ValueError: received does not contain valid XML: Killed

Question

When I try to dump my device or execute Culebra GUI, it appears the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Python27/Scripts/dump", line 4, in import('pkg_resources').run_script('androidviewclient==20.0.0b6', 'dump') File "C:\python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources_init_.py", line 666, in run_script self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns) File "C:\python27\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources_init_.py", line 1462, in run_script exec(code, namespace, namespace) File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\androidviewclient-20.0.0b6-py2.7.egg\EGG-INFO\scripts\dump", line 221, in vc.dump(window=options[WINDOW]) File "C:\Users\FAMIL\Downloads\AndroidViewClient-master\src\com\dtmilano\android\viewclient.py", line 3522, in dump self.setViewsFromUiAutomatorDump(received) File "C:\Users\FAMIL\Downloads\AndroidViewClient-master\src\com\dtmilano\android\viewclient.py", line 3105, in setViewsFromUiAutomatorDump self.__parseTreeFromUiAutomatorDump(received) File "C:\Users\FAMIL\Downloads\AndroidViewClient-master\src\com\dtmilano\android\viewclient.py", line 3322, in __parseTreeFromUiAutomatorDump raise ValueError("received does not contain valid XML: " + receivedXml) ValueError: received does not contain valid XML: Killed

I don't know what problem could it be.

Answer 1

AndroidViewClient/culebra uses uiautomator dump by default to obtain the view tree.

Try

adb shell
$ uiautomator dump

and check if it is working.

There are some cases where it doesn't work.

In such cases, the alternative is to use CulebraTester2-public, which provides an alternative back-end.