at first I tried removing the whole conversation. Then, I tried sending another SMS to the same contact, which re-created a new conversation, but that SMS got stuck too (spinning wheel), which made me think there was some service lomiri-messaging relied on that was somehow stuck, maybe ofono (pure conjecture on my behalf).

Following your sugestion (a few hours later), I tried to delete the blocked message, then again the whole conversation, and then sent another SMS to the same contact and this time, it worked. So AFAIK, problem solved, but I do not know why.

I tried to look at the traces by doing a journalctl | grep lomiri-messaging > somefile.txt but I got 2MB worth of traces. I tried to grep -i 'error' or 'invalid' but I do not know exactly what to look for. Lines which appear suspicious to me (but may be completely unrelated) are:

juin 02 14:38:27 ubuntu-phablet lomiri-messaging-app[95339]: QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 19 and type 'Read', disabling...
...

juin 04 17:58:56 ubuntu-phablet lomiri-messaging-app[16850]: file:///usr/share/lomiri-messaging-app//MessagesListView.qml:87: TypeError: Cannot read property 'left' of null
...

juin 04 12:05:42 ubuntu-phablet lomiri-messaging-app[11099]: error calling result "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type="method_call", sender=":1.103" (uid=32011 pid=11099 comm="lomiri-messaging-app message:+XXXXXXX" label="lomiri-messaging-app (enforce)") interface="com.lomiri.libertine.Service.OperationsMonitor" member="result" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="com.lomiri.libertine.Service" (uid=32011 pid=4480 comm="/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/libertined" label="unconfined")"
juin 04 12:05:42 ubuntu-phablet lomiri-messaging-app[11099]: lastError - no arguments?
...

No sure this is much help. I will experiment again with MMS and post back on this thread if find something useful

lduboeuf

@laaglu
Are you on 24.04.2.x daily ? because 24.04.4 LTS doesn't exist on UT.
Also which device ?

Never heard of such issue. Or maybe with volTE or if you set on Android previously RCS message, the provider think you are still with this setting ?

laaglu

@lduboeuf
I installed the devices a week ago (a fairphone 5) from the linux ubports-installer_0.11.2_linux_x86_64.appimage. I picked the stable channel
I have not installed anything manually since that (with an apt-get I mean)
I just used the AppStore to install a few apps

The contents of my /etc/lsb-release indicate:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS"

In the settings UI, it says
Update channel:
24-04-1.x/arm64/android9plus/stable
Os version:
24-04-1.3

gpatel-fr

@laaglu

did you ever succeed in sending a MMS to any destination ? there is a known problem with MMS when on Wifi.

Keneda

@laaglu said:

I have not installed anything manually since that (with an apt-get I mean)

Don't use apt-get on Ubuntu Touch (you can't "out of the box", but this is possible somehow) unless you're willing to risk some problems doing so, you can even break the OS.

ChromiumOS-Guy

@Keneda to expand:
package managers on UT are actually quite plentiful, its just that apt-get cannot be used normally because the root is immutable and the system partition on an android phone is cramped so installing anything will brick or break the system permenantly.

apt can be used natively with a tool called crackle which will let you download packages as user to the userdata partition and handles all the pathing for that, not all packages will work.

snap works out of the box.

you can use crackle to install nix or if you prefer a more fleshed out experiance with package search and generation managment, you can install NixManager (NixManager is an openstore app of mine).

you can install flatpak with nix but from my test most things do not render correctly so its currently not useful.

you can also use LIbertine to install apt packages in a container which will act as a normal linux env.

to anwser OP, I had this issue as well it seems the trigger is pictures if you send a picture it crashes like that. as for a fix? at least for me rebooting the phone after deleting the offending messages fixed it.

gpatel-fr

@ChromiumOS-Guy

agree with you and @keneda on apt usage - any naive usage of apt is very dangerous.

Can't agree on sending pictures with sms (mms is the word), it works out of the box if wifi is disabled (that is, only cellular network is used).

laaglu

Actually wifi was on when I tried sending my MMS. I was not aware of that limitation, so that might be the root cause. I have sent other MMS to the same contact since and they work fine. Probably the issue can be marked solved, I do not know how to do that / who can do that

@ChromiumOS-Guy, many thanks for all the advice on package managers and restrictions on using apt-get. I am glad I posted my issue on the forum, I am learning a lot of interesting stuff. Thanks a lot everybody