asked 2019-11-21 23:48:47 +0200
Did anyone of you succeed installing defender on Xperia 10 and rebooting the phone after that? I just reflashed Sailfish X numerous times to figure out why the device stops booting and I think I have tracked it down to the defender app.
answered 2020-02-02 22:59:14 +0200
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To get the phone booting again (without reflashing), I did this:
chroot /rootfs /bin/bashrpm -e harbour-defender to uninstall the app. It will detect a chroot and not perform some steps (not sure which ones), but reverting the file changes should suffice.Ctrl-D.Ctrl-D.back at the recovery menu, select the REBOOT option.
(Because there is no dbus/systemd available in a chroot or recovery mode, pkcon can not be used to uninstall things, so we use rpm directly here, which normally is NOT recommended.)
Thank you for this answer. As a humble carpet cleaner I really needed this step-by-step action.
FLM76 ( 2020-07-28 04:09:17 +0200 )editanswered 2020-06-10 16:42:12 +0200
Did just test with Xperia X, worked like a charm!
With encryption enabled? Like fully encrypted with lock code? That's not what we've observed
Sthocs ( 2020-06-11 00:22:58 +0200 )editAsked: 2019-11-21 23:48:47 +0200
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Would be great if you could get somehow an error output. The only thing that comes to my mind would be the activation of SELinux that could cause this software to fail. Though it should not stop the device from booting completely.
leszek ( 2019-11-22 02:43:05 +0200 )editWhere would you expect the error output? I don't think there will be any error on installation, otherwise that would already fail. After reboot I have no chance to get into the phone, it's completely dead and only the fastboot mode works to get it back to live. I could start a shell from the recovery, but I do not know where to search for a meanful error message.
inta ( 2019-11-22 09:29:02 +0200 )editSame here. Defender completely broke my 3.2.0.14 SailfishOS installation on my Xperia 10 Plus single SIM
ferlanero ( 2019-11-23 02:12:08 +0200 )editsame here with Xperia 10+ double sim and 3.2.1
pat_o ( 2019-12-30 17:01:39 +0200 )editI can't remember exactly how off the top of my head, but when developing a SFOS ROM you can debug boot by connecting your phone to your computer via USB. If I remember rightly, the device is presented as USB serial. This holds true all the way through kernel startup until it starts loading services. At that time it switchs to the default USB connection state so you continue the debuggjng process via SSH using something like
journalctl.Sorry this isn't exact, but it should point you in the right direction for debugging it. You'll find details in the manual for building SFOS.
ksandom ( 2020-01-07 00:34:32 +0200 )edit