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Unable to start alien dalvik

asked 2015-12-08 23:27:06 +0300

Holger gravatar image

Since some time I encounter situations being unable to start the alien dalvik service. I think it's since the 1.9 or 2.0 upgrade. It does not happen so often though. After a reboot it works again. Some idea how to get additional info what happens?

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Maybe if you give some more input about your phone and installed software, otherwise we have to guess.

Well, then I will guess as follows: You want to uninstall google's play store and services and don't install any untrusted, foreign software.

Moo-Crumpus ( 2015-12-09 12:50:55 +0300 )edit

I also have this bug. I can't find a way to reproduce it with 100% success rate. All I can say is that I start Android support every morning and turn it off usually after my day at work, or at the latest, when going to sleep. I actually had to reboot my phone this morning, I had an uptime of 11 days.

Elioty ( 2015-12-10 01:15:22 +0300 )edit

@Moo-Crumpus: sorry for lacking further infos. I have only Whatsapp installed as Android app and Osmand~. No google playstore.

Edit: I forgot the Aptoide store, which I have installed too.

Holger ( 2015-12-10 03:55:37 +0300 )edit

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answered 2015-12-11 10:19:37 +0300

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updated 2015-12-11 10:21:13 +0300

Also had this problem. The alien-pre-start service seems to crash or shutdown and does not restart on its own. So if you have developer mode activated you can open up a terminal and execute

devel-su
systemctl-user restart alien-pre-start

After that normal restart or start of alien dalvik either in the settings or via terminal should work again.

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@leszek: ok, thanks for that info. Will try, when it happens the next time.

Holger ( 2015-12-11 20:38:04 +0300 )edit

@leszek: I will try it as well next time the problem occurs ;)

Elioty ( 2015-12-12 01:05:39 +0300 )edit

Didn't help here:

alien-pre-start.service - Myriad Alien Dalvik Pre-Start
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/alien-pre-start.service; disabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2015-12-14 16:24:33 CET; 51min ago
Process: 17678 ExecStart=/opt/alien/system/script/alien_pre_start.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 17678 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

aliendalvik stopped working over night and reboot, battery out and reinstalling didn't help. Apparently there are some problems with java and com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService in start_alien.sh Can someone help, please? Status of aliendalvik is loaded but inactive (dead)

J4ZZ ( 2015-12-14 18:23:06 +0300 )edit

This is my status output of aliendavlik.service

aliendalvik.service - Myriad Alien Dalvik
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/aliendalvik.service; enabled)
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/aliendalvik.service.d
           └─sdcard.conf
   Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2015-12-14 14:43:35 CET; 36min ago
  Process: 13551 ExecStopPost=/system/script/alien_ui_pid_reporter.sh stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 13537 ExecStopPost=/system/script/alien_notification_cleaner.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 13532 ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/killall alien_settings_server (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 13308 ExecStartPost=/system/script/alien_ui_pid_reporter.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 13307 ExecStart=/system/script/start_alien.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 13289 ExecStartPre=/system/script/alien_start_guard.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 13307 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/aliendalvik.service

Jolla start_alien.sh[13307]:... E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService.<init>(ActivityManagerService.java:1616)
E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService.<init>(ActivityManagerService.java:176)
E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.server.am.ActivityManagerService$AThread.run(ActivityManagerService.java:1487)
E AndroidRuntime: Error reporting crash
E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.NullPointerException
E AndroidRuntime: at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$UncaughtHandler.uncaughtException(RuntimeInit.java:76)
E AndroidRuntime: at java.lang.ThreadGroup.uncaughtException(ThreadGroup.java:693)
E AndroidRuntime: at java.lang.ThreadGroup.uncaughtException(ThreadGroup.java:690)
Jolla systemd[1]: Stopping Myriad Alien Dalvik...
Jolla systemd[1]: Stopped Myriad Alien Dalvik.
J4ZZ ( 2015-12-14 18:28:10 +0300 )edit

Got it running again by using the old cleanup procedure see step 3 and 4Don't touch /opt/alien/ !!! ;)

J4ZZ ( 2015-12-24 00:38:23 +0300 )edit
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