Black window when starting in a Gnome on Wayland session

[jakobkmar]

Steps to reproduce

Hardware specs:

The problem only appears on Wayland.

Outcome

What did you expect?

The application should be visible.

What happened instead?

Only a black window is visible.

Logs

Logs when starting element

➜  flatpak run im.riot.Riot
[2 preload-host-spawn-strategy] Running: /app/bin/zypak-helper child - /app/Element/element-desktop --type=zygote
/home/jakob/.var/app/im.riot.Riot/config/Element exists: yes
/home/jakob/.var/app/im.riot.Riot/config/Riot exists: no
Gtk-Message: 15:25:39.487: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 15:25:39.488: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 15:25:39.488: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 15:25:39.488: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
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
Could not fetch translation json for locale: 'en-us' Error: Cannot find module './i18n/strings/en-us.json'
Require stack:
- /app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js
- /app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/tray.js
- /app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js
- 
    at Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:15)
    at Function.n._resolveFilename (electron/js2c/browser_init.js:257:1128)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:732:27)
    at Function.f._load (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:12913)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
    at AppLocalization.fetchTranslationJson (/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:76:20)
    at /app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:89:39
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at AppLocalization.setAppLocale (/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:88:17) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js',
    '/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/tray.js',
    '/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js',
    undefined
  ]
}
Resetting the UI components after locale change
Failed to establish dbus connectionResetting the UI components after locale change
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
Changing application language to en-us
Fetching translation json for locale: en-us
Could not fetch translation json for locale: 'en-us' Error: Cannot find module './i18n/strings/en-us.json'
Require stack:
- /app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js
- /app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/tray.js
- /app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js
- 
    at Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:15)
    at Function.n._resolveFilename (electron/js2c/browser_init.js:257:1128)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:732:27)
    at Function.f._load (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:12913)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
    at AppLocalization.fetchTranslationJson (/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:76:20)
    at /app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:89:39
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at AppLocalization.setAppLocale (/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:88:17) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js',
    '/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/tray.js',
    '/app/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js',
    undefined
  ]
}
Resetting the UI components after locale change

Operating system

Fedora Linux 35 (Workstation Edition)

Application version

Element version 1.9.4

How did you install the app?

I tried both dnf and flatpak from Flathub.

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

[SimonBrandner]

It seems you're not the only one to have come across this bug, as it's been reported previously. I'm going to close this issue now so we can focus on the older issue. Please watch, vote or comment on that issue. Could you also please copy over the logs there? Thank you

Duplicate of #15486

[jakobkmar]

Yes I can do that, but isn't this right here a different issue? The problem only appears on Wayland, while starting the same application on the same system in an XOrg session works perfectly fine.

[SimonBrandner]

Ah, sorry, I misread the issue, seems different

[SimonBrandner]

@jakobkmar, does this happen with other Electron apps (Discord, Slack...)?

[jakobkmar]

No, Discord and Spotify work fine.

[jakobkmar]

does this happen with other Electron apps (Discord, Slack...)?

while some electron apps don't have this issue (previous message), there are other electron with this issue, e.g. GitHub Desktop

[novocaine]

Are you passing the extra flags noted in #18902 ?

[jakobkmar]

No, but I did try it now and the result is that the window is invisible.

[novocaine]

Let's track this as a duplicate of #19743

[jakobkmar]

Let's track this as a duplicate of #19743

Seems like this link is incorrect, what is the correct one?

[novocaine]

Let's track this as a duplicate of #19743

Seems like this link is incorrect, what is the correct one?

Sorry, should be element-hq/element-desktop#728