System_server crashes leading to continious restarts

Maximus

Hi All,
This morning my Pixel 8 got caught up in a boot loop. Initial boot seemed normal, but immediately loading to the lock screen it would loop back to the Graphene logo and would be stuck doing that. It did power off after a while and wouldn't power back on if I held the power button for a couple seconds like normal. I would have to hold it for at least 20 seconds or so. At the lock screen I could see a message "System Server Crashed" but couldn't do anything before it would reboot. I was able to load into Safe Mode and it looks like an update went through as several apps were optimized; it seems to be stable. I also installed a new app (FamCal) yesterday as well.

I am tech savvy, but not so much with phones. I can upload the crash log, just would need some guidance on how to do that. Thanks for the help!

Maximus

Nevermind. Had i clicked on the error message before I would've seen how to do it. Here is the log:

type: crash

SystemUptimeMs: 60024
Process: system_server
Timestamp: 2025-06-10 06:54:34.619-0400
Build: google/shiba/shiba:15/BP1A.250505.005.B1/2025052800:user/release-keys
Crash-Handler: com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$KillApplicationHandler
Loading-Progress: 1.0
Dropped-Count: 0

android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: File res/layout/alert_dialog_material.xml from xml type layout resource ID #0x1090032
at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.loadXmlResourceParser(ResourcesImpl.java:1366)
at android.content.res.Resources.loadXmlResourceParser(Resources.java:2606)
at android.content.res.Resources.loadXmlResourceParser(Resources.java:2582)
at android.content.res.Resources.getLayout(Resources.java:1295)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:460)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:413)
at com.android.internal.policy.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:537)
at com.android.internal.app.AlertController.installContent(AlertController.java:305)
at android.app.AlertDialog.onCreate(AlertDialog.java:439)
at android.app.ProgressDialog.onCreate(ProgressDialog.java:272)
at android.app.Dialog.dispatchOnCreate(Dialog.java:436)
at android.app.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:325)
at com.android.server.power.ShutdownThread.showShutdownDialog(ShutdownThread.java:369)
at com.android.server.power.ShutdownThread.beginShutdownSequence(ShutdownThread.java:407)
at com.android.server.power.ShutdownThread.shutdownInner(ShutdownThread.java:223)
at com.android.server.power.ShutdownThread.reboot(ShutdownThread.java:263)
at com.android.server.power.PowerManagerService$2.run(PowerManagerService.java:4057)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:991)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:85)
at com.android.server.ServiceThread.run(ServiceThread.java:49)
at com.android.server.UiThread.run(UiThread.java:45)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: res/layout/alert_dialog_material.xml
at android.content.res.AssetManager.nativeOpenXmlAsset(Native Method)
at android.content.res.AssetManager.openXmlBlockAsset(AssetManager.java:1258)
at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.loadXmlResourceParser(ResourcesImpl.java:1350)
... 23 more