Element Desktop window turns white after scrolling up in chat history

[ginkel]

Steps to reproduce

1. Open an arbitrary DM chat session
2. Use the mouse wheel to scroll through the history
3. The Element Desktop window freezes for a moment and then turns white:

4. When the Dev Tools window is open during the crash, the following message is displayed:

No errors are displayed on the console. Running Element Desktop under gdb does not yield any core dump when the crash happens.

The error still occurs after starting from scratch with an empty config dir. The error also happens when (forward-)scrolling through the settings.

Outcome

What did you expect?

I can scroll back in the chat's history.

What happened instead?

Element Desktop turns white.

Operating system

Arch Linux w/ X.org and KDE Plasma

Application version

1.9.9

How did you install the app?

Arch package element-desktop

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

Yes

[t3chguy]

This is likely specific to the community maintained Arch package as there haven't been reports on the deb

[ginkel]

Seems this is caused by Electron: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73518

Updating right now. Will report back whether this is fixed.

[t3chguy]

Element is not rated for Electron 16, its dependency is listed as 13.5 on latest stable release https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/blob/master/package.json#L64

electron13 version 13.6.8-1 suffers from the same issue. Downgrading to the previous version (13.6.7-1) also fixes the crash

[ginkel]

Updating electron13 to the version w/o -fstack-clash-protection actually solved the problem. Sorry for the noise...