[HOLD for payment 2024-07-10] [HOLD for payment 2024-07-02] hermesc fails on ~50% of Android builds

[AndrewGable]

Problem

Our Android CI/CD builds fail ~50% of the time when building Android since enabling New Architecture.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:createBundleProductionReleaseJsAndAssets'.
> A problem occurred starting process 'command '/home/runner/work/App/App/node_modules/react-native/ReactAndroid/hermes-engine/build/hermes/bin/hermesc''

Latest build failure: https://github.com/Expensify/App/actions/runs/9588292696/job/26440031076

Raw Logs: 10_Run Fastlane beta.txt

We think we've confirmed that this can still happen without any caches enabled, but we are open to trying removing caching or any intermediate steps to try to reduce the number of failures. We usually are able to get it to build successfully on the second or third build try.

Solution

Fix it!

cc @WoLewicki @j-piasecki

[WoLewicki]

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[j-piasecki]

Commenting too

[WoLewicki]

Seems like we found a similar issue: facebook/react-native#44952. We'll try to find out if it needs to be upstreamed or added locally to our App.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @thienlnam, see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

[AndrewGable]

We CP-ed this and it's working, we will reopen if there are any further issues.

[melvin-bot]

Reviewing label has been removed, please complete the "BugZero Checklist".

[melvin-bot]

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.0.1-19 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• [CP Staging] Fix Android builds failing often on CI #44389

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2024-07-02. 🎊

For reference, here are some details about the assignees on this issue:

• @j-piasecki does not require payment (Contractor)
• @WoLewicki does not require payment (Contractor)

[melvin-bot]

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.0.3-7 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• [CP Staging] Fix Android builds failing often on CI #44389

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2024-07-10. 🎊

For reference, here are some details about the assignees on this issue:

• @j-piasecki does not require payment (Contractor)
• @WoLewicki does not require payment (Contractor)