Waydroid (1.3.3-0pureos0+librem5ci79377.0353512) container can no longer start after I rebooted my L5 phone. The /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid.log ends with the following: (004769) [12:26:41] % lxc-start -P /var/lib/waydroid/lxc -F -n waydroid -- /init (004769) [12:26:41] New background process: pid=4…

You can try and see whether the kernel from CI at Files · byzantium-config-revert · Sebastian Krzyszkowiak / linux-next · GitLab fixes the problem. Alternatively, you can upgrade to Crimson where this problem doesn’t happen. I don’t have a Byzantium phone around at this moment, but I’m going to hav…

[image] irvinewade: Did anyone escalate this to Purism Support though? Yes, thank you for reminder.

It is possible that the problem is with an old Android image. One of the Android updates broke sound: anything played from inside of the Android was terribly stuttering, so I reverted to previous version and did not update the Android image since then. I’ll try to update everything and will hope tha…

It is possible, but as I said - my phones have very varied versions of Android images and they all work, so it must be a matter of some particular combination of component versions that you happen to have there. (audio works correctly with latest Waydroid images in Crimson, BTW)

I will also add that Waydroid works for me on Crimson after I followed the Waydroid installation instructions . Maybe this is an issue only in Byzantium, which I haven’t tried. I doubt Purism’s devs will spend time to investigate or fix issue in Byzantium with Crimson nearing beta release. If you ar…

Upgrade progress: Updated Waydroid to 1.6.1-0pureos0+librem5ci167173.8ff8f39 . Everything works fine. Updated Android to latest “system” and “vendor” images. It was a jump from Android 11 to Android 13. Now the sound is stuttering and current playback timestamp in a player (NewPipe) advances fast…

It’s a relief to hear others have this same issue following the recent kernel update. For context, I have kept both PureOS and the Android system and vendor image in the container as far updated as possible (without entering betas or pre-releases) which currently is Byzantium and Android 13 (the Lin…

I am still on Byzantium because it is The latest stable release, even though it is old. It is my daily driver, and I depend on it working properly. Well, now it is not working properly, so I may consider upgrading… Regarding the upgrade: the last time I checked the only way to do it was to flash a …

Waydroid is not (was never?) in the Byzantium repository. To upgrade the waydroid package you would need to grab it from Purism’s GitLab: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/debs/waydroid/-/jobs/542948/artifacts/browse/debian/output/ . Alternatively, there are now official Waydroid repositories for Byzant…

[image] Vuntun: Regarding the upgrade: the last time I checked the only way to do it was to flash a new OS image and erasing the current installation. Several people have posted relatively recently that they have successfully upgraded from Byzantium to Crimson using apt. I don’t know the deta…

I just followed the direction of the readme at ‘ Librem5 / debs / waydroid · GitLab ’ which points to ‘ Install Instructions | Waydroid ’ for the installation instructions (following the Ubuntu/Debian and derivatives instructions) which worked for me. Granted this was a year and a half ago when I first…

Waydroid broken after kernel update on L5

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janvlug January 18, 2026, 10:56am 22

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