1766278 - java.lang.RuntimeException: GeckoRuntime is shutting down

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1771978

(GeckoView :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[[:skhan]]

java.lang.RuntimeException: GeckoRuntime is shutting down
at mozilla.components.browser.engine.gecko.GeckoEngine$$ExternalSyntheticLambda19.onShutdown
at org.mozilla.geckoview.GeckoRuntime$1.handleMessage(GeckoRuntime.java:3)
at org.mozilla.gecko.EventDispatcher$3.run(EventDispatcher.java:2)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:938)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8633)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:567)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1133)

On shutdown: The runtime is shutting down (possibly because of an unrecoverable error state). We crash the app here for two reasons:
- We want to know about those unsolicited shutdowns and fix those issues.
- We can't recover easily from this situation. Just continuing will leave us with an engine that
doesn't do anything anymore.

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Sarah, do you have more detailed steps to reproduce this exception? Do you need to load a specific web page?

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Setting severity S3 to appease the Relman bot, but leaving priority unset so this bug stays in GV's triage list.

Comment 4

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Sarah says she hasn't seen this crash herself; we have crash reports in Sentry, for example:

https://sentry.io/organizations/mozilla/issues/3231240703

Sentry query:

https://sentry.io/organizations/mozilla/issues/?project=6295546&query=is%3Aunresolved+level%3Afatal+GeckoRuntime+is+shutting+down&statsPeriod=14d

Setting priority to P5 because, AFAIK, this crash only affects GVE, only happens during shutdown, and we only have a few dozen Sentry reports over the last month.

Comment 5

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

This bug is a duplicate of bug 1771978. I resolved that bug as WORKSFORME months ago, but I'll reopen it because we're still receiving crash reports.