Android: java.lang.NullPointerException on android.view.GLES20RecordingCanvas.drawBitmap

We can see the following crash happens quite often, only on android 4.0.3 and 4.0.4 sites The stack trace does not include a frame of our code, its the only android, so we have trouble understanding what is causing it or how it is get around.

java.lang.NullPointerException
       at android.view.GLES20RecordingCanvas.drawBitmap(GLES20RecordingCanvas.java:118)
       at android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable.draw(BitmapDrawable.java:393)
       at android.widget.ImageView.onDraw(ImageView.java:892)
       at android.view.View.draw(View.java:11053)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:2887)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2489)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:2885)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2489)
       at android.view.View.draw(View.java:11056)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.drawChild(ViewGroup.java:2887)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchDraw(ViewGroup.java:2489)
       at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10490)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchGetDisplayList(ViewGroup.java:2597)
       at android.view.View.getDisplayList(View.java:10455)
       at android.view.HardwareRenderer$GlRenderer.draw(HardwareRenderer.java:851)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl.draw(ViewRootImpl.java:1932)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1656)
       at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2470)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4499)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Method.java)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:788)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:555)
       at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(NativeStart.java)