anbox on antiX

[Member pipfranto]

has anyone managed to get this working?

[Member seaken64]

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Can you tell us more about what you have done do far?

Can you explain to us what the software is supposed to do?

Have you investigated any alternatives?

Seaken64

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seaken64 wrote:

Can you explain to us what the software is supposed to do?

If I understand your question is about the actual purpose of installing anbox (Android Box) on antiX, which I am also wondering what the purpose would be unless access to laptop hardware is mapped in such anbox, so android applications have sound, video, access to microphone, etc.
If so then it might actually open some possibilities and antiX could be the best Linux for this thanks to least resource requirements…

Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters

[Member pipfranto]

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so far i have managed to install the required kernel modules (https://github.com/anbox/anbox-modules) and installed the program. i am starting the daemon manually and it seems to work with the following command

sudo anbox container-manager –data-path=/var/lib/anbox

the actual program itself wont run though, when i run

anbox session-manager

it just crashes

X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 155 (NV-GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 4 ()
Resource id in failed request: 0x5000002
Serial number of failed request: 101
Current serial number in output stream: 101

i am using proprietary nvidia drivers so this might be the reason.

anbox enables android to use linux hardware with near native performance, its good for gaming and generally running android tablet apps on a linux system. the alternative would be installing a full android emulator, but this comes with a big performance hit.

anbox uses snap to install and this requires systemd (this is not an option obviously)

the aim is to get full support for android games on antiX with all hardware mapped without having to install systemd.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by pipfranto.

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When I researched this at the start of this year (with intent to install f-droid under anbox), I learned that although anbox may (someday) operate correctly on a system without systemd init, libsystemd0 would need to be present (anbox utilizes sd-bus, a systemd component, to access d-bus)… and that so far no one has written an equivalent initscript for sysvinit nor runit, to replace the systemd service management unit.

search the mxlinux forum for “anbox” to see whether someone has created or discovered a non-systemd solution in recent months.

[Member pipfranto]

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would using elogind/libelogind to provide libsystemd0 work? https://github.com/elogind/elogind
without the sysvinit script the daemon would have to be started manually every time, but antix would still be usable correct?

[Member Xecure]

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elogind is already being used in antiX. If you cannot get it to work properly, I think there is no possibility.
Maybe MX can get it to work, as it has a shared systemd-sysVinit “state”.

antiX Live system enthusiast.
General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

[Member pipfranto]

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i am running on old hardware so i don’t know if mx is an option, does the shared sysvinit systemd state include sd-dbus? the main issue that prevents anbox from running is a dbus error due to the systemd dbus (sd-bus) being needed. I tried using guix to install anbox using the pkill9 guix channel but ran out of space on my system partition. Is there any way to just extract the sd-dbus part out of systemd?

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Today I checked and it seems to me that anbox should be do-able on antiX 19, without any systemd stuffs.

I have never previously used it, and am presuming you have, and that you know to separately download an android .img and place the file in the expected location. After installing (sudo apt install anbox), within /lib/systemd/system/anbox-container-manager.service we find:

ConditionPathExists=/var/lib/anbox/android.img
ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe ashmem_linux
ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe binder_linux
ExecStartPre=/usr/share/anbox/anbox-bridge.sh start
ExecStart=/usr/bin/anbox container-manager –daemon –privileged –data-path=/var/lib/anbox

and within /usr/lib/systemd/user/anbox-session-manager.service

ExecStart=/usr/bin/anbox session-manager

In the absence of systemd, you could manually run each of the commands or place them within a shell script
(adding an end of line ampersand character, to background anbox-bridge.sh) and launch the script as needed.

Apparently, launching the anbox session-manager requires superuser privileges.
As a sticking point (perhaps), anbox session-manager depends on seeing $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 in the environment… but, for security reasons the default sudoers policy in antiX is configured to drop the user’s env variables.

As user “demo” (userid 1000), from a terminal emulator command prompt I ran:
$ /sbin/modprobe ashmem_linux
$ /sbin/modprobe binder_linux
$ /usr/share/anbox/anbox-bridge.sh start
$ su -m
$ env | grep XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

^—> From this point, you should be all set to launch the anbox session and/or container manager.
My blind testing ended here.
For further info, refer to /usr/share/doc/anbox/README.Debian

ps
Even though somewhere in the docs we read “blablah is a systemd service”, I searched the sourcecode and found that’s not the case. When manually launched, only “collect-info.sh” (an ancillary utility script, for debugging) expects find journalctl available. Nothing else within the anbox executables cares about systemd or its components.

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I run MX on some pretty old machines. I have it on a Pentium-III and a few P4’s. How old is your equipment? I’d give MX a try.

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[Member pipfranto]

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i tried the commands manually and got 3 errors:

ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe ashmem_linux
bash: ashmem_linux: command not found

ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe binder_linux
bash: binder_linux: command not found

ExecStart=/usr/bin/anbox container-manager –daemon –privileged –data-path=/var/lib/anbox
bash: container-manager: command not found
[1]+ Done /usr/share/anbox/anbox-bridge.sh start

my modules are loaded and the android.img is in /var/lib/anbox/android.img

[Member pipfranto]

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i ran the script:

GNU nano 5.3 anbox-script.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash

/sbin/modprobe ashmem_linux
/sbin/modprobe binder_linux
/usr/share/anbox/anbox-bridge.sh start
su -m
env | grep XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
sudo anbox container-manager –data-path=/var/lib/anbox –daemon
/usr/bin/anbox session-manager

then in a new terminal:
$ anbox launch –package=org.anbox.appmgr –component=org.anbox.appmgr.AppViewActivity
[ 2020-10-08 07:21:15] [daemon.cpp:61@Run] Failed to connect to DBus

then i put:
$ export $(dbus-launch)
$ anbox launch –package=org.anbox.appmgr –component=org.anbox.appmgr.AppViewActivity

then anbox starts booting up with an android logo and it says “Starting …” but it crashes and i get:

[ 2020-10-08 07:24:15] [launch.cpp:214@operator()] Session manager failed to become ready

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by pipfranto.

[Anonymous]

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searching, I found similar reports, but no reported solution so far

https://www.bountysource.com/teams/anbox/issues

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anbox not working , session manager failed to become ready #885

Anbox does not launch, says “Session manager failed to become ready” #754

Anbox splash screen disappears and console reports “Session manager failed to become ready” #1217

[Member pipfranto]

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After a lot of experimentation, it turns out my hardware is just too old for anbox – it requires SSE 4.2.

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