Test crash/hangs - Catalyst Instance has already disappeared

What happened?

The same error happens sporadically. So far around 4-5 out of 25-ish runs. (Always the same spec)

Small piece of the logs:

11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 I ReactNative: [GESTURE HANDLER] Tearing down gesture handler registered for root view com.facebook.react.ReactRootView{fdb8e31 V.E...... ......ID 0,0-1080,2028}
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: Unhandled SoftException
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: java.lang.RuntimeException: Catalyst Instance has already disappeared: requested by DeviceInfo
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactContextBaseJavaModule.getReactApplicationContextIfActiveOrWarn(ReactContextBaseJavaModule.java:66)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at com.facebook.react.modules.deviceinfo.DeviceInfoModule.invalidate(DeviceInfoModule.java:114)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at com.facebook.react.bridge.ModuleHolder.destroy(ModuleHolder.java:110)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at com.facebook.react.bridge.NativeModuleRegistry.notifyJSInstanceDestroy(NativeModuleRegistry.java:108)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at com.facebook.react.bridge.CatalystInstanceImpl$1.run(CatalystInstanceImpl.java:368)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadHandler.dispatchMessage(MessageQueueThreadHandler.java:27)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at androidx.test.espresso.base.Interrogator.loopAndInterrogate(Interrogator.java:14)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at androidx.test.espresso.base.LooperIdlingResourceInterrogationHandler$2.run(LooperIdlingResourceInterrogationHandler.java:3)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at com.facebook.react.bridge.queue.MessageQueueThreadImpl$4.run(MessageQueueThreadImpl.java:228)
11-21 04:30:45.164  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)
11-21 04:30:45.165  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: Unhandled SoftException
11-21 04:30:45.165  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: java.lang.RuntimeException: Catalyst Instance has already disappeared: requested by NativeAnimatedModule
11-21 04:30:45.165  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactContextBaseJavaModule.getReactApplicationContextIfActiveOrWarn(ReactContextBaseJavaModule.java:66)
11-21 04:30:45.165  2439  2756 E unknown:ReactContextBaseJavaModule: 	at com.facebook.react.animated.NativeAnimatedModule.invalidate(NativeAnimatedModule.java:1012)

What was the expected behaviour?

To pass.

We do not ever experience this crash when developing on the emulator, nor on real test devices. ONLY in e2e + detox. Google results didn’t help so much… Some older RN issues only.

Was it tested on latest Detox?

• I have tested this issue on the latest Detox release and it still reproduces.

Did your test throw out a timeout?

• ~I have followed the instructions under Identifying which synchronization mechanism causes us to wait too much~ not a timeout.

Help us reproduce this issue!

No response

In what environment did this happen?

Detox version: 20.0.1 React Native version: 0.70.4 Node version: Device model: Pixel 3 Emulator Android version: 29

Detox logs

https://gist.github.com/kg-currenxie/3af61f109303a2e7acedb9e8b8c941ee

Device logs

https://gist.github.com/kg-currenxie/925fd5694232fdebfb0341fc10611110

More data, please!

Just hangs after 21s:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/48229166/203095438-9838b318-b86d-438f-80bc-3d22f5d764ec.mp4

[Frexuz]

Also, congrats on the new image and alias 😄

private / work accounts 😃

[d4vidi]

Thx for the time and research 😃 Interesting… will have to dig deeper The screen seems “simple” to me… not sure what would make the tap busy.

This could be the obvious but try mimicking this behavior without Detox. You might end up reproducing the same behavior manually…