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• Component used: androidx.work:*
• Version used: 2.7.1
• Devices/Android versions reproduced on: Android 12

We are seeing users spiking a crash related to long-running workers. Sometimes the internal foreground service will cause the ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException. This is now one of our top crashes and please take a look, thanks.

Stacktrace

[Events]
android.app.ForegroundServiceDidNotStartInTimeException: Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground(): ServiceRecord{ad6c1b8 u0 [OUR_APPLICATION_ID]/androidx.work.impl.foreground.SystemForegroundService}
	at android.app.ActivityThread.throwRemoteServiceException(ActivityThread.java:2152)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2900(ActivityThread.java:315)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2381)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:226)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:313)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8751)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:571)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1135)

Code snippet of setting up long-running

try {
    Log.i(getTag(), "Set foreground for worker $id")
    setForeground(ForegroundInfo(notificationId, notification))
} catch (e: Exception) {
    Log.e(getTag(), "Failed to set foreground.", e)
    ...
}