Nullpointerexception at Mapbox.getInstance method

[jiyeh]

Platform: 4/5/6
Mapbox SDK version: 5.1.0

Hey there, we are experiencing this NPE on some devices when calling Mapbox.getInstance(this, "OUR_TOKEN"); in Application class. Please help, thank you.

Stack trace:
Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create application ninjavan.swiftninja.NVDriverApplication: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String[] android.content.pm.PackageManager.getPackagesForUid(int)' on a null object reference at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4987) at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap1(ActivityThread.java) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1554) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:111) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:207) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5769) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:789) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:679) Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String[] android.content.pm.PackageManager.getPackagesForUid(int)' on a null object reference at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1605) at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1552) at android.location.ILocationManager$Stub$Proxy.requestLocationUpdates(ILocationManager.java:606) at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:885) at android.location.LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.java:469) at com.mapzen.android.lost.internal.FusionEngine.enablePassive(FusionEngine.java:120) at com.mapzen.android.lost.internal.FusionEngine.enable(FusionEngine.java:82) at com.mapzen.android.lost.internal.LocationEngine.setRequest(LocationEngine.java:36) at com.mapzen.android.lost.internal.FusedLocationProviderApiImpl.requestLocationUpdates(FusedLocationProviderApiImpl.java:50) at com.mapbox.mapboxsdk.location.LocationSource.requestLocationUpdates(LocationSource.java:123) at com.mapbox.services.android.telemetry.MapboxTelemetry.onConnected(MapboxTelemetry.java:375) at com.mapbox.mapboxsdk.location.LocationSource.activate(LocationSource.java:57) at com.mapbox.services.android.telemetry.MapboxTelemetry.registerLocationUpdates(MapboxTelemetry.java:370) at com.mapbox.services.android.telemetry.MapboxTelemetry.setTelemetryEnabled(MapboxTelemetry.java:312) at com.mapbox.services.android.telemetry.MapboxTelemetry.loadUserPreferences(MapboxTelemetry.java:282) at com.mapbox.services.android.telemetry.MapboxTelemetry.initialize(MapboxTelemetry.java:134) at com.mapbox.services.android.telemetry.MapboxTelemetry.initialize(MapboxTelemetry.java:103) at com.mapbox.mapboxsdk.Mapbox.getInstance(Mapbox.java:51) at ninjavan.swiftninja.NVDriverApplication.onCreate(NVDriverApplication.java:64) at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1019) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4984) at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap1(ActivityThread.java) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1554) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:111) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:207) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5769) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:789) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:679)

[tobrun]

This crash seems to stem from LOST, we don't call getPackagesForUid() in our code. Which version of LOST is added to your app? You can verify this with ./gradlew :module_name:dependencies and search for instances of lost.

Note that we downgraded to LOST 1.1.1 in v5.1.0

[jiyeh]

We are not using any LOST in our app, in fact this is the first time I heard about LOST.

[tobrun]

LOST can be pulled in from other dependencies, are you using any other mapbox dependencies?
Do you have a bit more information on how to reproduce this?
Are you able to reproduce this on demand?
Are specific devices affected?

[jiyeh]

Negative, no other mapbox dependencies added. We do have a few Google libraries added as below:
compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:9.8.0' compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:9.8.0' compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:9.8.0'

Got this report from Crashlytics, not reproducible so far and it happens on random devices, e.g. Sony, HTC, Lenovo and so on.

[jiyeh]

I am seeing only Mapbox has LOST dependency under the tree hierarchy in my project, after verifying with ./gradlew :module_name:dependencies command.

[DejanRistic]

@tobrun
We're seeing the same issue on our end, we aren't using our own Lost dependency.

For more info, i've shared the crash log: http://crashes.to/s/f17652df847

Looks to be mostly 6.0 for us.

Let me know if I should create an issue over at Lost instead

[tobrun]

This is going be catched with #9658. We are working on a new version of telemetry that will take in account this issue.