segfault on wayland

[532910]

Steps to reproduce

No Nightly as in #1026
No mixed-scaled dual monitor as in #873

I dist-upgarded debian sid about a week ago and element segfaults on start now.
I tried to investigate this issue with strace and packages downgrade, but without success ):

Outcome

% element-desktop --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland
/home/sergio/.config/Element exists: yes
/home/sergio/.config/Riot exists: no
Starting auto update with base URL: https://packages.element.io/desktop/update/
Auto update not supported on this platform
Fetching translation json for locale: en_EN
Changing application language to en
Fetching translation json for locale: en
Resetting the UI components after locale change
Resetting the UI components after locale change
Changing application language to en
Fetching translation json for locale: en
Resetting the UI components after locale change
zsh: segmentation fault  element-desktop --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

Operating system

debian sid

Application version

1.11.34

How did you install the app?

https://packages.element.io/debian

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

Yes

[pm4rcin]

Which DE are you using? Here's some workarounds #1026 (comment)

[532910]

sway

with for_window [app_id="Element"] floating enable got blank window with lots of GL errors on console

[532910]

so this is not a workaround

jitsi-meet-electron 2023.5.3 works fine

[pm4rcin]

@532910 could you try flatpak version?

[532910]

flatpak -- no way

[53c70r]

@532910 could you try flatpak version?

Tested on flatpak, also broken.

[53c70r]

Which DE are you using? Here's some workarounds #1026 (comment)

Can confirm, this "fixes" the problem in flatpak and snap.

[532910]

The workaround "for_window [app_id="Element"] floating enable" does not work for me

[twouters]

i just delete the window state before launching element-desktop with rm -f ~/.config/Element/window-state.json, it prevents crashes during startup on my system.

[532910]

removing window-state.json changes nothing for me:

% rm ~/.config/Element/window-state.json 
% element-desktop --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform-hint=auto
/home/sergio/.config/Element exists: yes
/home/sergio/.config/Riot exists: no
Starting auto update with base URL: https://packages.element.io/desktop/update/
Auto update not supported on this platform
Fetching translation json for locale: en_EN
Changing application language to en-us
Fetching translation json for locale: en-us
Resetting the UI components after locale change
Resetting the UI components after locale change
[304291:0906/125238.357919:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(274)] Gtk: gtk_widget_get_scale_factor: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
Changing application language to en-us
Fetching translation json for locale: en-us
Resetting the UI components after locale change
zsh: segmentation fault  element-desktop --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform-hint=auto

[pm4rcin]

Tested today and crashes are gone. Since Element updated electron to 26 it's working. I had the same problem with Tutanota flatpak.

[532910]

1.11.42 works fine