Slowly rebooting bug occurs again!

[28Black]

Hi Marcel,

Do you remember the problem? I have even previously sent you a logcat. Anyway, the problem was gone when I had completely reinstalled XPrivacy and had set it up again from scratch.

Since this morning, the problem occurs in the known circumference again. The reboot process takes now up to 10 minutes!!

If I freeze Xprivacy, the problem is gone.

Recently, I have not taken any new restrictions, the problem came almost overnight, and all by itself!

Any ideas? I still do not seem to be the only one with the problem!

[M66B]

Same as this https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy/issues/59#issuecomment-19858443 ?

[28Black]

Yes :(

[M66B]

Did you check super user?

[28Black]

Yes, theres no problem, its granted till my smartphone starts ;)

[M66B]

Then please paste a link here to a captured logcat.

[portamento]

Here the same problem with rebooting lag (10-15 minutes in my case!!!). I'm going to read about how to obtain a logcat to send it to you.

[28Black]

Today I had to reboot my phone twice... holy cow its so damn annoying to wait ...and wait....and wait... Sorry, atm I did not get the chance to record a logcat at a PC.

But I am seriously considering to uninstall after XPrivacy again :( That would be really, really Too bad!

[M66B]

Please attach a link to a logcat to this issue.

[28Black]

Sorry, atm I did not get the chance to record a logcat at a PC. I hope portamento can do this :/ but have my old logcat... ;)

[portamento]

Hi Marcel. I just sent you a PM on XDA with a link to the logcat obtained during the last reboot of my device. Please, let me know if it's OK.

[M66B]

@portamento there is a lot of text in the logcat and I don't see apparent problems, except maybe that your device seems to have limited memory available.

[portamento]

But if I disable XPrivacy on Xposed, rebooting process ends in a few seconds, so it doesn't seem to be a memory issue.

P. S. Thanks to have taken the trouble to check such a huge logcat.

[28Black]

Yes same here, disabling XPrivacy solves the problem immediately. So it must be a problem caused by XPrivacy!!!

Maybe it's caused by the restriction of booting apps?...

[M66B]

@28Black: most probably this is caused by restrictions set in expert mode.

Make a backup of XPrivacy, clear all settings of XPrivacy as described in the FAQ and reboot to see if any restriction is causing this. If your paranoid level is high, disable internet beforehand.

If a restriction is causing this, try to figure out which one and if you found out which one, please document it in the wiki. http://wiki.faircode.eu/index.php?title=XPrivacy

[28Black]

"If a restriction is causing this, try to figure out which one"

• Hi Marcel, and how did you imagine that? Should I switch every single permission manually to figure it out from more than 130 apps? :D :D Sorry, that would take many many days of intensive work.

[28Black]

btw: Expert Mode was not enabled ;)

[28Black]

Do I get the Pro Version when I find the bug? :D Then I'll spend my time in investigating :dancer:

[M66B]

All contributors can get the pro version without donating.

[28Black]

Hooah! So I'm working! (Anyway I'm considering a donation for your awesome work :+1: )

[M66B]

Can you please tell for the benefit of others what was the problem? Maybe document what not to do in the wiki: http://wiki.faircode.eu/index.php?title=XPrivacy

[28Black]

You have misunderstood me! I wanted to say that I'm working on it, to be a contributor. :D

However, I have finally found the error at 3 o'clock in the last night.

The cause is, as I suspected, the boot restriction. If one sets the hook, for an app that automatically starts (indicated by the warning triangle) then the next system boot-up takes extremely long time! If you remove the checkmarks for these apps, the next boot process is fast like it should be! :)

[M66B]

Are you using the latest version?

[28Black]

Yes

[28Black]

It occurs in every version so far;)

[M66B]

Then it must be specific apps being restricted, since I don't have this problem.

[28Black]

I can tell you which apps are affected....

[28Black]

Each app I've tested individually. Each is causing the slow boot-up.

• Adaway
• AppAware
• AppSales
• Dolphin Jetpack
• Facebook
• Folder Organizer
• LagFix (fstrim) Premium
• Tapatalk
• Viber
• Whatsapp 2 date
• Whatshaddow

Deselect any of these apps or freeze Xprivacy solves the problem immediately;)

[28Black]

So maybe you can check your code for the "boot" restriction ;)

[M66B]

I already did, but it is very simple: https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy/blob/master/src/biz/bokhorst/xprivacy/XActivityThread.java#L53

[M66B]

My best guess is that your device has not enough memory for what you are doing and that XPrivacy uses a little memory more, resulting in this problem.

[28Black]

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3 , so I dont think I'm running out of memory ;)

An idea from me: Can you send me a "special" version, which logs exactly what and when your boat restriction is doing sth? Then I'll boot normally and send you the result. After that I'll restrict one of the apps above and reboot again. I'll also send you this result. Then you can see exactly where the error lies, right?

[M66B]

All versions write in the logcat, try the command:

logcat | grep XPrivacy

[28Black]

Sorry, atm I did not get the chance to record a logcat at a PC

[M66B]

Looking into it again

[M66B]

I have added some cleanup code, could you please try if it helps:

http://www.faircode.eu/xprivacy/XPrivacy_0.40.1.apk

[M66B]

Better use the today released version 0.41, it has the same cleanup code.

[28Black]

Tested it with half of the listed Apps now,... it seems to be fixed now!!! :] Great work :) Can you maybe explain me how you're cleanup code does its magic? :)

Thanks again for your great help! :)

[M66B]

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy/blob/master/src/biz/bokhorst/xprivacy/XActivityThread.java#L121

[Tungstwenty]

When linking to changed code, I would suggest using an URL bound to a specific commit instead of the master, as the link would be pointing to the wrong place in the future. Something like: https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy/blob/8504ad05b5ac0cf100760aabb973904c0b89aa8e/src/biz/bokhorst/xprivacy/XActivityThread.java#L121