Hi there.

As a test, I've installed Plasma Mobile on my old Nexus 5 first.
I really liked what I saw, so I installed it on my Nexus 5X afterwards.
Unlike Nexus 5, Plasma Mobile does not boot on my Nexus 5X at all, it's stuck on the "Google" logo forever now.

I've followed the steps here in both cases:
https://plasma-mobile.org/nexus-5/

What should I do now?

~Yami

(Also, sorry for any mistakes, I'm Japanese.)

I have the same problem!

First installation. Unlocking was fine. Following last lines on the console:

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+ adb shell cat /cache/recovery/command
--update_package=/sdcard/update.zip   
+ adb shell ls /sdcard                 
TWRP        update.zip                 
+ adb reboot recovery                 
+ sleep 2                             
+ adb wait-for-device                 


I have talked to *bshah*

silvio: Have you some debugging tips to get a running plasma on Nexus 5X?
bshah: anyway, can you adb shell into device when google logo is there?
silvio: no, not possible
bshah: okay, I suggest to flash the newest AOSP 6.0.1 image first and then try flashing.. I believe that something in flash process went wrong
silvio: okay I will try this.
bshah: I've no way of finding what without having logs of first failed flash sadly

I have managed to bring plasma onto the nexus5x.

1. start flash-plasma-phone
2. CTRL+C if the position reached where the flash process is in a "wait loop"
3. sudo adb reboot bootloader
4. start sideload on nexus 5x
5. sudo adb sideload cache/cache/bullhead-20170209-173909.zip
6. execute all lines in the plasmafy function of flash-plasma-phone. replace "$CACHEDIR" with cache and $1 with bullhead

silviof wrote:I have managed to bring plasma onto the nexus5x.

1. start flash-plasma-phone
2. CTRL+C if the position reached where the flash process is in a "wait loop"
3. sudo adb reboot bootloader
4. start sideload on nexus 5x
5. sudo adb sideload cache/cache/bullhead-20170209-173909.zip
6. execute all lines in the plasmafy function of flash-plasma-phone. replace "$CACHEDIR" with cache and $1 with bullhead

Hey, I have the same problem as OP. I managed steps 1-5 successfully, but at step 6 I started encountering problems.

The first non-echo line under plasmafy is "adb push $CACHEDIR/lxc-android.tar.gz /data/". So I ran that with sudo and replacing $CACHEDIR with cache and got "failed to copy 'cache/lxc-android.tar.gz' to '/data/lxc-android.tar.gz': Permission denied" as an error message. I tried it again from root, got the same message, and figured out that the permissions were being denied from the phone's filesystem, not the PC's. So I went into adb shell, ran an ls -l, and saw that everything is owned by root and that the default user doesn't have write permissions in anything but /tmp. Trying su and sudo in an attempt to change the permissions on /data told me that there is no such file as su or sudo within /system/bin/sh.

Was I supposed to root the stock android image on the 5x before installing? The instructions page only said to unlock the bootloader, and I figured there was no point to rooting the stock image since I bought the phone just for plasma and intended to replace the stock image with it as soon as possible. Is there anything I can do to either get into root somehow or push the files into the appropriate directories without it?

The first non-echo line under plasmafy is "adb push $CACHEDIR/lxc-android.tar.gz /data/". So I ran that with sudo and replacing $CACHEDIR with cache and got "failed to copy 'cache/lxc-android.tar.gz' to '/data/lxc-android.tar.gz': Permission denied" as an error message. I tried it again from root, got the same message, and figured out that the permissions were being denied from the phone's filesystem, not the PC's. So I went into adb shell, ran an ls -l, and saw that everything is owned by root and that the default user doesn't have write permissions in anything but /tmp. Trying su and sudo in an attempt to change the permissions on /data told me that there is no such file as su or sudo within /system/bin/sh.

Hmm, I think I have run it as a root adb. Try "adb root" before the copy command.

silviof wrote:

Hmm, I think I have run it as a root adb. Try "adb root" before the copy command.

Well that did make the push commands complete successfully, but now that it's done it's still not booting into plasma and adb isn't recognizing the device at all.

I guess there are two potential points of failure here:
1. I did hit "mount /system" before using the push commands simply because they wouldn't work if I didn't. I'm not at all experienced in android debugging and I don't know if that was bad now that something has gone wrong.
2. During the sideload, I got an error message that read "error: closed". I didn't reckon it was an actual error at the time, but again I'm not particularly experienced in android debugging.

Okay disregard that it turns out I just forgot to enter "Apply update from ADB", and adb is recognizing the device again. Today's attempt had both the sideload and the pushes complete successfully. The only problem is that after successfully completing the instructions and doublechecking to make sure the files were in the phone's filesystem, I rebooted the device hoping to see it load into Plasma. It didn't.

Poking around in adb shell I can see that rebooting seems to have wiped away everything I did, and none of I files I pushed over earlier are still there. Is there some step I missed that would have made the files persistent?

+1 I am at the same stage. There is a Google logo and the actual plasma desktop is not loaded. I tried the plasmafy commands and realized that gunzip is missing from the install so had to manually gunzip the files and then do an adp push. All plasmafy commands are executed successfully however during bootup of the phone its just waiting on Google screen.

Where should I look to troubleshoot what happens at this screen and what is the phone waiting on? Following are running processes on the phone.

root@bullhead:/ # ps
USER PID PPID VSIZE RSS WCHAN PC NAME
root 1 0 4524 1212 SyS_epoll_ 00004ab054 S /init
root 2 0 0 0 kthreadd 0000000000 S kthreadd
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root 5 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/0:0H
root 6 2 0 0 msm_mpm_wo 0000000000 D kworker/u12:0
root 7 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S migration/0
root 8 2 0 0 rcu_gp_kth 0000000000 S rcu_preempt
root 9 2 0 0 rcu_gp_kth 0000000000 S rcu_bh
root 10 2 0 0 rcu_gp_kth 0000000000 S rcu_sched
root 11 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S migration/1
root 12 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S ksoftirqd/1
root 13 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/1:0
root 14 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/1:0H
root 15 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S migration/2
root 16 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S ksoftirqd/2
root 17 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/2:0
root 18 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/2:0H
root 19 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S migration/3
root 20 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S ksoftirqd/3
root 21 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/3:0
root 22 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/3:0H
root 23 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S migration/4
root 24 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S ksoftirqd/4
root 25 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/4:0
root 26 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/4:0H
root 27 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S migration/5
root 28 2 0 0 smpboot_th 0000000000 S ksoftirqd/5
root 29 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/5:0
root 30 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/5:0H
root 31 2 0 0 rescuer_th 0000000000 S khelper
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root 33 2 0 0 rescuer_th 0000000000 S perf
root 34 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/1:1
root 35 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/0:1
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root 40 2 0 0 worker_thr 0000000000 S kworker/0:1H
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root 51 2 0 0 rescuer_th 0000000000 S mpm
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root 67 2 0 0 rescuer_th 0000000000 S iparepwq13
root 68 2 0 0 rescuer_th 0000000000 S ipa_power_mgmt
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root@bullhead:/ #

Just FYi. I am able to execute lxc-stop -n system and lxc-start -n system -F, login as phablet (it does not prompt for a password).

In /data/lxc/containers/system/system.log I observe following -
lxc-start 19700101003048.726 ERROR lxc_utils - utils.c:safe_mount:1692 - No such file or directory - Failed to mount /vendor onto /data/lxc/lxc/lib/lxc/rootfs/vendor/
lxc-start 19700101003347.386 ERROR lxc_utils - utils.c:safe_mount:1692 - No such file or directory - Failed to mount /vendor onto /data/lxc/lxc/lib/lxc/rootfs/vendor/
lxc-start 19700101003645.724 ERROR lxc_utils - utils.c:safe_mount:1692 - No such file or directory - Failed to mount /vendor onto /data/lxc/lxc/lib/lxc/rootfs/vendor/
lxc-start 19700101003746.599 ERROR lxc_utils - utils.c:safe_mount:1692 - No such file or directory - Failed to mount /vendor onto /data/lxc/lxc/lib/lxc/rootfs/vendor/
lxc-start 19700101004042.604 ERROR lxc_utils - utils.c:safe_mount:1692 - No such file or directory - Failed to mount /vendor onto /data/lxc/lxc/lib/lxc/rootfs/vendor/

Joining in. I manage to run the installation script just fine. There is a part where it stays stuck at the Google logo for a minute or 2, but then it completes OK. The problem is after the script finishes. It will reboot the device, which then ends up being stuck at the Google logo forever. However, adb is detecting the device. Listing the content of /system and /data shows that everything seemed to have worked as far as the script is concerned.

Something I noticed with the installation script:

adb push `readlink -f $CACHEDIR/pm-rootfs.tar.gz` /data/pm-rootfs.tar.gz

readlink -f is probably not a good idea if someone uses spaces somewhere along the path, e.g. /Mydir/Plasma Phone/pm-flashtool/cache

Most people probably won't, but I was in this situation. So for future reference make sure your pm-flashtool folder isn't in a directory with spaces somewhere along the path or just delete the `readlink -f ` part.

I might sound like a newbie here but from what I understand, there is a core OS inside which there is a system container and there is another android container within the system container. I observe the following error while andorid container is trying to start.

root@ubuntu-phablet:/var/log/lxc# ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8671 Jan 1 01:19 android.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3654 Jan 1 01:18 lxc-monitord.log
root@ubuntu-phablet:/var/log/lxc# cat android.log
lxc-start 19700101003049.183 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101003049.184 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101003049.184 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101003049.184 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101003049.184 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101003347.568 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101003347.568 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101003347.568 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101003347.568 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101003347.568 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101003645.895 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101003645.895 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101003645.895 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101003645.895 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101003645.895 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101003746.778 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101003746.778 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101003746.778 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101003746.778 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101003746.778 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101004042.921 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101004042.922 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101004042.922 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101004042.922 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101004042.922 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101005231.988 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101005231.989 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101005231.989 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101005231.990 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101005231.990 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101005555.814 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101005555.814 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101005555.814 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101005555.814 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101005555.814 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101010550.427 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101010550.427 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101010550.427 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101010550.427 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101010550.427 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101010758.886 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101010758.887 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101010758.887 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101010758.887 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101010758.887 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101011413.646 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101011413.646 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101011413.646 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101011413.646 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101011413.646 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101011551.874 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101011551.875 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101011551.875 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101011551.875 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101011551.875 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101011724.719 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101011724.720 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101011724.720 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101011724.720 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101011724.720 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start 19700101011923.177 ERROR lxc_conf - conf.c:run_buffer:347 - Script exited with status 1
lxc-start 19700101011923.177 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:lxc_init:450 - Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "android".
lxc-start 19700101011923.177 ERROR lxc_start - start.c:__lxc_start:1294 - Failed to initialize container "android".
lxc-start 19700101011923.177 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:360 - The container failed to start.
lxc-start 19700101011923.177 ERROR lxc_start_ui - tools/lxc_start.c:main:364 - Additional information can be obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
root@ubuntu-phablet:/var/log/lxc#

gibru wrote:Joining in. I manage to run the installation script just fine. There is a part where it stays stuck at the Google logo for a minute or 2, but then it completes OK. The problem is after the script finishes. It will reboot the device, which then ends up being stuck at the Google logo forever. However, adb is detecting the device. Listing the content of /system and /data shows that everything seemed to have worked as far as the script is concerned.

Something I noticed with the installation script:

adb push `readlink -f $CACHEDIR/pm-rootfs.tar.gz` /data/pm-rootfs.tar.gz

readlink -f is probably not a good idea if someone uses spaces somewhere along the path, e.g. /Mydir/Plasma Phone/pm-flashtool/cache

Most people probably won't, but I was in this situation. So for future reference make sure your pm-flashtool folder isn't in a directory with spaces somewhere along the path or just delete the `readlink -f ` part.

Are you using pm-flash -p neon or arch?

Tried both since I wasn't sure whether this is the flag for the distro. Just noticed the last time I left it out. I'm on Arch so I guess I can run it once more with the appropriate option.

Thanks Gibru. Can you confirm that the sha256 sums for the rom's match.

[root@amishW530 cache]# sha256sum *
7f02ba89d37e32c1a6d51bb58d910b98aa31a7872cba64d10c7ef8ea6d578952 55-bullhead.rules
105bec717d17e6c4612efb8f23283d6f942ad4dbaafcbcc36a5c1aea98e9a508 bullhead-20170209-173909.zip
0aae373de15b57b373e2d7248c27e75f8ea6e5810600c30466ae511852088067 bullhead_recovery.img
5d5ff8bb39b1f9bad25ed6ef05007323e544daa4ade310676f0c578da89b7e25 bullhead_stamp
481f04d822ba4597c52099629173efe154085ed52fb0d90916981eefd9885c1b command
c6f4305e2af9496a6801ff291b74f54bc79e4cc48a76f1288e2290511791aebd lxc-android.tar.gz
45bc9f003c531deb8c48afcb315037321dcf0881ed8b5c238a48ccaa953dbd85 lxc-system-config
469fda67ba8148bfa29832421342842e223447e7b17feeda858d5b77d552790e pm-rootfs-20170210-152001.tar.gz
469fda67ba8148bfa29832421342842e223447e7b17feeda858d5b77d552790e pm-rootfs.tar.gz
9559be843775321b9eebf58db20b7ee103923fe45d03a416e791b1dcf20d6c7f rootfs_stamp
[root@amishW530 cache]#