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android application failing upon user scrolling - no 'obvious' error

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This is a very low-level exception that indicates a bug in Android itself. Based on the LogCat dump, the bug may be unique to the DROID/Milestone, though I am not certain of that. If you are indeed encountering this bug on a Motorola device, I recommend posting your stack trace on the appropriate MOTODEV message board, as that will be the quickest way to get the issue investigated.

CommonsWare 2010-01-08 01:23:46

this was the suspicion i was getting lately, and i've been trying to run via the emulator instead of my droid. thanks.

2010-01-08 02:28:52

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you should report native crashes like this at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/entry (choose the "developer bug report" template). include exactly what you included here, and if you can, please include your app (or the active ingredient thereof) so we can reproduce the crash to find the problem and verify the fix.

as for the strange stack trace, it's because this is a crash in native code. google developers have the map from those "pc" (program counter) addresses to symbols, so we can work out where in the native code this happened. (Typeface_unref, as it happens, so this seems unlikely to be Droid-specific.)

[the "zombie" referred to is the crashed process. debuggerd is just telling you that it's not leaving it around for debugging --- it's clearing it away on the assumption you're a user and just want to get on with your life.]

this particular bug has already been fixed; the fix should be in the first release after 2.1.

Elliott Hughes 2010-01-12 03:50:29

For those interested...I eventually figured it out. As EHughes pointed out Typeface_unref was the appropriate clue. I was trying to use a custom font and wound up having a typo when I referenced it. Obviously, Android couldn't "find" the incorrectly referenced font, but it decided to crash at some point long after I referenced the non-existent font.

2010-01-14 03:11:33

i've raised a bug for you: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6030as i say there, i'm pretty sure we've already fixed this internally, but it's best to have someone familiar with that code take a look.

Elliott Hughes 2010-01-14 05:00:28

yes, the bug has already been fixed internally.

Elliott Hughes 2010-01-21 16:40:51

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