peter@ can you triage/check and see if there is anything going on with the photo picker?  Looks like users are having trouble uploading photos on 66.

We have observed this bug affecting users of an app we develop.

In case it is useful, I'll share what I've found in replicating the problem.

65.0.3325.109 is unaffected, but I can replicate the problem in 66.0.3359.106 and 66.0.3359.126.

I've replicated the problem on two test devices we have:

1) KYOCERA DuraForce E6560, running Android 4.4.2.
2) Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505, running Android 5.0.1.

Both devices exhibit the same behaviour, when tapping on a file input with an `accept` attribute value of either `image/*` or `.jpg,.jpeg,.png,.gif` (and obviously any image-only variant like this) the device opens the "Select Images" screen along with a "Unfortunately, Chrome has stopped." dialog. Dismissing the dialog leaves the "Select Images" screen open with a stuck spinner - the user can return to the webpage but is unable to upload a photo. I've attached screenshots of this from both devices.

The workaround we are using at the moment is to leave the `accept` attribute blank for Chrome 66, this shows the user the general file picker which at least allows them to use the Camera or select from existing photos (although it does allow them to upload files of other mime types).

I did replicate the problem in Chrome Beta as well (version 66.0.3359.106) and tapped "Report" on the dialog that appears, so hopefully some sort of useful trace was submitted. I can perform this again if required.

If there is any further information I can provide to help with debugging this, please let me know.

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That's a crash, and both on fairly old versions of Android. Finnur, could you take a look please?

Finnur got the device and we just extracted the following stack trace. Is this a duplicate of  Issue 831953 ?

Stack trace:

E/AndroidRuntime(19791): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): Process: com.android.chrome:decoder_service, PID: 19791
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create service org.chromium.chrome.browser.photo_picker.DecoderService: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean org.chromium.base.CommandLine.hasSwitch(java.lang.String)' on a null object reference
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:3167)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1900(ActivityThread.java:177)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1532)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5951)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1400)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1195)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'boolean org.chromium.base.CommandLine.hasSwitch(java.lang.String)' on a null object reference
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at org.chromium.base.SysUtils.isLowEndDevice(SysUtils.java:35)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at org.chromium.base.library_loader.LegacyLinker.ensureInitializedLocked(LegacyLinker.java:11)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at org.chromium.base.library_loader.LegacyLinker.prepareLibraryLoad(LegacyLinker.java:25)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at org.chromium.base.library_loader.LibraryLoader.loadAlreadyLocked(LibraryLoader.java:62)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at org.chromium.base.library_loader.LibraryLoader.ensureInitialized(LibraryLoader.java:17)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at org.chromium.chrome.browser.photo_picker.DecoderService.onCreate(DecoderService.java:4)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:3157)
E/AndroidRuntime(19791): 	... 9 more

Thanks mh, very helpful writeup.

I was able to obtain a Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505, running Android 5.0.1.

We verified the crash and the stack matches an issue that is already fixed (see Peter's comment).

We also verified the crash does not occur in Canary. Marking as duplicate.

Thanks Finnur, we look forward to Chrome 67 being released so that our users can return to a better user experience when uploading photos.