Container broke and app is blank, how to reset settings?

[Matiasgroen]

Container broke and app is blank, how to reset settings?

[Matiasgroen]

I missed /var/lib/lxc/. Cleaning that did the trick and my new Alpine container works now. Thank you!

[Kabouik]

Hey, it'd be nice to have Alpine among the compatible containers. Thanks for trying!

I think the issue is Alpine is not currently supported by any of the automation scripts provided with harbour-containers, so something went south at some point. I'm not sure why it broke completely though, it should just have failed, but I have no Sailfish device at hand to replicate (mine is currently running Droidian). I would say the daemon needs to be restarted. Could you try the following?

ps aux | grep daemon.py
kill -0 <the PID you'll find in the list>

Also, what LXC files did you delete? As far as I remember, the container is created in /home/.lxc/containername, but there are also configuration files in /var/lib/lxc/ which you may want to clean too. Application files (like daemon.py) should be in /usr/share/harbour-containers, but can be left intact. If you want to restart clean, I believe you should try deleting the content relative to your Alpine attempt from the two former folders, and then try restarting the daemon (or reboot).

Then if you want to try setting up an automated desktop installation script for another distribution, since package names and commands are going to differ from Debian's and Arch's (the only two supported distribution at the moment), I suggest you first try running commands equivalent to those in debian.sh and arch.sh here manually to see what works and what doesn't, before keeping only the relevant parts in a new alpine.sh so that others can re-use your findings.