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Receiver not registered

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, kotlin
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start by reproducing the IllegalArgumentException and trace the call path from GreedyScheduler.onExecuted through ConstraintTracker.removeListener to NetworkStateTracker.stopTracking. Inspect the referenced WorkManager classes and Android receiver lifecycle; done means the reported crash no longer occurs during constraint tracking cleanup.

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Description

Fatal Exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Receiver not registered: androidx.work.impl.constraints.trackers.NetworkStateTracker$NetworkStateBroadcastReceiver@e94f739
at android.app.LoadedApk.forgetReceiverDispatcher(LoadedApk.java:862)
at android.app.ContextImpl.unregisterReceiver(ContextImpl.java:1355)
at android.content.ContextWrapper.unregisterReceiver(ContextWrapper.java:576)
at androidx.work.impl.constraints.trackers.NetworkStateTracker.stopTracking(NetworkStateTracker.java:125)
at androidx.work.impl.constraints.trackers.ConstraintTracker.removeListener(ConstraintTracker.java:86)
at androidx.work.impl.constraints.controllers.ConstraintController.replace(ConstraintController.java:97)
at androidx.work.impl.constraints.WorkConstraintsTracker.replace(WorkConstraintsTracker.java:106)
at androidx.work.impl.background.greedy.GreedyScheduler.removeConstraintTrackingFor(GreedyScheduler.java:222)
at androidx.work.impl.background.greedy.GreedyScheduler.onExecuted(GreedyScheduler.java:208)
at androidx.work.impl.Processor.onExecuted(Processor.java:304)
at androidx.work.impl.Processor$FutureListener.run(Processor.java:377)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:743)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5665)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:822)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:712)

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