Comment 1 for bug 1582325

To reproduce:

== I flashed my cooler using the SP_FLASH tool according to instructions here: https://wiki.canonical.com/UES/CE/Projects/Avila/FlashTool

== Using device GUI, I enabled dev mode, set power > lock when idle > Never, and installed the latest system update which left me with:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ system-image-cli -i
current build number: 3
device name: cooler
channel: ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris-pd.en
last update: 2016-05-16 15:18:01
version version: 3
version ubuntu: 20160408.1
version tag: OTA-10.1
version device: 20160330.0
version custom: 20160330--38-10-vivid

== adb reboot-bootloader, fastboot boot recovery-cooler.img and rm /cache/recovery*

== install customized tarball like this:
$ adb reboot-bootloade
$ fastboot boot recovery-cooler.img
$ ubuntu-device-flash touch \
--channel ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris-pd.en \
--recovery-image recovery-cooler.img \
--device cooler \
--custom-tarball 0-7-13-puritine_custom.tar.xz \
--run-script skip-sig.sh

WHERE:
$ ls -l 0-7-13-puritine_custom.tar.xz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 knitzsche knitzsche 558581464 May 13 16:50 0-7-13-puritine_custom.tar.xz
AND:
$ cat skip-sig.sh
#!/bin/bash
adb shell touch /etc/system-image/skip-gpg-verification
adb shell /sbin/system-image-upgrader /cache/recovery/ubuntu_command

THIS ^ WORKED FINE

== Switched to rc-propposed as follows:

$ adb reboot-bootloader
$ ubuntu-device-flash touch \
--channel ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/bq-aquaris-pd.en \
--recovery-image recovery-cooler.img \
--device cooler \
--bootstrap

4. complete oobe

5. enable dev mode, lock when idle = Never and rm ~/.customized

== install customized tarball again

last_log.1 last_log.3 log
/cache/recovery # ls -a
. last_install last_log last_log.2 last_log.4
.. last_kmsg last_log.1 last_log.3 log

(hmm, I expected to see tarballs here...)
# cd cache/recovery/
# rm /*

$ adb reboot-bootloader
$ fastboot boot recovery-cooler.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [ 0.372s]
booting...
OKAY [ 0.068s]
finished. total time: 0.439s
$ ubuntu-device-flash touch \
> --channel ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/bq-aquaris-pd.en \
> --recovery-image recovery-cooler.img \
> --device cooler \
> --custom-tarball 0-7-13-puritine_custom.tar.xz \
> --run-script skip-sig.sh
2016/05/16 12:43:21 Device is |cooler|
2016/05/16 12:43:21 Flashing version 51 from ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/bq-aquaris-pd.en channel and server https://system-image.ubuntu.com to device cooler
2016/05/16 12:43:22 Start pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/bq-aquaris-pd.en/cooler/version-51.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:43:22 Start pushing /home/knitzsche/gendarmarie/flash/0-7-13-puritine_custom.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:43:22 Start pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-master.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:43:22 Start pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-signing.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:43:24 Done pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/bq-aquaris-pd.en/cooler/version-51.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:43:24 Start pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/device-e94e1b09f402d05326f5ead27efbe0b3668b2f1fcb41d1e32bd99424ac6bad29.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:43:24 Start pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/ubuntu-8a607dbf79296168a021a337b19e0e254731763c20571b0e033f6e61179f4763.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:43:24 Done pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-signing.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:43:24 Done pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-master.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:43:49 Done pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/device-e94e1b09f402d05326f5ead27efbe0b3668b2f1fcb41d1e32bd99424ac6bad29.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:44:21 Done pushing /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/ubuntu-8a607dbf79296168a021a337b19e0e254731763c20571b0e033f6e61179f4763.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:44:58 Done pushing /home/knitzsche/gendarmarie/flash/0-7-13-puritine_custom.tar.xz to device
2016/05/16 12:44:58 Created ubuntu_command: /home/knitzsche/.cache/ubuntuimages/ubuntu_commands616812265
2016/05/16 12:44:58 Preparing to run /home/knitzsche/gendarmarie/flash/skip-sig.sh to finish the flashing process
__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for localtime!
__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for GMT!
__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for posixrules!
Starting image upgrader: Mon May 16 16:46:10 GMT 2016
Loading keyring: archive-master.tar.xz
8192+0 records in
8192+0 records out
33554432 bytes (32.0MB) copied, 0.152311 seconds, 210.1MB/s
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 33550336 bytes
Processing the command file
Formating: system
Creating filesystem with parameters:
    Size: 4194304000
    Block size: 4096
    Blocks per group: 32768
    Inodes per group: 8000
    Inode size: 256
    Journal blocks: 16000
    Label:
    Blocks: 1024000
    Block groups: 32
    Reserved block group size: 255
Created filesystem with 11/256000 inodes and 34123/1024000 blocks
Loading keyring: image-master.tar.xz
Loading keyring: image-signing.tar.xz
__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for localtime!
__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for GMT!
__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for posixrules!
e2fsck 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/system: 11/256000 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 34123/1024000 blocks
Applying update: ubuntu-8a607dbf79296168a021a337b19e0e254731763c20571b0e033f6e61179f4763.tar.xz
Applying update: device-e94e1b09f402d05326f5ead27efbe0b3668b2f1fcb41d1e32bd99424ac6bad29.tar.xz
tar: write error: No space left on device
unxz: short write
cat: write error: Broken pipe

/cache/recovery # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 989.0M 36.0K 988.9M 0% /dev
tmpfs 989.0M 24.0K 988.9M 0% /tmp
/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/cache
                        991.9M 975.9M 4.0K 100% /cache
/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/system
                          3.8G 1.2G 2.5G 33% /cache/system

==> try to reboot the system from the recovery menu.

PROBLEM: NEVER GETS OUT OF BOOTSPLASH

Previously I ran into a similar non-easily-recoverable error when doing essentially the above boot finally with --bootstrap and from bootloader.

In both cases I seem to need to reflash the devices with SP FLASH TOOL.