Don't use Electron 19.0.0 as it is broken on Buster/Bionic and older GLIBC distros

[theofficialgman]

The problem

desktop/package.json

Line 160 in 6c9aa22

"electron": "19.0.0",

desktop/yarn.lock

Lines 3887 to 3894 in c506ab2

	[email protected]:
	version "19.0.0"
	resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz#f6b742b708ec118676ba3b38d0f3712d8f0311cf"
	integrity sha512-VXwqLQxuIUr0SI8vOYDj5OLPwtKa/trn5DVKd/BFGT/U/IerfVoSZuydGLOjSL5yJlckfmKQpiq+8PW4gI8hXA==
	dependencies:
	"@electron/get" "^1.14.1"
	"@types/node" "^16.11.26"
	extract-zip "^1.0.3"

refer to my blacklist of bad electron versions Botspot/pi-apps#1930

you need to upgrade to 19.0.5+ for this to be fixed.

In general the original release of electron for a specific version is always terrible, never use it until it is many releases in. I realize this version bump from 17.X to 19.0.0 came from upstream but it is just something that you need to check especially on linux.

Release version

3.1.1-linux1

Operating system

Bionic/Buster

Steps to reproduce the behavior

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[shiftkey]

you need to upgrade to 19.0.5+ for this to be fixed.

While I wait to queue this up, 3.0.7 is the latest release on Electron 17 for folks who encounter this issue.

[theofficialgman]

@shiftkey I should have been more specific.
19.0.0-19.0.4 were only broken on arm64 (as Google disabled the glibc reversion script on arm64 only due to issues with ChromeOS arm64).
You aren't in need of a release since you don't build from that but regardless it would be good to change in the repo.

[shiftkey]

Closing this out as 3.1.5-linux2 has the last v19 release (development is currently on v22 so the next release will jump to that).