Unable to restore session on every startup

[johannes-krude]

Steps to reproduce

1. Login into Element Desktop
2. Close Element Desktop
3. Start Element Desktop
4. "Unable to restore session" appears
5. Click "Clear Storage and Sign out"
6. Signing in waits forever, but never succeeds
7. rm -r .config/Element to get Element Desktop into a usable state
8. Now, login into Element Desktop succeds

Additionally, Element Desktop fails to recover encryption keys from server key backup, but successfully imports encryption keys from a file which are saved in element-web from firefox.

Operating system

Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Application version

1.11.59

How did you install the app?

deb https://packages.element.io/debian/ default main

Homeserver

comsys.rwth-aachen.de

Will you send logs?

Yes

[johannes-krude]

With 1.11.63, element-desktop now shows a different error message on startup:

Missing session data
Some session data, including encrypted message keys, is missing. Sign out and sign in to fix this, restoring keys from backup.

Your browser likely removed this data when running low on disk space. To help us prevent this in future, please send us logs.