20.04 Focal: uNav freezes with GPS enabled

costales

Hi everyone!

I migrated uNav to focal, but after enabling the GPS, if I enter into a QML dialog (Search or Settings) and exit, the UI is frozen. The bug comes from here.

Any idea please? Thank you in advance!

PS: How to reproduce:

Open uNav in focal.
Enable the GPS. (If I don't enable the GPS, the UI will not freeze).
Click on Settings icon (top bar).
Click on Back button (top bar).
Bug: UI is frozen.

The code I think is this one.

A Former User

@costales
The same thing happens with me ( Volla X 20.04 RC ).
Regards

saveurlinux

@costales I'm not sure it is relative to Unav, I experiment the same problem with Pure Maps.

A Former User

@saveurlinux
I also have the feeling that it is not related to uNav, because almost the same thing happens with Pure Maps.
If I don't specify the location at the beginning and simply enter a destination and then specify the location, it works and I can start the navigation.
Unfortunately, the navigation suddenly freezes after a certain time.

zubozrout

Happens to Morph as well: https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/morph-browser/-/issues/554 ... So this sounds like some system issue then.

CiberSheep

@saveurlinux I also think so... I think it is realated to the GPS itself

https://github.com/costales/unav/issues/56#issuecomment-1741820194

TheBird

Had the same only can it trigger on another way.

enable gps
start Unav
search destination and confirm
then hit the button to begin the route so gps will start searching
cancel by searching new destination and confirm
hit the start button and the freezes

Indeed looks likesomethingbwith gps

A Former User

hello, is there any news, thank you and greetings

kristatos

The last days I've used the navigation a lot for a motorcycle tour and it was very annoying when the navigation freezes.
I've played around with noble on my spare phone and it seems, that this bug is present there as well
So hopefully we'll get this fixed in near future, to have a reliable working navigation again (as we had in 16.04).
Is there anything we can provide to the devs @costales @rinigus or help in any other way?

CiberSheep

@kristatos said in 20.04 Focal: uNav freezes with GPS enabled:

Is there anything we can provide

This is a place to start, maybe: https://github.com/costales/unav/issues/56#issuecomment-1741820194

kristatos

@CiberSheep I think that's also the wrong place, because it must be a problem in the location-daemon/gps-daemon.
I've tested it again with todays build of noble and it's the same behavior like under focal: unav, puremaps and even morph are freezing once you have searched your position and want to do something with it (e.g. calculate a route from the actual position). Maybe @peat_psuwit does have an idea or can even take a look at it?

Vlad Nirky

@kristatos

I can't run osm scout driver on noble. So are map provided to apps?
Via GPS Toolkit, i can see GPS is working well.

CiberSheep

@kristatos said in 20.04 Focal: uNav freezes with GPS enabled:

the wrong place

the link to the parent project is at the end of the issue. Sorry about that

kristatos

@CiberSheep @TheBird @zubozrout Can you please mention on which device these freezes happen to you? I've opened a bugreport but it seems to work on a Fairphone 4 (qualcom device...).
For me these freezes are happening on Vollaphone and Vollaphone22 running Focal and Noble.

wally

Using Oneplus Nord N10, 20.04 OTA 7:
TL;DR - uNav freezes after location is acquired, Morph freezes upon clicking Allow in Permission Request for location, PureMaps will crash after location acquired the first time, then works well upon re-opening.

-uNav freezes reliably with GPS, seemingly after GPS position is acquired. It will freeze with "Waiting for GPS" still visible, but not immediately, I can still shift from light to dark mode for example, until suddenly I can't click anything in the app.

-Morph freezes reliably after enabling location on navigation websites (tried google maps and waze.) Specifically, I select "Your Location", Morph brings up the UT Permission Request to share location, I click Allow, the website says "Waze/GoogleMaps does not have permission to use your location", I repeat the process, and Morph freezes if I click Allow, with Permission Request still visible.

-in PureMaps' Navigation menu if I use Current Position and wait for the wheel to stop scrolling (position acquired), then click to enter a destination, the app will crash, not freeze. It just closes itself. But then if I re-open the app, I can do the same and it doesn't crash and successfully navigates. I've navigated long distances using PureMaps. I think it may have crashed unexpectedly during navigation once or twice, but generally it works for me. I can't recall it ever freezing.

Not sure why my experience is different, but I've spent some time testing and this all seems to happens consistently for me.

PhAndersson

@kristatos I see this freeze on a Google Pixel 3A as well (UT 20.04 OTA-8 fully up-to-date), at least in uNav -- I haven't tried the other apps yet.

CiberSheep

@kristatos said in 20.04 Focal: uNav freezes with GPS enabled:

@CiberSheep @TheBird @zubozrout Can you please mention on which device these freezes happen to you?

Currently I'm on a POCO (but I experienced freezes since Focal.

On uNav

With gps, wifi, mobile network all on
Tap on the map
Start navigation
Cancel navigation

Now UI is freezed

Switch off GPS
Switch on GPS
GPS icon doesn't appear on the indicators bar

If you open again uNav and tap on a location and try to navigate, UI will freeze until GPS fails to turn on and switches off.
With this I mean, if you turn on GPS from the indicator, still doesn't appear on indicators bar but GPS switch is on. GPS fails. GPS switch turns off. uNav UI unfreezes.