AndLinux

Troubleshooting

Startup delays

• Interaction with Anti-Virus software - AV software may interact with the startup of AndLinux, typically by maintaining a lock on the 4GB disk image file base.drv while it is scanned.
  • Solution: To prevent this, one can exclude the andlinux directory from the AV on-access scanner. In McAfee, this is done by opening the VirusScan console → double-ckick On-Access Scanner → then select All Processes → open the pane Detection and click the button Exclusions... → click Add... to add a new exclusion → Browse to AndLinux directory and select Also exclude subfolders.
• Stalling when mounting / - You experience a huge delay during the startup process, and when launching the FLTK console, you observe that andlinux is stalling on the message below.

ReiserFS: cobd0: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on cobd0
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Modules already installed.
Closing /
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds

• Solution: The fix proposed in this post is to actually change the extension of the disk image file from .drv to something like .drive (ie. change ./Drives/base.drv to ./Drives/base.drive and ./Drives/swap.drv to ./Drives/swap.drive) and adapt the configuration files ./settings.txt accordingly.

Network issues

• TAP Interfaces - Reference [1], [2].
• Message Network cable unplugged for TAP interface even when AndLinux started.
  • Go to Network Connections window. Check that the connection for device named TAP-Win32 Adapter V8 (coLinux) is called TAP-Colinux. If not (for instance it is called Local Area Connection or Local Area Connection 2), then rename it!
  • Other solution (not tried) from [3]:
    • Control-Panel → Network Connections → right click on the TAP-Win32 connection → Properties → Configure → Advanced → Media Status = Always connected.