Testers wanted - newer kernel for FP2 - Lineage 16.0 and 17.1

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If you know how to flash a boot image, can you please test the kernel updated to 3.4.113 and android-common report back? [1]
You need to “fastboot flash boot boot.img” this on an existing lineage 16.0 / 17.1 installation. [2]

Version for 16.0 (as of 16th March):
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=4349826312261746343

Version for 17.1 (as of 5th April):
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=4349826312261762567
Source: https://github.com/chrmhoffmann/android_kernel_fairphone_msm8974
Branch: staging/lineage-17.1/last-attempt-to-merge-android-common

Chris

[1] This time it’s rebased not merged, so we have better chances to bisect it, if something breaks.
[2] If you dont know what this means, you shouldn’t test it.

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2 SIMs, 256G SD Card with 2 partitions, rooted LOS 16 nightly 05.03.2020 with opengapps 9.0 nano 06.03.2020, no user interaction: reboots after 90sec.

Reboot also happens without second SIM and without SD Card.

Back to LOS kernel and everything’s fine again.

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Basically the same here: reboot after a short time, with or without user interaction.
LOS 16.0-20200309, opengapps 9.0-pico-20190411, no SIM, no SD-card, only connected to WiFi.
No problem after going back to the original boot.img

If you want, I can upload a logcat (if that’s helpful).

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Can you point us to a changelog or repo to look at? Which version were we on before this one? Thanks for your valuable work!

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You can check yourself on your phone… I think all versions are on 3.4.0.

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In case it might interest you, @chrmhoffmann : same problem as others here had (reboot after about 60s without user interaction) after starting boot partition modified /e/ OS based on LOS 16. Restore of original boot partition restored working system.
Anyway, thanks for your valuable work!

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Hmmmm. Crap. I tried more combinations - Official Lineage + opengapps + downloaded boot.img. All works fine.

Can someone please upload:

  • logcat
  • cat /proc/last_kmsg (e.g. from recovery - right after boot crash)?

Chris

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Here are the files for my setup (replace pdf -> txt):

last_kmsg.pdf (118.9 KB)
logcat.pdf (568.5 KB)

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Just out of curiosity, what’s the use of two partitions here?

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First partition is FAT32 to keep Android happy, second partition is ext4 for files >4GB, symbolic links a.s.o.

and BTW: I can also use that same SD card to boot an ordinary x86PC into Linux :wink:

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https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=306245

Uploaded 3.4.10, .20, .30

Can you please try one by one :)?

Chris

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I’m sorry. I’ve tried out all three of them - and at least in my case all leaded to the reboot described above too.
Hope there will be more success with the other testers.

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I only tested the 3.4.10 kernel because it already showed the reboot issue (uploaded last_kmsg to https://pastebin.com/ie60SFu6).

Some info I forgot last time: I have the new camera and display module.

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Same here. And unfortunately I don’t have an old one any more to put it in for tests in case that might help…
EDIT: I’ve just thought about it. On my second “test phone” the kernel worked fine. And there’s also the new camera installed.

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I guess it would be helpful to provide the kernel log for the phone where the reboots happen.
With USB debugging enabled, when the phone reboots, press Vol-up to immediately boot into recovery and execute

adb shell cat /proc/last_kmsg > last_kmsg-3.4.10-1.txt
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I’d done that in a pm already.

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It might already give a hint to boot the phone with the new module simply removed.

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Yes, but as I’ve one phone which works with new kernel and one which doesn’t, and both have new camera module, I’m already sure the module is not too blame…

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Very nice solution :+1:. I’m having such an all time good & handy mobile Linux on my ebooks SD card. That’s what I am missing when using Android, a FS capable of proper handling >4GB files.

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Thanks to @Ingo we were able to bisect the kernel and find the offending commit.
New version to test: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=4349826312261746343
Chris

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