Waydroid error: not using Wayland. But I am!

[quixote]

I'm stuck. I hope someone here can come up with a workaround! I'm using bookworm and Phosh, all up to date, on a Braveheart 1.1 phone. I installed by following the step-by-step on the Waydroid Site (https://waydro.id/ at bottom of page). There are no errors until I get to the second steps under "Running Waydroid."

Code:

sudo container waydroid start

errors:

Code:

[16:06:43] NOTE: The failed command's output is above the ^^^ line in the log file: /var/lib/waydroid/waydroid.log
[16:06:43] ERROR: Command failed: % mount /var/lib/waydroid/images/system.img /var/lib/waydroid/rootfs
[16:06:43] See also: <https://github.com/waydroid>
Run 'waydroid log' for details.

and

Code:

waydroid session start

tells me the XDG session is not Wayland. But both

Code:

$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE

and

Code:

$ loginctl show-session 1 -p Type

returns "wayland" (I did check to make sure I had the right session)

Anyone have any idea what's going on? Or, even better, how to make it go away?

(also posted this just now to Waydroid issues tab on github)