Recording fails with "We could not allocate necessary AV objects to perform the recording" #1
Description
I tried to use snaptake to record a video of my app. Generating the recordingFlag.txt works, but starting to record the video does not.
The error is the following when running IO.popen("xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo '#{path}'") inside the Listen.to-block:
Couldn't create an asset writer for writing video frames: allocationErrorError starting video recorder: Error Domain=simctl.SimulatorError Code=2 "We could not allocate necessary AV objects to perform the recording.".
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=simctl.SimulatorError, code=2):
We could not allocate necessary AV objects to perform the recording.
If I remove Listen.to and just manually start recording the same way within fastlane it works. Is that a permission problem because of different processes? Did you ever stumbled across this?
I found this when researching the problem: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/131926 and https://twitter.com/thesunshinejr/status/1245730408282677255 but it seams no one was able to fix that.
Here is the full output:
[21:06:06]: ▸ UISnapshots
/Users/ChaosCoder/.rbenv/versions/2.7.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/fastlane-2.168.0/credentials_manager/lib/credentials_manager/appfile_config.rb:34: warning: conflicting chdir during another chdir block
/Users/ChaosCoder/.rbenv/versions/2.7.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/fastlane-2.168.0/credentials_manager/lib/credentials_manager/appfile_config.rb:34: warning: conflicting chdir during another chdir block
[21:06:15]: Recording video now in screenshots/de-DE/iPhone 12 Pro-Preview.mp4
/Users/ChaosCoder/.rbenv/versions/2.7.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/fastlane-2.168.0/credentials_manager/lib/credentials_manager/appfile_config.rb:34: warning: conflicting chdir during another chdir block
/Users/ChaosCoder/.rbenv/versions/2.7.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/fastlane-2.168.0/credentials_manager/lib/credentials_manager/appfile_config.rb:34: warning: conflicting chdir during another chdir block
Couldn't create an asset writer for writing video frames: allocationErrorError starting video recorder: Error Domain=simctl.SimulatorError Code=2 "We could not allocate necessary AV objects to perform the recording.".
An error was encountered processing the command (domain=simctl.SimulatorError, code=2):
We could not allocate necessary AV objects to perform the recording.
[21:06:21]: ▸ ✓ testPreview (15.640 seconds)
/Users/ChaosCoder/.rbenv/versions/2.7.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/fastlane-2.168.0/credentials_manager/lib/credentials_manager/appfile_config.rb:34: warning: conflicting chdir during another chdir block
[21:06:21]: ▸ Executed 1 test, with 0 failures (0 unexpected) in 15.640 (15.643) seconds
[21:06:21]: ▸
/Users/ChaosCoder/.rbenv/versions/2.7.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/fastlane-2.168.0/credentials_manager/lib/credentials_manager/appfile_config.rb:34: warning: conflicting chdir during another chdir block
[21:06:21]: Video recorded in screenshots/de-DE/iPhone 12 Pro-Preview.mp4
/Users/ChaosCoder/.rbenv/versions/2.7.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/fastlane-2.168.0/credentials_manager/lib/credentials_manager/appfile_config.rb:34: warning: conflicting chdir during another chdir block
/Users/ChaosCoder/.rbenv/versions/2.7.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/fastlane-2.168.0/credentials_manager/lib/credentials_manager/appfile_config.rb:34: warning: conflicting chdir during another chdir block
[21:06:22]: ▸ 2020-11-28 21:06:22.147 xcodebuild[14107:10155506] [MT] IDETestOperationsObserverDebug: 21.744 elapsed -- Testing started completed.
[21:06:22]: ▸ 2020-11-28 21:06:22.148 xcodebuild[14107:10155506] [MT] IDETestOperationsObserverDebug: 0.000 sec, +0.000 sec -- start
[21:06:22]: ▸ 2020-11-28 21:06:22.148 xcodebuild[14107:10155506] [MT] IDETestOperationsObserverDebug: 21.744 sec, +21.744 sec -- end
[21:06:23]: ▸ Test Succeeded
(I get a lot of chdir-warnings, but these are not the problem, I think.)