Do you use android:sharedUserId?

If so, did you ever change its value?

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:40 PM, maciej <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've got many reports about our application crashing - the top crash in
> android developer console for us.
> The problem is that method context.getFilesDir() returns null.
> It is hard to reproduce (never have been able to do it locally).
> After investigation I have noticed that /data/data/<pkg> directory has wrong
> Linux permissions.
> The ApplicationInfo.uid and dir permissions do not match.
> I got uid = 10071 and dir with owner set to app_78.
> Usually there is no application installed corresponding to  app_78, but
> I have found cases when my /data/data/<pkg> directory has permission
> corresponding to other installed application.
> Due to that my application is not able to write into its private directory,
> files and shared_prefs directories can not be created.
>
> It looks like that uninstalling and installing application again fixes
> problem - but it was not confirmed by users.
>
> I have found this: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8886
>
> Does anybody encounter the same issue ?
> Is there any application level workaround ?
>
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