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SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider com.google.android.apps.photos.contentprovider.MediaContentProvider that is not exported from uid 10063

See original GitHub issue

Posted by Tommy Gildseth on 12 Jul:

USER_COMMENT=Clicked the back button from a failed upload
ANDROID_VERSION=6.0.1
APP_VERSION_NAME=1.17
BRAND=google
PHONE_MODEL=Nexus 5X
CUSTOM_DATA=
STACK_TRACE=java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: opening provider com.google.android.apps.photos.contentprovider.MediaContentProvider from ProcessRecord{50fff77 18404:fr.free.nrw.commons/u0a118} (pid=18404, uid=10118) that is not exported from uid 10063
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1620)
at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1573)
at android.app.ActivityManagerProxy.getContentProvider(ActivityManagerNative.java:3550)
at android.app.ActivityThread.acquireProvider(ActivityThread.java:4783)
at android.app.ContextImpl$ApplicationContentResolver.acquireUnstableProvider(ContextImpl.java:2018)
at android.content.ContentResolver.acquireUnstableProvider(ContentResolver.java:1468)
at android.content.ContentResolver.openTypedAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:1088)
at android.content.ContentResolver.openAssetFileDescriptor(ContentResolver.java:942)
at android.content.ContentResolver.openInputStream(ContentResolver.java:662)
at fr.free.nrw.commons.upload.UploadService.uploadContribution(UploadService.java:176)
at fr.free.nrw.commons.upload.UploadService.handle(UploadService.java:114)
at fr.free.nrw.commons.upload.UploadService.handle(UploadService.java:27)
at fr.free.nrw.commons.HandlerService$ServiceHandler.handleMessage(HandlerService.java:19)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)

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nicolas-raoulcommented, Jul 12, 2016

Linking it here for the sake of findability: http://stackoverflow.com/q/38301605

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nicolas-raoulcommented, Apr 28, 2022

Anyone experiencing this issue on our latest Commons app, please open a new issue, thank you! 😃

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