@diagon Good Morning or whatever time of day it is where you are. Firstly no agenda, spin or underlying plan/scheme behind my decisions at all ever. That is not what we are about. Next I think @AppLee has expanded on the main reasons your post has been highlighted twice now. Except for this point and it might help. There is always an argument about removing links for whatever reason from threads unless they are totally and obviously offensive. Yours were getting flagged as spam so what to do. This time they were removed but I believe there is enough info left for people to do their own web search to find out where you are coming from without leaving them or the forum open to potential spam links. As I have already said if you have reasons you prefer to use Signal over Telegram fine, please expand on them in a way no matter how technical and involved. A long list of links is not a reason for or against. We try hard to keep political and non UT dscussions off this Forum as it is not what it is here for and there are other and better places for that. We have no objection to robust discussion (and there have been a few) as long as it is conducted in a polite and friendly way. So please enjoy and feel to contribute along those lines. We also use this for reference https://ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct

I tried that with --dry-run, but it just sits there and does nothing after this output. $ sudo system-image-cli -vn -p 0 --progress dots [systemimage] Jan 09 19:09:17 2021 (14794) No valid image master key found, downloading [systemimage] Jan 09 19:09:17 2021 (14794) [0x7f8a04f2e8] Requesting group download: https://system-image.ubports.com/gpg/image-master.tar.xz -> /android/cache/recovery/keyring.tar.xz https://system-image.ubports.com/gpg/image-master.tar.xz.asc -> /android/cache/recovery/keyring.tar.xz.asc [systemimage] Jan 09 19:09:17 2021 (14794) Allow GSM? Yes [systemimage] Jan 09 19:09:17 2021 (14794) [/com/canonical/applications/download/d29afe0d54bd4ff491b888d395f48287] Running group download reactor [systemimage] Jan 09 19:09:17 2021 (14794) self: <UDMDownloadManager at 0x7f8a04f2e8>, self._iface: <Interface <ProxyObject wrapping <dbus._dbus.SystemBus (system) at 0x7f8a0404c0> :1.134 /com/canonical/applications/download/d29afe0d54bd4ff491b888d395f48287 at 0x7f8a04f358> implementing 'com.canonical.applications.GroupDownload' at 0x7f8a04f3c8> Then it times out with: Exception occurred during dry-run; see log file for details [systemimage] Jan 09 19:19:17 2021 (14794) system-image-cli exception Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/systemimage/main.py", line 365, in main state.run_until('download_files') File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/systemimage/state.py", line 179, in run_until step() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/systemimage/state.py", line 210, in _get_blacklist_1 'image-master', 'gpg/image-master.tar.xz', 'archive-master') File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/systemimage/keyring.py", line 107, in get_keyring (ascxz_src, ascxz_dst), File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/systemimage/download.py", line 209, in get_files self._get_files(records, pausable, signal_started) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/systemimage/udm.py", line 179, in _get_files raise TimeoutError TimeoutError Just running system-image-cli --list-channels also just freezes.