[HOLD for payment 2024-07-10] [HOLD for payment 2024-07-02] `hermesc` fails on ~50% of Android builds

[AndrewGable]

Problem

Our Android CI/CD builds fail ~50% of the time when building Android since enabling New Architecture.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:createBundleProductionReleaseJsAndAssets'.
> A problem occurred starting process 'command '/home/runner/work/App/App/node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/build/hermes/bin/hermesc''

Latest build failure: https://github.com/Expensify/App/actions/runs/9588292696/job/26440031076

Raw Logs: 10_Run Fastlane beta.txt

We think we've confirmed that this can still happen without any caches enabled, but we are open to trying removing caching or any intermediate steps to try to reduce the number of failures. We usually are able to get it to build successfully on the second or third build try.

Solution

Fix it!

cc @WoLewicki @j-piasecki

[WoLewicki]

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[WoLewicki]

Seems like we found a similar issue: facebook/react-native#44952. We'll try to find out if it needs to be upstreamed or added locally to our App.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @thienlnam, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.