App extension crashed the simulator

[irm emc]

Hello everyone,

We use Jenkins to do automation tests for an iOS Application. This iOS Application contains an App Extension. We install xctool to do the automation tests.

But the simulator crashed before any test can start. The crash report shows that the init function of the App Extension causes the crash. Note that we didn't call anything of the App Extension, and we did not test the App Extension yet in our automation tests. The automation tests run successfully inside xCode. But it has trouble to run from Jenkins using xctool.

It is a DocumentProvider application extension. The crash is inside the documentStorageURL system call as shown in the crash log below.

Now my questions:

1) When we do automation tests from Jenkins, shall the App Extension be involved? It seems to me that the init function of the App Extension shall not be called at all. Who is calling this function?

2) Did anyone try to do automation test from Jenkins for an Application with App Extension? Does this even work?

Thanks in advance.

=========== Crash report from xctool in Jenkins Console Output ====

Test did not run: the test bundle stopped running or crashed before the test suite started.

CRASH REPORT: DocumentProviderFileProvider_2015-05-05-131153_mobile-build-machine.crash

Process:               DocumentProviderFileProvider [60158]
Path:                  ........... (removed)
Identifier:            DocumentProviderFileProvider
Version:               0
Code Type:             X86 (Native)
Parent Process:        launchd_sim [59866]
Responsible:           launchd_sim [59866]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2015-05-05 13:11:20.422 -0700
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10.2 (14C109)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        FC4346E1-3FDE-69F9-791D-694DCD170BF7


Time Awake Since Boot: 1800000 seconds

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: NSFileProviderExtension member sync queue

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
abort() called
CoreSimulator 117.5.4 - Device: iPad 2 - Runtime: iOS 8.1 (12B411) - DeviceType: iPad 2

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: NSFileProviderExtension member sync queue
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib        	0x03bb669a __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x03be4f19 pthread_kill + 101
2   libsystem_sim_c.dylib         	0x0396ea5a abort + 156
3   DocumentProviderFileProvider  	0x00266a1f uncaught_exception_handler + 38
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x02fced80 __handleUncaughtException + 832
5   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x021fbd3d _objc_terminate() + 100
6   libc++abi.dylib               	0x03792cf0 std::__terminate(void (*)()) + 14
7   libc++abi.dylib               	0x03792d72 std::terminate() + 66
8   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x021fbcaf objc_terminate + 11
9   libdispatch.dylib             	0x038a5052 _dispatch_client_callout + 33
10  libdispatch.dylib             	0x0388cdb8 _dispatch_barrier_sync_f_invoke + 79
11  libdispatch.dylib             	0x0388c8ea dispatch_barrier_sync_f + 105
12  libdispatch.dylib             	0x0388ce40 dispatch_barrier_sync + 54
13  com.apple.UIKit               	0x00f1163d -[NSFileProviderExtension documentStorageURL] + 167
14  DocumentProviderFileProvider  	0x00130c25 -[FileProvider init] + 293 (FileProvider.m:48)
15  libextension.dylib            	0x04f9574f __105-[_NSExtensionContextVendor _beginRequestWithExtensionItems:listenerEndpoint:withContextUUID:completion:]_block_invoke + 875
16  libdispatch.dylib             	0x03888a2a _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15
17  libdispatch.dylib             	0x038a503f _dispatch_client_callout + 14
18  libdispatch.dylib             	0x0388e764 _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 470
19  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x02f2895e __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 14
20  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x02ee7760 __CFRunLoopRun + 2256
21  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x02ee6bcb CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 443
22  com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x02ee69fb CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
23  com.apple.Foundation          	0x01e03d98 -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) runMode:beforeDate:] + 309
24  com.apple.Foundation          	0x01ea367b -[NSRunLoop(NSRunLoop) run] + 82
25  libxpc.dylib                  	0x03b6490d _xpc_objc_main + 423
26  libxpc.dylib                  	0x03b6755a xpc_main + 199
27  com.apple.Foundation          	0x01facd16 -[NSXPCListener resume] + 186
28  com.apple.pluginkit.framework 	0x01d4fa62 -[PKService run] + 552
29  com.apple.pluginkit.framework 	0x01d4f6d2 +[PKService main] + 66
30  com.apple.pluginkit.framework 	0x01d4fab7 +[PKService _defaultRun:arguments:] + 33
31  libextension.dylib            	0x04fa6b6a NSExtensionMain + 60
32  libdyld.dylib                 	0x038caac9 start + 1