Cannot locate symbol "stderr" referenced by libjnirivebridge.so

[SoftickSupport]

UPD 15/06/2023

I reproduced the problem on a test project https://github.com/SoftickSupport/RiveCrash .

Android Studio Emulator API 21 implementation 'app.rive:rive-android:4.2.2' everything is OK, implementation 'app.rive:rive-android:4.3.2' the project crashes, implementation 'app.rive:rive-android:5.1.3' the project crashes.

Android Studio Emulator API 22+ Everything is OK with all versions of the library.

I hope this helps.

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I added Rive animation to my project some time ago. Until recently, everything was fine. However, a few days ago, I received a dozen crashes in the Firebase Console.

Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to get provider androidx.startup.InitializationProvider: androidx.startup.StartupException: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dlopen failed: cannot locate symbol "stderr" referenced by "libjnirivebridge.so"... at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:5694) at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:5286) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:5226) at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1600(ActivityThread.java:181) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1537) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6134) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1399) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1194)

All the crashes are from a single user.

Device & Versions

• Galaxy Tab4 10.1
• Android v5.0.2
• rive-android library v4.3.2

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce that problem. Thanks for any help.

[berteodosio]

Are there any updates on this? I'm also having the same issue, using rive-react-native: Rive React Native version: 4.1.1

[mrrobot97]

I'm facing a similar crash stack trace:

dlopen("/xxx/librive-android.so", RTLD_LAZY) failed: dlopen failed: cannot locate symbol "stderr" referenced by "librive-android.so"...

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dlopen failed: cannot locate symbol "stderr" referenced by "librive-android.so"... at java.lang.Runtime.load(Runtime.java:331) at java.lang.System.load(System.java:982) at a05.d(SourceFile:54) at a05.c(SourceFile:3) at app.rive.runtime.kotlin.core.Rive.init(SourceFile:1) at app.rive.runtime.kotlin.core.Rive.init$default(SourceFile:1)

device: Xiaomi MI2(Android 5.0.2 API21)

app.rive:rive-android:8.7.0

[Athulmohahnan]

Hi @umberto-sonnino

Encountering the identical problem with implementation 'app.rive:rive-android:9.0.10' on Android version 5.0.0 (Lollipop). Any progress on resolving this? It seems like this issue has been reported by users for a year now, yet there hasn't been an update.

[umberto-sonnino]

Hi @umberto-sonnino

Encountering the identical problem with implementation 'app.rive:rive-android:9.0.10' on Android version 5.0.0 (Lollipop). Any progress on resolving this? It seems like this issue has been reported by users for a year now, yet there hasn't been an update.

Hi @Athulmohahnan We looked into this last year and we didn't find a fix for it - we're aware that API 21 isn't compatible right now. We're still looking to sort this out, but the easiest fix at the moment it to target 22 and above.

[umberto-sonnino]

Hi @Athulmohahnan and @SoftickSupport I went back to this today and the repro provided in the original message (https://github.com/SoftickSupport/RiveCrash), which I can still see crashing on our old version, is building and running fine on our latest v9.3.2. Can you confirm if that's the case for you too?

[umberto-sonnino]

I'm going to close the issue for now, I couldn't reproduce this anymore on our latest version. If you run into this again, feel free to reopen it!