Element Desktop is stuck with loading spinner after upgrade

[cdauth]

Steps to reproduce

I have recently upgraded to Element Desktop 1.11.89. Before I was running a version that was a few months old, but I don’t know which one exactly.

Since the upgrade, when I start Element, I am stuck with a loading spinner and a “Logout” link underneath. Trying to exit Element by pressing Ctrl+Q shows a confirmation dialog, but when I click “Close Element”, nothing happens. Right-clicking the icon the task bar and pressing “Quit” there does close the app.

I cannot provide any logs, since it seems like Element Desktop is hiding the logs from the user. When I run the app from a terminal, it forks and then quits without any useful output. I was not able to find any documentation how to access the log.

I can access my Matrix account through Element Web, so I assume that the problem is not on the server side.

Outcome

Element Desktop is stuck with the loading spinner.

Operating system

Arch Linux

Application version

1.11.89

How did you install the app?

Pacman

Homeserver

rankenste.in (running the latest matrixdotorg/synapse docker image)

Will you send logs?

No

[t3chguy]

The arch package isn't maintained by us. You'd need to seek help from it's maintainer. Our Linux packages don't fork or hide logs

[cdauth]

Ah, looks like I made a mistake. Probably I already had element-desktop running when I started it. When I run the command and the app is not running yet, it does not fork.

This is the log output, although I doubt this is helpful:

/home/cdauth/.config/Element exists: yes
/home/cdauth/.config/Riot exists: no
No update_base_url is defined: auto update is disabled
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

[eMPee584]

ah wow, thanks to this I tried downgrading to element-desktop 1.11.66 from 1.11.89 and it fixed the spinner issue for me on debian unstable 😎