@eduardo So what finally happened was I went and did a complete restore using an Android image. Even then, and this may have been the problem all along, There was a problem mounting the Data partition and I had to repair that. After Android was installed I ran UBports again and now it is fine. Thank you for your help.

thanks for the procedure, but it didn't work. it continues to perform the installation and then sits on the recovery screen until I either choose reboot or power down. It then seem to try to boot again and again the google logo appears for about 8 seconds and continues to continue repeating until I force it off by holding the power button.

Have a similar problem. Only the installation seems to go allright, but at the end it goes to the recovery screen and just stays there. I finally hit the Reboot system now and it ended up just coming back on and going to the Google logo then off then the Google logo again. This repeated multiple times before I used the power button to turn it off