Xenial rc fails to boot on Meizu MX4

Lakotaubp · 7 Jul 2018, 05:53

@thepossessor I am very unhappy to report that having a Luxembourg time zone stuffs up your mx4.
Just tried it and no boot up past Meizu bright white screen. if anyone wants to try that time zone on another model fell free and post back here. Will update bug report if not today tomorrow, possibly after reflashing my mx4.: (

ThePossessor · 6 Jul 2018, 20:38

@lakotaubp I hope you had a backup somewhere.

The positive side is that you can now confirm the bug on bugtracker .

Sorry again your phone got stuck too.

Lakotaubp · 6 Jul 2018, 20:52

@thepossessor
No problem its good to confirm this, though why pick on Luxembourg I'm not sure ; ) Joking apart is it a Luxembourg thing or a UTC +2 thing and an mx4 only issue or are more device affected. Maybe someone else is UTC +2 without issue and can let us know. Again might try another device tomorrow but not sure yet.
As for the mx4 I'd left that in basic setup to play about with anyway so no great problem. So I guess you don't want my phone now

advocatux · 6 Jul 2018, 20:58

@lakotaubp we have UTC+1 and UTC+2 here in Spain. No problem with krillin or hammerhead devices.

ThePossessor · 6 Jul 2018, 21:00

@lakotaubp Other UTC +2 seem to work fine (e.g. Berlin) Also other devices (e.g N5) have no issue with Luxembourg. I am not sure if there is other timezones affected (there is so many)

Haha I don't need your phone then indeed.

Lakotaubp · 6 Jul 2018, 21:04

Right then its only people in Luxembourg with an mx 4. Good job we don't know anyone like that then. : )

ThePossessor · 6 Jul 2018, 21:05

@lakotaubp please post your experience in bugtracker: [xenial] rc fails to boot on Meizu MX4 #696

Lakotaubp · 6 Jul 2018, 21:06

@thepossessor will do prob tomorrow now reflashing mx at present then bedtime for me.

Lakotaubp · 6 Jul 2018, 21:12

@thepossessor Have done it just now. Goodnight

ThePossessor · 6 Jul 2018, 21:14

@lakotaubp thanks alot

advocatux · 7 Jul 2018, 08:32

@thepossessor out of curiosity, if you type locale on your phone terminal? What's the output?

ThePossessor · 7 Jul 2018, 08:55

@advocatux right now I am using german, but the effect is the same with english.

advocatux · 7 Jul 2018, 12:54

@thepossessor thank you. I'm asking because I don't know why on xenial (on vivid works fine) setting my phone to Spanish gives me en_US.UTF-8 as locale.

Edit: I was wrong, there's the same issue on vivid.

Lakotaubp · 7 Jul 2018, 09:47

@advocatux That little Spanish enclave of Texas and New Mexico?

advocatux · 7 Jul 2018, 09:51

@lakotaubp

Yes, I was thinking about something like that, but now my phone is under an El Alamo situation. I'm reinstalling UT with wipe option to see if I can reproduce the issue

Lakotaubp · 7 Jul 2018, 09:54

@advocatux Mine is en_GB.UTF-8

advocatux · 7 Jul 2018, 09:55

@lakotaubp okay, thank you!

Lakotaubp · 7 Jul 2018, 09:56

@advocatux My nexus with the above was a none wipe. Will check the mx4 later thats been well wiped

advocatux · 7 Jul 2018, 10:36

@lakotaubp to see the current state of the art, I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and the latest snap installer this time. So far I've got 2 errors, something about a problem with eaccess that I ignored, and another one when the installation stopped due to some "download error, checksum did not match on file".

I've deleted the cache, and I'm trying again

Edit: it worked flawlessly the second time

advocatux · 7 Jul 2018, 12:59

Just to keep you updated, I filed this bug report https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/751

In short, when checking out locale on the device it gives you the right answer but if you use adb shell the answer is always en_US.UTF-8 because that's what is set in stone on /etc/default/locale (wrongly)