Yeah I think I might, I read that code too. I think if you get a littler further it prints out something like can't move file because UID is different so you end up with just a broken app that is sort of stuck since you can't read/delete/write to old data and aren't allowed to create new data.
On Jul 25, 2:49 am, Nikolay Elenkov <nikolay.elen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Greg Giacovelli <miyamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sadly that "open issue" has been marked unreproducible ... I don't > > understand why but I guess it's not going to be addressed. > > I found another :) > > http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4381 > > Comment 2 says that changing to a sharedUserId is unsupported. > > Digging into this further, PackageManagerService.java creates a > new package entry if the sharedUserId has changed, there is > even a warning: > > reportSettingsProblem(Log.WARN, > "Package " + name + " shared user changed from " > + (p.sharedUser != null ? p.sharedUser.name : "<nothing>") > + " to " > + (sharedUser != null ? sharedUser.name : "<nothing>") > + "; replacing with new"); > > It then iterates over all assigned UID (quote: 'stupidly inefficient > for now' :)) > and returns a new one. Why it's done this way I have no idea though. > BTW, the sharedUserId is saved in packages.xml along with other package info. > > > > > I checked all the documentation about the UID of the app and I didn't > > find anything warning of it being impossible to change. > > Maybe I read it in some bug report, like the one above. You might want to > file a documentation bug for this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
