729780 - Nightly installer shows blank screen for about 15 seconds if Nightly is still running in the background

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Attachment: Nightly_installer_logcat.txt

I have Nightly 13.0a1 (2012-02-21) installed on my Galaxy Nexus.

STR:
1. Nightly alerts me that an update is available.
2. I download the update and run the installer.

AR:
The installer shows a blank screen for about 15 seconds before "Replace application?" dialog.

ER:
If I manually kill the Nightly process first, the installer does not hang.


I believe the problem is related to the Nightly process running in the background. adb logcat shows no activity during the installer hang until the following message:

W/ActivityManager(  197): Launch timeout has expired, giving up wake lock!
W/ActivityManager(  197): Activity idle timeout for ActivityRecord{41a660e0 org.mozilla.fennec/.Restarter}

* See the attached logcat log for more info. I periodically pressed the ENTER key while recording the log, so the blank lines in the log are during the installer hang.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Can you reproduce this all the time?

Comment 2

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

> *Can you reproduce this all the time?*

If Nightly is running/paused in the background, yes.

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I can reproduce this on the HTC Desire HD, after upgrading from the 2012-03-01 Nightly to the 2012-03-04 Nightly build.

I couldn't reproduce this in a build from 2012-01-01, so this seems to be a regression.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This seems to have regressed between 2012-01-26 and 2012-01-27:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/402b394b6623
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c07595bee6cf
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?startdate=2012-01-25+23%3A40%3A00&enddate=2012-01-26+18%3A00%3A00

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

bug 721320?

Comment 10

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

If we do end up shipping any builds as web downloads that update over AUS, QA has flagged this bug as a specific concern. Nominating for blocking-fennec1.0.

Comment 11

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

minusing this for Fennec-1.0 important if we ship smaller locales as a manual download

Comment 12

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

qawanted, is this still reproducible? I don't think I've seen this problem recently.

Comment 13

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I'm definitely still seeing this while I updated from the 2012-05-31 build to the 2012-06-01 build on the Samsung Galaxy SII.

Comment 14

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

FWIW I can still reproduce this problem on recent Nightly builds on a Samsung Galaxy S2.

Comment 15

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

Sriram saw the cause of this while looking into restarting Fennec after a locale change, IIRC. The Restarter is waiting for the Fennec process to die before it can start a new one. The new process sees the update and starts the installation.

Comment 16

[Sriram Ramasubramanian [:sriram]]

We should change it to a Dialog (style Activity) instead of occupying full screen, with a message saying "Restarting.. " (and a spinning throbber). This is more meaning than an empty activity without any message.