@doniks I booted the phone, left it alone for roughly 15 minutes then connected and got the outputs for you, I tried lxc-android-config instead of systemctl and got a "command not found" error. heres the outputs for you:

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/vXjbTk7Xdr/

let me know what you think I might be doing wrong or missing.

Thank You

Edit:

I noticed the output of find this time is much smaller than what I got last time, but again, I connected to the phone (it reset connection a couple times which is the errors at the top of the log output) and ran the commands you asked me too and copy and pasted

@doniks said in Porting to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910P:

@tigerpro said in Porting to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910P:

output of mount:

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/gpmj9H43NN/

there's two outputs of mount in there, with different result. what's the difference? how much time was there approx in between?

and if i do find /root/var/lib/lxc/android/ /var/lib/lxc/android/. it gives me a list as if I typed ls

exactly. could you paste the result. it's to check whether the mounting of the android container is successful

The second one was maybe a minute after the first one, I had some lag going on cause I was using a vnc connection at the time and it just spammed both. I'm not in front of my desk ATM but I will get that output for you when I get home from work

@doniks said in Porting to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910P:

@tigerpro said in Porting to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910P:

I totally get why you want to stick to one thing at a time. I'm in the same place really :) Still, in time when you get to it, it might offer some insight and it will teach yourself where to look and what to check. Could easily be that the halium rootfs does not (yet) (fully) work with halium-boot, so you would be back at hybris-boot :)

As for immediate next steps ...

Can you post the output of mount and find /root/var/lib/lxc/android/ /var/lib/lxc/android/.

output of mount:

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/gpmj9H43NN/
and if i do find /root/var/lib/lxc/android/ /var/lib/lxc/android/. it gives me a list as if I typed ls

@doniks said in Porting to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910P:

@tigerpro

1. I see
   [ 3.874744] initrd: WARNING: Failed to mount Android system.img.
   Can you post the output of mount and find /root/var/lib/lxc/android/ /var/lib/lxc/android/. Please use some pastebin service like https://paste.ubuntu.com/ rather than google doc
2. Can you get to the spinning spiral if you boot halium rootfs, following the guide?
3. Did you try plasma mobile?
4. For UT, did you do this: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/building-ubports-boot.html#build-the-image

For 1 I don't how I missed that when I was looking through the dmesg, if I had seen that I could have tried fixing that. I haven't tried the halium rootfs cause I have heard that the tests in the halium rootfs don't work with halium-boot so I thought trying that would be a moot point. I haven't tried plasma mobile as I wanted to try and get one roots working before I try others, and I tried to boot ubports-boot but I only get to a telnet spot, halium-boot gets to a ssh spot. Based o your feedback and the entry you pointed out, I'm thinking I still have a Mount point issue which means I have to try a different Mount point entry for for /data and maybe /boot even though halium-boot would only give me telnet until I changed /dev/block/by-name/<block> to /dev/<block> in the fstab.qcom file. Any advice on what I can try next?

@doniks heres a link hot off the google docs of the freshest halium-boot, i got no idea what im looking at but thats a full dmesg:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CFQldnHxsCo75jRnjFUSfEDQKs4L6plMpfzM04__yjc/edit?usp=sharing

@doniks I actually figure out my networking issue this morning, I re-compiled halium-boot, but I had to specify my boot partition as well cause it was booting to telnet (wasn't reading the "serial" as I did t realize something changed) so now I'm back to trying to figure out the GUI. From the commands I got through telegram, it appears as though the container isn't starting like of should be, hoping I can figure that out soon.

So an update, I compiled halium-boot, which successfully boots, loads Ubuntu gives me ssh, but the phone stays on the power on screen. I do have a few tips to try and fix it, but I am at least making progress, then I managed to break my ssh access so now I gotta fix that before I can move forward. The problem I get is that when I assign a IP on my developer machine, it gives me a "no route to host" error, and with lsusb it says google device for my phone I stead of Sony device, not sure its related but it is all I can find for clues to whether or not it will let me connect.

@flohack OK you can stop twisting my arm lol jk ;) I signed up for telegram as well, I don't know of I'll be able to pay any more attention to it or not, but at least I'm now on it. I haven't had a chance to work on my data Mount point yet as I've been busy with family obligations, but I do intend to look at it in the coming days.

@flohack I am not, I am however in the Halium IRC, although admittedly I have not looked at it in a few days

@doniks oh, I did not know that, I will definitely have to keep an eye out for it. I agree waiting for the changes to be less sporadic is a good idea, otherwise you could end up compiling something that is outdated before you even finish compiling it, which gets annoying very quickly IMO. I'll let ya know how my next attempt goes, hopefully much better.