Waydroid container start error

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Hi i am trying to install waydroid by following the Arch wiki
I got this error and I cant seem to make sense of it

➜  ~ sudo waydroid container start
[16:54:03] ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/waydroid/waydroid.log'
[16:54:03] See also: <https://github.com/waydroid>
Run 'waydroid log' for details. Alternatively you can use '--details-to-stdout' to get more output, e.g. 'waydroid --details-to-stdout init'.
➜  ~  waydroid log
tail: cannot open '/tmp/tools.log' for reading: No such file or directory

Can anyone help me make sense of it and figure it out?

I would also like to mention that I got this error when I did that 1.41 part of the wiki.
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert ‘binder_linux’: Device or resource busy
but my googling efforts took me to a manjaro forum where the reply said it probably means its already installed but I didnt know how to verify it

Thank you for your time in advance :blush:. Can’t wait to play Love & Deepspace on my PC :sweat_smile:

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You didn’t need to do the 1.41 section. That was only if you were using a kernel that doesn’t have the binder module as the previous section mentioned. Just using the linux-zen kernel is enough. Although if I’m reading the wiki correctly it seems like all of the three main arch kernels now provide the binder modules.

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All i see. I’m new to arch/EndeavourOS and its a bit confusing at times haha.

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No worries, we have all been there. I would basically undo what you did and just start over.

Simplified instructions would be

  1. Install linux-zen kernel.
  2. Reboot
  3. Install waydroid
  4. Run waydroid init
  5. Run sudo systemctl enable --now waydroid-container.service
  6. Run waydroid session start
  7. Run waydroid show-full-ui
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there should be a bash script which does this or a setup option in endavoros install

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I doubt it would ever be included as an installation option for the same reasons as all the other stuff people have sought to have included over the years. A bash script wouldn’t be all that useful since their isn’t much to do. This is no different than installing any other package minus the initial setup. I created a few bash scripts for my personal use case of starting waydroid and mounting a drive that it can see, but most of the above commands never need to be run again.

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Each and every user has some preferences that they think they should be included in the
installer. However that is not what EndeavourOS is about: https://endeavouros.com/about-us/

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could kalamri installer do this