Xenial rc fails to boot on Meizu MX4

[ThePossessor]

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

[Lakotaubp]

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

[Lakotaubp]

@thepossessor Have done it just now. Goodnight

[ThePossessor]

@lakotaubp thanks alot

[advocatux]

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

[ThePossessor]

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

[advocatux]

@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]

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

[advocatux]

@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]

@advocatux Mine is en_GB.UTF-8

[advocatux]

@lakotaubp okay, thank you!

[Lakotaubp]

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

[advocatux]

@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]

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)

[TartanSpartan]

Works ok for me, using a bespoke Ubuntu (not-Android) model of the MX4.

[ThePossessor]

@Lakotaubp just to keep you posted.

Last night's update seems to have fixed the boot failure problem. Now only 1 of 10 boot attempts fails. The next attempt then is ok again .

Back to normal.

[Lakotaubp]

@thepossessor Thanks for letting me know, and a big welcome back to the Luxembourg timezone