NewPipe crashing in background

[Aareon Sullivan]

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Affected version

0.25.2

Steps to reproduce the bug

Closed application
Application will open itself and report a crash

Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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Screenshots/Screen recordings

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Logs

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-
• App Language: en_US
• Service: none
• Version: 0.25.2
• OS: Linux Android 11 - 30

Crash log

android.app.RemoteServiceException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{82f2c99 u0 org.polymorphicshade.newpipe/org.schabi.newpipe.player.PlayerService}
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2083)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7753)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:612)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:997)

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Affected Android/Custom ROM version

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Affected device model

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Additional information

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[madcrow]

Same experience with slightly different crash log over here:

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: ACRA report
• Content Country: US
• Content Language: en-US
• App Language: en_US
• Service: none
• Version: 0.25.2
• OS: Linux samsung/dm3qxeea/dm3q:13/TP1A.220624.014/S918BXXU3AWGJ:user/release-keys 13 - 33

Crash log

android.app.RemoteServiceException$ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{f7fbf06 u0 org.polymorphicshade.newpipe/org.schabi.newpipe.player.PlayerService}
	at android.app.ActivityThread.generateForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException(ActivityThread.java:2245)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:2216)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mthrowRemoteServiceException(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2508)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8762)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:604)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1067)
Caused by: android.app.StackTrace: Last startServiceCommon() call for this service was made here
	at android.app.ContextImpl.startServiceCommon(ContextImpl.java:1988)
	at android.app.ContextImpl.startForegroundService(ContextImpl.java:1933)
	at android.content.ContextWrapper.startForegroundService(ContextWrapper.java:839)
	at android.content.ContextWrapper.startForegroundService(ContextWrapper.java:839)
	at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat$Api26Impl$$ExternalSyntheticApiModelOutline1.m(R8$$SyntheticClass:0)
	at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat$Api26Impl.startForegroundService(ContextCompat.java:1091)
	at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat.startForegroundService(ContextCompat.java:749)
	at androidx.media.session.MediaButtonReceiver.onReceive(MediaButtonReceiver.java:115)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleReceiver(ActivityThread.java:4894)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.-$$Nest$mhandleReceiver(Unknown Source:0)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2420)
	... 7 more

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