Hi guys,

I'm trying to figure out how I can dualboot my Nexus 10 with an image from Ubports

I currently have a dualboot through Canonical's Dualboot Installer app in Android, running a very old an discontinued version of Ubuntu Touch (April 2015 i think) as described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/DualBootInstallation

learning about Ubports' efforts to make a working Nexus 10 image, i wanted to have a looksee

The abovementioned site describes a way to use a custom image server (in this case Ubports' server) but i can't get it to work.
This is my preferred way, because it preserves my current Android installation.

so my question is:

Can anyone help me with the right way to point to Ubports' server, or tell me about better ways to dualboot (and preferrably keep my Android setup intact)?

This is what i did up to now:
I took the server location from Ubports' install script:
sudo ubuntu-device-flash --server=http://system-image.ubports.com touch --channel=ubuntu-touch/stable --device=manta --bootstrap

and pasted it into the command found on the wiki:
adb shell "su sh 'cd /data/data/com.canonical.ubuntu.installer/files/ && echo $CUSTOM_SERVER_URL > custom_server && chmod 777 custom_server'"

creating:
adb shell "su sh 'cd /data/data/com.canonical.ubuntu.installer/files/ && echo $http://system-image.ubports.com > custom_server && chmod 777 custom_server'"

the custom_server file is created, but the installer doesn't give me any new channels to install.
Am I just missing some things, or am I just embarrassing myself here?

Hi, I can’t imagine no one has noticed this yet but couldn’t find anything about it yet. Feel free to merge/move this to where it belongs

Ever since updating to 16.04/devel, once libertine started working again, it works differently from how it was in 15.04.

It used to open everything an app did in the same window. Even new apps started by an app, like when you launch gedit from terminal. This was cumbersome, but the new situation is the other extreme: everything, tooltips, drop down menus, right-click menus, dialogue boxes, everything opens in a new window. Some middle road must be able to be achieved?

See also the github issue I made for it. https://github.com/ubports/libertine/issues/10

Does anyone have this problem too, and is there any way to fix it? Is this an xmir/mir/Xorg thing?

@moem @Flohack

sure, i'll stay on rc or maybe move to dev to help test or dig up logs that may be of interest, as long as my phone keeps working. i just got a 'project' of sorts today that needs me to be on call for the coming week (given your stated schedule that shouldn't be problem )

just lemme know if i can help

@flohack

that is sad news for the few UT+pebble users. but understandibly if it's great news for a lot of new devices then i see where the priorities are, and rightfully so.

at least we learned something. thanks for your time

@moem
from what little i understand, i think a specific filesystem overlay would do what we want, provide a cusom bluez stack on one device while leaving the image for that port intact.

someone would need to create that overlay and maintain it, for every affected port, test it against new OTA's and adapt it accordingly, and the user would need to implement the overlay in their device after every OTA manually.

oof

@flohack

Here's the log for dev:
pebbledumpdev-summary.pdf
pebbledumpdev.pdf
pebbledumpdev.log
bluetoothctl terminal output

and here's the log for stable:
pebbledumpstable-summary.pdf
pebpledumpstable.pdf
bluetoothctl terminal output

stable connected fabulously , from what i could see, rc and dev failed in the exact same way...