Unable to get session lock

[adoeppner]

Steps to reproduce

1. I open the element-client on the system
2. I get a message Element is open in another window. Click "Fortfahren" to use Element here and disconnect the other windows. There are actually no other windows, the started process is the only running element process.

3. Then I click on continue and get an forever spinner. In the devtools I see a message like this:

getSessionLock[<<uuid>>] Last ping (from <<uuid>>) was -16014021ms ago, waiting

The negative milliseconds seem strange. I reinstalled the app to the newest version, restarted my system once or twice and killed all element-desktop processes by hand. Nothing seems to resolve the issue. In the webbrowser on the same machine it works without any problems.

When starting the process over the console I get some stack traces regarding the language.

➜  ~ element-desktop
/home/aaron/.config/Element exists: yes
/home/aaron/.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 de
Fetching translation json for locale: de
Could not fetch translation json for locale: 'de' Error: Cannot find module './i18n/strings/de.json'
Require stack:
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/tray.js
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/settings.js
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/ipc.js
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js
- 
    at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1084:15
    at Function._resolveFilename (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:116646)
    at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:929:27
    at Function._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:13327)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1150:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:121:18)
    at AppLocalization.fetchTranslationJson (/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:86:20)
    at /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:99:39
    at Array.filter (<anonymous>)
    at AppLocalization.setAppLocale (/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:98:39) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js',
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/tray.js',
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/settings.js',
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/ipc.js',
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js',
    undefined
  ]
}
Resetting the UI components after locale change
Resetting the UI components after locale change
Changing application language to de
Fetching translation json for locale: de
Could not fetch translation json for locale: 'de' Error: Cannot find module './i18n/strings/de.json'
Require stack:
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/tray.js
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/settings.js
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/ipc.js
- /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js
- 
    at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1084:15
    at Function._resolveFilename (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:116646)
    at node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:929:27
    at Function._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:2:13327)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1150:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:121:18)
    at AppLocalization.fetchTranslationJson (/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:86:20)
    at /opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:99:39
    at Array.filter (<anonymous>)
    at AppLocalization.setAppLocale (/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js:98:39) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/language-helper.js',
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/tray.js',
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/settings.js',
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/ipc.js',
    '/opt/Element/resources/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js',
    undefined
  ]
}
Resetting the UI components after locale change

Outcome

What did you expect?

A login into the element account.

What happened instead?

A forever spinner.

Operating system

Ubuntu

Application version

1.11.50 (from apt install)

How did you install the app?

https://element.io/download

Homeserver

non-public homeserver

Will you send logs?

No

[adoeppner]

Resolved itself somehow.