Native crash in /system/lib/libart.so

Question

I have an app on the Play Store, it has an IntentService that does some work when the app starts, and it's causing native crashes on Android 5.0. This service just scans the assets folder for app updating purposes.

Specifically, this crash seems to happen on Samsung S5 after the ugrade to Lollipop, but I don't know if it's strictly related to that device, as it's an Italian app and here that's still the only widely diffuse (i.e. that I know of) device that's getting Lollipop. However, I tried it on the emulator, with stock Android 5, and it's working fine.

I'm attaching the stack trace, any help on how to proceed would be appreciated... with native problems, I don't know where to put my hands.

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Build fingerprint: 'samsung/kltexx/klte:5.0/LRX21T/G900FXXU1BNL9:user/release-keys'
Revision: '14'
ABI: 'arm'
pid: 24219, tid: 24259, name: IntentService[I >>> it.mydomain.myapp <<<
signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x0
r0 afcb8c00 r1 001000e6 r2 af201428 r3 00000000
r4 76eb1338 r5 700981c0 r6 af50e4c2 r7 afcb8c00
r8 af201070 r9 b4f7e300 sl b4efac64 fp fffffb18
ip 00100002 sp af200f60 lr b4cd52ab pc b4cd52ca cpsr 600f0030

backtrace:
#00 pc 000d32ca /system/lib/libart.so (art::ClassLinker::FindClassInPathClassLoader(art::ScopedObjectAccessAlreadyRunnable&, art::Thread*, char const*, art::Handle<art::mirror::ClassLoader>)+77)
#01 pc 000d3739 /system/lib/libart.so (_ZN3art11ClassLinker9FindClassEPNS_6ThreadEPKcNS_6HandleINS_6mirror11ClassLoaderEEE.part.404+356)
#02 pc 000d5ded /system/lib/libart.so (art::ClassLinker::CreateArrayClass(art::Thread*, char const*, art::Handle<art::mirror::ClassLoader>)+88)
#03 pc 000d37d1 /system/lib/libart.so (_ZN3art11ClassLinker9FindClassEPNS_6ThreadEPKcNS_6HandleINS_6mirror11ClassLoaderEEE.part.404+508)
#04 pc 000d5ded /system/lib/libart.so (art::ClassLinker::CreateArrayClass(art::Thread*, char const*, art::Handle<art::mirror::ClassLoader>)+88)
#05 pc 000d37d1 /system/lib/libart.so (_ZN3art11ClassLinker9FindClassEPNS_6ThreadEPKcNS_6HandleINS_6mirror11ClassLoaderEEE.part.404+508)
#06 pc 001fe583 /system/lib/libart.so (art::Array_createObjectArray(_JNIEnv*, _jclass*, _jclass*, int)+422)

Answer 1

This is a known issue - but unfortunately not documented anywhere. I too faced it in our app and solved by not using zopfli. For my app - happened only on OS 5.0.x.

Some links which talk about the same: Native crash at /system/lib/libart.so on lollipop android 5.0.1 samsung

http://developer.samsung.com/forum/board/thread/view.do?boardName=General&messageId=279862&frm=7&tagValue=lollipop&curPage=1