Upgrade RN from 0.74.2 -> 0.75.4: "Application violated contract..."

[wmonecke]

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Things I’ve done to figure out my issue

• I used upgrade-helper to do my upgrade.

Upgrading version

0.75.4

Description

When upgrading from 0.74.2 to 0.75.4, the app builds. However, when running it stops at the ios/[project]/main.m file.
Specifically at the UIApplicationMain line with the error: Thread 1: signal SIGABRT.

If I look into UIApplicationMain I see the error:
"Application violated contract by causing UIApplicationMain() to return. This incident will be reported."

The error is a bit non-verbose. I have cleaned pods and done the upgrade twice at this point.

Any ideas?

Reproducible demo

Upgrade from 0.74.2 to 0.75.4

[serhiy-z-israelit-pro]

also updated from react-native 0.73.8 to 0.75.4, and finished up getting this error

[wmonecke]

@serhiy-z-israelit-pro yeah, this error is a bit vague. Not sure what ill do next. It will probably be a manual upgrade by copypasting it into a new RN project.

[g-siedlecki]

I also encountered this issue while trying to upgrade from 0.74.1 to 0.75.4.

My app finally launched after commenting out the following line from AppDelegate.mm:
RCTBridge *bridge = [[RCTBridge alloc] initWithDelegate:self launchOptions:launchOptions];

Looks like this call should've been removed back in 0.71.0, but for some reason I left it out.