crash with IllegalStateException after connecting signal desktop

[mutax]

I have:

• searched open and closed issues for duplicates
• read https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Submitting-useful-bug-reports

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Bug description

Signal on android crashes directly after start or as soon as network connectivity ist established.
It startet after I installed signal desktop in chrome and clicked on 'sync contacts with phone'.
It seems as if a network request to retrieve the data crashes the app on the phone.
Groups are synced to chrome, individual contacts are not.

Steps to reproduce

• install signal desktop in chrome
• connect android phone via scanning of QR code
• request contact sync to chrome

Actual result:
crash as soon as I enable wifi or if I start the application on android with enabled network.

Expected result:
Android app not crashing without user interaction

Device info

Device: HUAWEI HUAWEI Y360-U61 (Y360-U61)
Android: 4.4.2 (C577B111, Y360-U61V100R001C577B111)
Memory : 17M (31.42% free, 128M max)
Memclass: 128, low-mem device
OS Host : ubuntu
App: : Signal 3.19.1

--------- beginning of /dev/log/system
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993): FATAL EXCEPTION: JobConsumer-2
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993): Process: org.thoughtcrime.securesms, PID: 5993
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993): java.lang.IllegalStateException: Couldn't read row 0, col -1 from CursorWindow.  Make sure the Cursor is initialized correctly before accessing data from it.
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1480)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:185)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at android.database.DatabaseUtils.readExceptionFromParcel(DatabaseUtils.java:137)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at android.content.ContentProviderProxy.query(ContentProviderNative.java:413)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at android.content.ContentResolver.query(ContentResolver.java:462)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at android.content.ContentResolver.query(ContentResolver.java:405)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.recipients.RecipientProvider.getIndividualRecipientDetails(RecipientProvider.java:136)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.recipients.RecipientProvider.getRecipientDetailsSync(RecipientProvider.java:129)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.recipients.RecipientProvider.getRecipient(RecipientProvider.java:82)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.recipients.RecipientProvider.getRecipients(RecipientProvider.java:96)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.recipients.RecipientFactory.getRecipientsForIds(RecipientFactory.java:109)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.recipients.RecipientFactory.getRecipientsFromString(RecipientFactory.java:84)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.jobs.MultiDeviceContactUpdateJob.getColor(MultiDeviceContactUpdateJob.java:144)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.jobs.MultiDeviceContactUpdateJob.generateFullContactUpdate(MultiDeviceContactUpdateJob.java:113)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.jobs.MultiDeviceContactUpdateJob.onRun(MultiDeviceContactUpdateJob.java:72)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.thoughtcrime.securesms.jobs.MasterSecretJob.onRun(MasterSecretJob.java:18)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.whispersystems.jobqueue.JobConsumer.runJob(JobConsumer.java:76)
E/AndroidRuntime( 5993):    at org.whispersystems.jobqueue.JobConsumer.run(JobConsumer.java:46)

[moxie0]

Weird thing about this is that it's a crash in the android code, not ours.

[mutax]

For me it looks like a database query is made to get the users and the cursor in the sqlite is not setup correctly, e.g. the code tries to get more entries from the query although the query is not yet setup correctly.

update:
If I look at org/thoughtcrime/securesms/contacts/ContactIdentityManagerICS.java I also see that there is a try{} wrapped around the context.getContentResolver().query in line 63.

[moxie0]

yeah we're making the query to the system's contact provider, and the crash is happening over in the provider

[mutax]

bump? would really be nice so see at least a try catch around that so I can finally use it again...

[Trolldemorted]

@mutax does this still happen?

Would you install a self-compiled version of Android (or attach a debugger) and tell us the value of uri?

[automated-signal]

GitHub Issue Cleanup:
See #7598 for more information.