[SOLVED] issues with setting up waydroid

[sour musk]

trying to set up waydroid but it keeps having issues. at first it was having some issues with binder and on searching, was told to install binder_linux-dkms which didnt work either. then i was told to switch to linux-zen kernel bc it had that binder stuff pre configured. i switched to linux-zen and that problem got resolved but now it still doesnt work. everything goes smoothly but when i start the session with wayland session start, it gives the error OSError: container failed to start. waht should i do?

[iron bough]

Can you post your system information like CPU, GPU, installed waydroid packages and output from systemctl --type=service ?

[sour musk]

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[sour musk]

running that doesnt tell me anything about my CPU or GPU. my CPU is i3 3rd gen and GPU is intel integrated. the insatlled waydroid service is waydroid-container.service loaded active running Waydroid Container

[sour musk]

1. Arch linux
2. installed waydroid
3. i expected it to work ig 💀

[iron bough]

what is the output from lsmod | grep binder ?

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[sour musk]

nothing

[iron bough]

In an attempt to reproduce your problem, I started a new archlinux virtual machine instance downloaded from archlinux.org and used the following steps to install and start waydroid

• paru -S waydroid waydroid-image binder_linux-dkms
• sudo waydroid init.
• waydroid session start.
• run waydroid show-full-ui in another terminal

I have not been able to reproduce this problem and the waydroid has started successfully.

The kernel I use is the linux package from the official core repo.

and lsmod | grep binder outputs

binder_linux    258048 91

So my question is, are you sure that you installed waydroid according to this arch wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Waydroid ?

If you are not affirmative, try to reinstalling it using the steps above

[sour musk]

Ok I'll retry

And then post the update

[iron bough]

If you are updating, please post the full installation process in the form of terminal output.

[sour musk]

Okay

[sour musk]

it worked

[sour musk]

thank you @iron bough
sorry for two pings but i want to give you the cookie

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[sour musk]

[SOLVED] issues with setting up waydroid

also if i want to switch to linux, do i just install linux and uninstall linux-zen?

because i only installed linux-zen for waydroid but it works without it too

[iron bough]

Yes, it should work as long as you have binder_linux-dkms installed. And in fact, the kernel that I used to run the test is the regular linux package.

[sour musk]

i see

thanks a lot for your help btw. i spent a whole day on it and was so frustrated