Android crashes when booting on 0.68.0-rc.2 when hermes enabled

[RalissonMattias]

Description

When updating to the new version the app crashes on start. I have hermes enabled.
I get the following log

2022-03-11 10:47:27.653 24788-24788/com.jurishand.app E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.jurishand.app, PID: 24788
    java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: couldn't find DSO to load: libjscexecutor.so caused by: dlopen failed: library "libjsc.so" not found result: 0
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.doLoadLibraryBySoName(SoLoader.java:1098)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibraryBySoNameImpl(SoLoader.java:914)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibraryBySoName(SoLoader.java:826)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibrary(SoLoader.java:773)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.loadLibrary(SoLoader.java:743)
        at com.facebook.react.jscexecutor.JSCExecutor.loadLibrary(JSCExecutor.java:24)
        at com.facebook.react.jscexecutor.JSCExecutor.<clinit>(JSCExecutor.java:20)
        at com.facebook.react.jscexecutor.JSCExecutor.loadLibrary(JSCExecutor.java:24)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.getDefaultJSExecutorFactory(ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.java:351)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.build(ReactInstanceManagerBuilder.java:318)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost.createReactInstanceManager(ReactNativeHost.java:95)
        at com.facebook.react.ReactNativeHost.getReactInstanceManager(ReactNativeHost.java:42)
        at com.jurishand.app.MainApplication.onCreate(MainApplication.java:71)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1182)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:6460)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1300(ActivityThread.java:219)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1859)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)
     Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dlopen failed: library "libjsc.so" not found
        at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:938)
        at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1631)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader$1.load(SoLoader.java:529)
        at com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource.loadLibraryFrom(DirectorySoSource.java:110)
        at com.facebook.soloader.DirectorySoSource.loadLibrary(DirectorySoSource.java:63)
        at com.facebook.soloader.ApplicationSoSource.loadLibrary(ApplicationSoSource.java:91)
        at com.facebook.soloader.SoLoader.doLoadLibraryBySoName(SoLoader.java:1038)

I tried a solution that worked and the app works correctly

in android/build.gradle add

maven {
  url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
}

in android/app/build.gradle add

if (useIntlJsc) {
   implementation 'org.webkit:android-jsc-intl:+'
} else {
   implementation 'org.webkit:android-jsc:+'
}   

however the const isHermes = () => !!global.HermesInternal; returns false

Version

0.68.0-rc.2

Output of npx react-native info

System:
OS: Windows 10 10.0.22000
CPU: (8) x64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 1.89 GB / 15.73 GB
Binaries:
Node: 16.13.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
Yarn: 1.22.17 - ~\AppData\Roaming\npm\yarn.CMD
npm: 8.1.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
Watchman: Not Found
SDKs:
Android SDK:
API Levels: 23, 28, 29, 30, 31
Build Tools: 28.0.2, 28.0.3, 29.0.2, 30.0.2, 30.0.3, 31.0.0
System Images: android-28 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-29 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-29 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom, android-30 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-30 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom
Android NDK: Not Found
Windows SDK: Not Found
IDEs:
Android Studio: Version 2021.1.0.0 AI-211.7628.21.2111.8092744
Visual Studio: Not Found
Languages:
Java: 11.0.12
npmPackages:
@react-native-community/cli: Not Found
react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2
react-native: 0.68.0-rc.2 => 0.68.0-rc.2
react-native-windows: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
react-native: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

Update RN from 0.66.4 to 0.68.0-rc.2

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

No response

[RalissonMattias]

I've already seen some similar links

• Android with RN 0.67.3 crashes when running custom build type with hermes enabled #33177

[cortinico]

Are you running on a custom flavor/build-type?

[RalissonMattias]

Look how is my buildTypes

    buildTypes {
        debug {
            signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
            resValue "string", "CodePushDeploymentKey", '"key"'
            if (nativeArchitectures) {
                ndk {
                    abiFilters nativeArchitectures.split(',')
                }
            }
        }
        releaseStaging {
            resValue "string", "CodePushDeploymentKey", '"key"'

            // Note: It is a good idea to provide matchingFallbacks for the new buildType you create to prevent build issues
            // Add the following line if not already there
            matchingFallbacks = ['release']
        }
        release {
            // Caution! In production, you need to generate your own keystore file.
            // see https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/signed-apk-android.
            minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
            resValue "string", "CodePushDeploymentKey", '"key"'
        }
    }

[cortinico]

Could you (or someone else) create a reproducer using the default template for Android and your configuration + verify that it also crashes? That would be a good starting point to find a fix

[RalissonMattias]

@cortinico ok i will do it

[RalissonMattias]

@cortinico I changed my buildTypes in a default project with my current project settings, the app doesn't break. But when I put all the build.gradle in the default project the app crashes

[RalissonMattias]

I will do more tests and compare the two versions

[RalissonMattias]

@cortinico I found the problem

This code snippet was at the top of my file

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"
apply from: "../../node_modules/@sentry/react-native/sentry.gradle"
apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native-code-push/android/codepush.gradle"

Doing this on my android/app/build.gradle resolves my problem

project.ext.react = [
    entryFile: "index.js",
    enableHermes: true,  // clean and rebuild if changing
]

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"
apply from: "../../node_modules/@sentry/react-native/sentry.gradle"
apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native-code-push/android/codepush.gradle"

[cortinico]

Awesome 👍

[zhuzheng1991]

i fix this. you can override getJavaScriptExecutorFactory in your ReactNativeHost if you use hermes,force JSExecutorFactory use hermesExecutorFactory

override fun getJavaScriptExecutorFactory(): JavaScriptExecutorFactory? {
        HermesExecutor.loadLibrary()
        return HermesExecutorFactory()
}