1482456 - Starting geckoview_example app with '-profile' argument causes app to hang/fail startup

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(GeckoView :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Wood [:rwood]]

Using a Google Pixel 2 and the geckoview_example.apk (Android 4.0 API16+ debug or opt) from today's mozilla inbound.

Starting the geckoview_example app with the '-profile' argument is now failing (this used to work).

The geckoview_example app starts up on the device but then the page just remains blank with the loading indicator at the top stuck. If I start the app with the same command line but remove the '-profile' arg then the app starts up and loads the default mozilla page successfully.

13:19:43     INFO -  adb launch_application: am start -W -n org.mozilla.geckoview_example/org.mozilla.geckoview_example.GeckoViewActivity -a android.intent.action.Main --ez use_multiprocess False --es args '-profile /sdcard/raptor-profile'

Portion of adb logcat with the error:

08-10 13:19:43.651  6162  6178 W GeckoProfile: ZZZ GeckoProfile sees args: -profile /sdcard/raptor-profile
08-10 13:19:43.655  6162  6178 D GeckoSharedPrefs: Current version = 2, prefs version = 2
08-10 13:19:43.655  6162  6178 W GeckoProfile: ZZZ GeckoProfile profilePath: /sdcard/raptor-profile
08-10 13:19:43.655  6162  6178 W GeckoProfile: ZZZ GeckoProfile get, dir: /sdcard/raptor-profile
08-10 13:19:43.659  6162  6178 I Gecko   : [6162, Unnamed thread cc512080]
...
08-10 13:19:43.684  6162  6180 I OpenGLRenderer: Initialized EGL, version 1.4
08-10 13:19:43.684  6162  6180 D OpenGLRenderer: Swap behavior 2
08-10 13:19:43.692  6162  6178 I Gecko   : [6162, Main Thread] ###!!! ASSERTION: Failed to open lock file.: 'Error', file /builds/worker/workspace/build/src/toolkit/profile/nsProfileLock.cpp, line 245

Comment 1

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

(In reply to Robert Wood [:rwood] from comment #0)
> 08-10 13:19:43.692  6162  6178 I Gecko   : [6162, Main Thread] ###!!!
> ASSERTION: Failed to open lock file.: 'Error', file
> /builds/worker/workspace/build/src/toolkit/profile/nsProfileLock.cpp, line
> 245

Is it possible that /sdcard/raptor-profile does not exist, or that it has an existing profile lock file (I'm not sure of the name) in it?

Comment 2

[(inactive) Jim Chen [:jchen] [:darchons]]

Is the "Storage" permission for the app turned on?

Comment 3

[Robert Wood [:rwood]]

(In reply to Geoff Brown [:gbrown] from comment #1)

> Is it possible that /sdcard/raptor-profile does not exist, or that it has an
> existing profile lock file (I'm not sure of the name) in it?

Thanks Geoff, I double checked, it does exist on the sdcard, and I don't see any lock files. It is blown away first by raptor if that folder does already exist, before pushing the profile.

Comment 4

[Robert Wood [:rwood]]

(In reply to Jim Chen [:jchen] [:darchons] from comment #2)
> Is the "Storage" permission for the app turned on?

Ahhhh that was it - I clicked on the 'GeckoView Example' App icon on the phone, choose app info, permissions, and turned on storage. Now the app loads up fine using the profile. Thanks! :)

Question - is there a way to set that storage permission programmatically so I can do that in the automation?

Comment 5

[(inactive) Jim Chen [:jchen] [:darchons]]

Yeah, something like https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/aff5d4ad5d7fb2919d267cbc23b1d87ae3cf0110/testing/mozbase/mozrunner/mozrunner/devices/android_device.py#372-376

Comment 6

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

Another approach we sometimes use in automation is

  adb install -g <apk>

-g grants all runtime permissions.

Comment 7

[Robert Wood [:rwood]]

Very cool! Thanks guys.