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ajacian81
ajacian81

Reputation: 7579

Security warning on libdvm.so noticed while deploying Android apps

Has anyone seen this before?

ActivityManager: WARNING: linker: libdvm.so has text relocations. This is wasting memory and is a security risk. Please fix.

This occurs as I'm trying to deploy an app to my device. Google doesn't seem to help at this point.

Upvotes: 53

Views: 40682

Answers (4)

Seth W. Klein
Seth W. Klein

Reputation: 303

I was getting this error because I was trying to install an APK with minSdkVersion set higher than the device supported.

Upvotes: 10

Bhrugs
Bhrugs

Reputation: 53

There may be so many reasons behind this error, one of them was what I was getting, but then this error was solved.

check while creating emulator, it is 'compatible' or not? on Emulator selection screen [see for last column].

if not compatible, then select 'target sdk' as the highest version by editing existing 'Emulator' [as it should be greater than min sdk].

Upvotes: 0

Lea
Lea

Reputation: 151

I had the same error and i fixed it by removing other versions of the app installed on the device.

Upvotes: 5

Chris Stratton
Chris Stratton

Reputation: 40397

Were this your own jni library or native executable the solution would be to update to ndk r8c or later as discussed at:

mylib.so has text relocations. This is wasting memory and is a security risk. Please fix

in order to obtain a fix for https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23203

However as this appears to be in a platform library (specifically the Dalvik VM itself) rather than something you built, there is not much of anything you can do. You'll likely see this on every Activity process (or at least runtime) startup, until your device manufacturer does an update.

It is only a warning though.

Upvotes: 29

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