[Keycard support] the "Backup data locally" feature doesn't work for Status Legacy app set up with Keycard

[sunleos]

Bug Report

Steps to reproduce

pre-requisites: have your Status profile set up with Keycard

1. Go to Settings >> Syncing and Backup >> Backup
2. Click on the "Backup data locally" button

Expected behavior

The app creates your local backup file.

Actual behavior

The app crashes.

Additional Information

• Status version: 2.34.4
• Operating System: Android and iOS

[jakubgs]

I would recommend doing an APK-only release for this edge case. Trying to get a signed iOS release into App Store would be a total nightmare and is not worth the necessary hundreds of engineer hours to make it happen.

Most of our users use Android, and we use our own cert to sign Google Play Store releases, so people would be able to install such a release on top of the Play Store one if they need a fix for this edge case issue.

[siddarthkay]

was able to reproduce the crash and it crashes with :

2026-03-19 23:15:46.761 16932-17054 ReactNativeJS           im.status.ethereum                   D  2026-03-19T17:45:46.757Z DEBUG [native-module.core:381] - [native-module] perform-local-backup
2026-03-19 23:15:46.762 16932-17055 StatusModule            im.status.ethereum                   D  performLocalBackup
2026-03-19 23:15:46.762 16932-17055 StatusModule            im.status.ethereum                   D  Setting backup path: /data/user/0/im.status.ethereum/files/backups
2026-03-19 23:15:46.766 16932-17055 StatusModule            im.status.ethereum                   D  Set backup path result: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":null}
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [recovered]
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x7146544240]
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  goroutine 519 [running, locked to thread]:
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  github.com/status-im/status-go/logutils/callog.Recover(0x4000b37800)
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	github.com/status-im/status-go/logutils/callog/status_request_log.go:176 +0x1a4
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  panic({0x7146a0ed00?, 0x71485f5b20?})
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	runtime/panic.go:770 +0x124
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  github.com/status-im/status-go/node/backup.(*Controller).PerformBackup(0x0?)
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	github.com/status-im/status-go/node/backup/controller.go:91 +0x30
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  github.com/status-im/status-go/node.(*StatusNode).PerformLocalBackup(0x0?)
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	github.com/status-im/status-go/node/get_status_node.go:309 +0x20
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  github.com/status-im/status-go/mobile.performLocalBackup()
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	github.com/status-im/status-go/mobile/status.go:2434 +0x28
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  reflect.Value.call({0x71468dd3c0?, 0x7146de8410?, 0x0?}, {0x714423be6b, 0x4}, {0x7148708080, 0x0, 0x7144c9932c?})
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	reflect/value.go:596 +0x970
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  reflect.Value.Call({0x71468dd3c0?, 0x7146de8410?, 0x4001437cb8?}, {0x7148708080?, 0x4001437cd8?, 0x7144bc2040?})
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	reflect/value.go:380 +0x94
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  github.com/status-im/status-go/logutils/callog.Call(0x4001437d78?, 0x4000b36580, {0x71468dd3c0, 0x7146de8410}, {0x0, 0x0, 0x0})
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	github.com/status-im/status-go/logutils/callog/status_request_log.go:125 +0x240
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  github.com/status-im/status-go/logutils/callog.CallWithResponse(...)
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	github.com/status-im/status-go/logutils/callog/status_request_log.go:142
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  github.com/status-im/status-go/mobile.callWithResponse({0x71468dd3c0, 0x7146de8410}, {0x0, 0x0, 0x0})
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	github.com/status-im/status-go/mobile/status.go:65 +0x50
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  github.com/status-im/status-go/mobile.PerformLocalBackup(...)
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	github.com/status-im/status-go/mobile/status.go:2450
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  main.proxystatusgo__PerformLocalBackup()
2026-03-19 23:15:46.772 16932-0     Go                      im.status.ethereum                   E  	gobind/go_statusgomain.go:1537 +0x40

[siddarthkay]

Fix is here : status-im/status-go@ba5aadb
I'm trying to build the release APK in our CI

[siddarthkay]

fixed with : da73c2d

[siddarthkay]

Why was this reopened ? Did my fix not work ?

[jakubgs]

@sunleos Yeah, why was this reopened?