702365 - Large screenshot can cause OOM on startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 708961

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Patrick Walton (:pcwalton)]

Seen on a Galaxy Tab.

E/dalvikvm-heap( 2369): Out of memory on a 33554448-byte allocation.
I/dalvikvm( 2369): "main" prio=5 tid=1 RUNNABLE
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   | group="main" sCount=0 dsCount=0 obj=0x402805a8 self=0x12690
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   | sysTid=2369 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=-1342909336
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   | schedstat=( 573428000 86600000 448 ) utm=49 stm=8 core=1
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at dalvik.system.VMRuntime.newNonMovableArray(Native Method)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at java.nio.MemoryBlock.allocate(MemoryBlock.java:92)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at java.nio.ReadWriteDirectByteBuffer.<init>(ReadWriteDirectByteBuffer.java:46)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(ByteBuffer.java:67)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at org.mozilla.gecko.gfx.PlaceholderLayerClient.<init>(PlaceholderLayerClient.java:71)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at org.mozilla.gecko.gfx.PlaceholderLayerClient.createInstance(PlaceholderLayerClient.java:83)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.onCreate(GeckoApp.java:1050)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1048)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1715)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1767)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:122)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1005)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:132)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4028)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:844)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:602)
I/dalvikvm( 2369):   at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
I/dalvikvm( 2369): 
D/AndroidRuntime( 2369): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm( 2369): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40279760)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at dalvik.system.VMRuntime.newNonMovableArray(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at java.nio.MemoryBlock.allocate(MemoryBlock.java:92)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at java.nio.ReadWriteDirectByteBuffer.<init>(ReadWriteDirectByteBuffer.java:46)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(ByteBuffer.java:67)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at org.mozilla.gecko.gfx.PlaceholderLayerClient.<init>(PlaceholderLayerClient.java:71)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at org.mozilla.gecko.gfx.PlaceholderLayerClient.createInstance(PlaceholderLayerClient.java:83)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.onCreate(GeckoApp.java:1050)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1048)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1715)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1767)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:122)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1005)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:132)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4028)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:844)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:602)
E/AndroidRuntime( 2369): 	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Comment 1

[Patrick Walton (:pcwalton)]

Attachment: Last screenshot in question

Comment 2

[Patrick Walton (:pcwalton)]

Android is probably scaling the 1024x2048 image to 2048x4096. That would result in the 33MB allocation we see here.

Comment 4

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

It's a known Android bug: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=16941

Comment 5

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I'm also seeing this too on a Galaxy Tab. Is there any information I can provide to help ? Or a way to remove the screenshot so that the app can launch ?

Comment 6

[Patrick Walton (:pcwalton)]

Looks like we need to write our own ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(). Quoting from the Google bug: "you could allocate memory yourself on the native heap and use NewDirectByteBuffer from JNI."

Comment 8

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

I encounter this error (and crash) with the about:Firefox page.

Comment 10

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

(Nightly won't start on my eeeTransformer due to this; it's been that way now for about 5 days.)

Gerv

Comment 11

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Workaround - if you have a rooted device you can delete /data/data/org.mozilla.fennec/cache/lastScreen.png (either with a file explorer app or 'adb shell' from the Android sdk).

Comment 12

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

nthomas: Thanks - I rooted my Transformer (there are easy instructions for Linux on XDA) and once I'd finally tracked down this file, it made it work again. Of course, the problem recurs on a regular basis, so you have to keep doing it :-(

Gerv

Comment 13

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

We landed code yesterday to _stop_ using the last screenshot. You should not see this problem until we turn it back on, which we won't do until we add code to work around the internal Android bug.

Comment 14

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Nick Thomas [:nthomas] from comment #11)
> Workaround - if you have a rooted device you can delete
> /data/data/org.mozilla.fennec/cache/lastScreen.png (either with a file
> explorer app or 'adb shell' from the Android sdk).

or you can click the "clear cache" button in the system settings -> applications -> fennec page

Comment 15

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

this has been fixed a while ago.