The API 37 emulator images abort surfaceflinger inside the guest's Gralloc5 mapper,
init SIGKILLs zygote with it, and the framework restarts under the run. run-e2e.sh
and the CI leg disable SystemUI to remove the trigger -- but that removes the IDLE
one, RegionSamplingThread's nav-bar luma sampling. Driving DocumentsUI and rotating
the display are not idle. They are the first things in this suite that generate
surface traffic of their own.
Both tests were measured on android-37.0 under swangle_indirect with SystemUI
disabled and verified quiet, and measured SEPARATELY -- inferring the second from
the first is the mistake docs/api-37-emulator-crash.md opens by correcting. They
fail in the two shapes a framework restart produces:
thePickedInputSurvivesARealRotation
INSTRUMENTATION_ABORTED: System has crashed.
Expected 59 tests, received 50
(5 hasReadColorBufferDma aborts; the framework dies DURING the test, so six
later tests never run and the XML carries a failure with no text at all)
pickingAFileThroughTheSystemPickerFillsInTheFileCard
androidx.test.uiautomator.StaleObjectException
at androidx.test.uiautomator.UiObject2.click(UiObject2.java:526)
(3 aborts; the picker's root node was rebuilt between finding it and tapping it)
Both pass on API 33 and API 36 locally -- whole suite, 59/0/0/2 on each -- which is
the same evidence pattern that made the Media3EngineTest pair the image rather than
the app.
So the class carries @FailsOnEmulatorApi37 and runs on the advisory leg.
THREE PLACES SAID "nothing in this suite touches system UI", and that is what makes
the SystemUI-disable deviation defensible. It is no longer true of the suite, and all
three are corrected rather than left to rot -- the workflow comment, run-e2e.sh's
header, and the doc. The rule they state is being APPLIED, not broken: the thing that
depends on system UI is excluded from the leg that cannot be trusted for it.
Two consequences stated rather than left to be discovered:
- run-e2e.sh applies no annotation filter, unlike CI, so a local `run-e2e.sh 37`
reports these two on top of the Media3 pair AND DOES NOT FINISH. Its totals come
back short and which later tests ran is arbitrary. The summary row now says so;
it previously promised "exactly two failures", which would have read as a
regression in someone else's diff.
- The advisory job is still named "E2E API 37 Media3 hardware transcode", and half
of what it now runs is neither. Renaming a check touches branch protection, so it
is deliberately not done here; the doc records the staleness and the revisit
trigger now says the marker covers two unrelated bugs that can go green apart.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
JMR-devandClaude Opus 5
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