Yup, definitely gremlins. :-)
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:46 AM, William Ferguson
<william.ferguson...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Its on the UI thread from a button click.
>
> William
>
>
> On Feb 7, 11:37 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
>> When are you calling this?
>>
>> One conceivable scenario would be if you are doing this a bit
>> asynchronously from your activity (e.g., AsyncTask). If the user fired
>> up your activity, then hustled over to uninstall it, *and* if the
>> uninstall process were to update the package info before terminating
>> your process, *and* your background work called getPackageInfo()
>> between the update of PackageManager and your process being
>> terminated, I can see you getting this error. Even assuming all the
>> implementation stuff works as described, though, this seems like a
>> low-probability event.
>>
>> Beyond that, all I can think of are gremlins.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:43 AM, William Ferguson
>>
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>> <william.ferguson...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm received several instances of the IllegalStateException being
>> > thrown out in the wild.
>> > It's very rare and I can't reproduce it locally.
>>
>> > How is it possible for it to occur?
>> > NB Context below is this case is an Activity.
>>
>> > final String packageName = context.getPackageName();
>> > try {
>> > return context.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(packageName,
>> > PackageManager.GET_SIGNATURES);
>> > } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
>> > throw new IllegalStateException("Could not find the package for "
>> > + packageName + "!!", e);
>> > }
>>
>> > William
>>
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