[mono-android] Stacktrace From Developer Console

[Justin Hansen]

This is coming from a release build that is on the app marketplace.
This stack trace is from the developer console. I see debug in the
path for the manager, why is it looking for that?

Justin Hansen

On Jun 3, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Jonathan Pryor <jonp at xamarin.com> wrote:

> On Jun 3, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Fencer04 wrote:
>> It seems like sometimes on start the application is crashing. I can't replicate it on any of my test devices and was wondering if someone can help me out. Any help you can give me would be great.
>
> The NullPointerException is coming from mono.MonoPackageManager, which (conveniently!) enough you have on your machine; look in e.g. $(ProjectDir)\obj\Debug\android\src\MonoPackageManager.java.
>
> MonoPackageManager.java:27:
>
>    String filesDir = context.getFilesDir ().getAbsolutePath ();
>
> So either `context` is null (highly unlikely), or `context.getFilesDir()` is returning null, which is in fact possible and thus quite probable:
>
>    https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/app/ContextImpl.java#L642
>
> If this is the case, and you have access to the android debug log, you should see a message such as:
>
>    Unable to create files directory /...
>
> The most probable cause is that the user is running out of disk space, though a filesystem permissions issue could be at fault as well.
>
> - Jon
>
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