[Android] Crash On Startup Using New Arch + Hermes

[Kesmek]

Description

When creating a fresh react native project from the template using npx react-native init test --template react-native-template-typescript, and changing the appropriate flags in android/app/build.gradle to enable hermes and in android/gradle.properties to enable the new arch, the app crashes on startup. It builds fine but on startup it crashes with these errors from adb:

07-21 12:42:57.766 21292 21292 E SoLoader: couldn't find DSO to load: libjscexecutor.so
07-21 12:42:57.766 21292 21292 E SoLoader:      SoSource 0: com.facebook.soloader.ApkSoSource[root = /data/data/com.fabrictest/lib-main flags = 1]
07-21 12:42:57.766 21292 21292 E SoLoader:      SoSource 1: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /data/app/~~ul_lgralUfnyZ42Uxxpc4A==/com.fabrictest-Jq3mxwJAF96KnxdAWSAlxA==/lib/arm64 flags = 0]
07-21 12:42:57.766 21292 21292 E SoLoader:      SoSource 2: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /system/lib64 flags = 2]
07-21 12:42:57.766 21292 21292 E SoLoader:      SoSource 3: com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource[root = /vendor/lib64 flags = 2]
07-21 12:42:57.766 21292 21292 E SoLoader:      Native lib dir: /data/app/~~ul_lgralUfnyZ42Uxxpc4A==/com.fabrictest-Jq3mxwJAF96KnxdAWSAlxA==/lib/arm64
07-21 12:42:57.766 21292 21292 E SoLoader:  result: 0
07-21 12:42:57.920 21292 21292 E unknown:ReactRootView: Unable to update root layout specs for ReactRootView: no rootViewTag set yet
07-21 12:42:58.289  2744 21351 E CastSocket: [TcpProberDeviceController-1] Failed to shutdown the output stream socket: tpt@a70e7cc.
07-21 12:42:58.289  2744 21351 E CastSocket: java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException
07-21 12:42:58.289  2744 21351 E CastSocket:    at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.shutdownOutput(SocketChannelImpl.java:842)
07-21 12:42:58.289  2744 21351 E CastSocket:    at sun.nio.ch.SocketAdaptor.shutdownOutput(SocketAdaptor.java:424)
07-21 12:42:58.289  2744 21351 E CastSocket:    at tor.l(:com.google.android.gms@222615044@22.26.15 (190400-461192076):4)
07-21 12:42:58.289  2744 21351 E CastSocket:    at tox.c(:com.google.android.gms@222615044@22.26.15 (190400-461192076):46)
07-21 12:42:58.289  2744 21351 E CastSocket:    at tow.run(:com.google.android.gms@222615044@22.26.15 (190400-461192076):2)
07-21 12:42:58.289  2744 21351 E CastSocket:    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:920)
07-21 12:42:58.290  2744 21199 E TcpProberDeviceController: [TcpProberDeviceController-1] onSocketConnectionFailed. Error: 2
07-21 12:42:59.438  2174  2950 E bt_btm  : system/bt/main/bte_logmsg.cc:191 LogMsg: BTM_BleObserve Observe Already Active
07-21 12:43:00.454 21292 21353 I ReactNativeJS: Running "fabricTest" with {"fabric":true,"initialProps":{"concurrentRoot":true},"rootTag":1}
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime: Error reporting crash
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 320734176 byte allocation with 25165824 free bytes and 251MB until OOM, target footprint 30041136, growth limit 268435456
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3257)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.ensureCapacityInternal(AbstractStringBuilder.java:124)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:448)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:137)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.Throwable.toString(Throwable.java:493)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2924)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.io.PrintWriter.println(PrintWriter.java:754)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.Throwable$WrappedPrintWriter.println(Throwable.java:778)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(Throwable.java:667)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(Throwable.java:735)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ApplicationErrorReport$CrashInfo.<init>(ApplicationErrorReport.java:354)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at android.app.ApplicationErrorReport$ParcelableCrashInfo.<init>(ApplicationErrorReport.java:484)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$KillApplicationHandler.uncaughtException(RuntimeInit.java:157)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.ThreadGroup.uncaughtException(ThreadGroup.java:1073)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.ThreadGroup.uncaughtException(ThreadGroup.java:1068)
07-21 12:43:00.720 21292 21292 E AndroidRuntime:        at java.lang.Thread.dispatchUncaughtException(Thread.java:2200)

Version

0.69.2

Output of npx react-native info

System:
    OS: Linux 5.18 undefined
    CPU: (16) x64 AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
    Memory: 17.64 GB / 31.27 GB
    Shell: 5.1.16 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 18.6.0 - /usr/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.19 - /usr/bin/yarn
    npm: 8.14.0 - /usr/bin/npm
    Watchman: Not Found
  SDKs:
    Android SDK: Not Found
  IDEs:
    Android Studio: AI-212.5712.43.2112.8609683
  Languages:
    Java: 18.0.2 - /usr/bin/javac
  npmPackages:
    @react-native-community/cli: Not Found
    react: 18.0.0 => 18.0.0 
    react-native: 0.69.2 => 0.69.2 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    *react-native*: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

1. Init a new project with npx react-native init test --template react-native-template-typescript.
2. Set enableHermes: true, in android/app/build.gradle.
3. Set newArchEnabled=true in android/gradle.properties.
4. Run yarn install; yarn android.
5. App will crash on startup.

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

Follow the reproduction steps to initialize a fresh project that will crash as mentioned above.

[kelset]

👋 @Kesmek - I just tried to follow your repro steps but it doesn't crash for me:

(I'm on macos)

That said, the issue here is probably your version of Java: per your info output, it looks like you have Java 18 installed; but we currently recommend folks use Java 11 (see https://reactnative.dev/docs/next/environment-setup).

We already have an issue about support for Java 18: #34103 and it has been addressed via these PRs:

• Bump AGP from 7.2.0 to 7.2.1 #34166
• Bump Android Gradle Plugin to 7.2.0 #33817

So I'm going to close this, but let me know if there's something else going wrong here :)

[Kesmek]

@ahmadzraiq I scanned through the error log you posted and it seems different than mine, which was a duplicate anyway. I suggest you create a new issue and follow the guidelines so that the react native team can help you more easily.