Proxy service gets deleted on every reboot (Paper Pro)

[jdk-21]

On the Paper Pro /etc seems to be mounted as an overlay filesystem, which means that the proxy service gets removed on every reboot and I don't know how to bypass this limitation. My first guess would be to use cron but that doesn't seems to be installed.

# mount | grep /etc
overlay on /etc type overlay (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/etc,upperdir=/var/volatile/etc,workdir=/var/volatile/.etc-work)
/dev/mapper/home-encrypted-disk on /etc/dropbear type ext4 (rw,relatime)
overlay on /mnt/lowerdir type overlay (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/etc,upperdir=/var/volatile/etc,workdir=/var/volatile/.etc-work)

https://github.com/ddvk/rmfakecloud/issues/322

[Eeems]

Have you tried unmounting the overlay and then making modifications?

[jdk-21]

Is unmounting /etc considered save? I don't want to brick the device.

[Eeems]

You are unmounting an overlay that resets all changes on boot so that you can modify the files it's masking.

You do risk making changes to it after that could cause problems. If you do end up causing problems, you could always go through recovery to get your device back to a working state.

[jdk-21]

I tried it with unmounting and it worked. This should be added to the docs. And that Paper Pro uses arm64.

[Eeems]

You can open a PR to add it.

Better yet, the install script should be updated to automatically do this.

[2Belette]

Got the same iasue. @jdk-21 what command did you use ? I imagine you are doing it just before starting the install script right ?