net-im/element-desktop: unable to restore session if keytar is not installed

[aschaap]

Thank you for this great set of ebuilds.

Previously, I could quit and reopen element-desktop and remain logged in; when it stopped doing this (perhaps to lack of disk space), I cleared ~/.config/Element (and ~/.config/Riot), but sessions remained unable to persist across restarts. Launching from the CLI showed that both keytar and seshat were missing; installing keytar via npm i -g keytar seems to have fixed my issue. I have not customized USE flags for this package, so native-modules and build-online remain off.

An easy solution would be to add a note in pkg_postinst() saying to run npm i -g keytar, if this is the best way to solve this (is it?). Is this expected behaviour? Are we supposed enable the USE flags mentioned above instead?

[PF4Public]

By any chance, have you noticed at which version this started to occur?

[aschaap]

Thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately not; I don't have an exact version number, but it's at least a few versions ago at this point; I've been trying to fix this for a few weeks now and finally invested some time.

[PF4Public]

This does look similar to your issue: element-hq/element-desktop#1853

Could you mention there that it works with keytar manually installed?

[aschaap]

Done, thank you for finding that bug.

[stikonas]

Yeah, I've observed this too. Workaround is to use online build.

[stikonas]

Strictly speaking we need rust parts, not online build. But I guess current ebuild only builds rust parts in online mode.

[PF4Public]

current ebuild only builds rust parts in online mode

I tried making rust parts to build offline, but gave up as it is a packaging nightmare (to be honest, it even dwarfs yarn in that regard). Although there exists cargo.eclass, which might be a solution.