1090342 - Crash @ java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate application org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApplication

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Still a thing in volume on the Play Store dashboard for Fx34.

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate application org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApplication: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApplication" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/mnt/asec/org.mozilla.firefox_beta-1/pkg.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/mnt/asec/org.mozilla.firefox_beta-1/lib, /vendor/lib, /system/lib]]
at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:504)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4539)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1300(ActivityThread.java:156)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1400)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:153)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5293)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:833)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:600)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApplication" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/mnt/asec/org.mozilla.firefox_beta-1/pkg.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/mnt/asec/org.mozilla.firefox_beta-1/lib, /vendor/lib, /system/lib]]
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:53)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:501)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:461)
at android.app.Instrumentation.newApplication(Instrumentation.java:968)
at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:499)


Other e.g, DexPathList[]:

DexPathList[[],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/vendor/lib, /system/lib, /vendor/lib]]

DexPathList[[zip file "/mnt/asec/org.mozilla.firefox_beta-1/pkg.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/mnt/asec/org.mozilla.firefox_beta-1/lib, /vendor/lib, /system/lib]]

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

One slightly different stack

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate application org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApplication: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApplication
at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:553)

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.