Search broken on Element desktop app with Ubuntu 22.04

[ASoTNetworks]

Steps to reproduce

1. Open an encrypted room
2. Try searching messages
3. Error saying Use the Desktop app to search encrypted messages is displayed.

In the Security & Privacy settings it says:

Outcome

What did you expect?

Display encrypted messages results.

What happened instead?

Display an error saying to use the desktop client instead.

This started happening since version 1.10.12

Operating system

Ubuntu 22.04

Application version

Element version: 1.10.13, Olm version: 3.2.8

How did you install the app?

From https://element.io/get-started#linux-details

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

[t3chguy]

Please send logs, they are very important to debug issues like this.

[ASoTNetworks]

Is there anything I should be looking for in the logs? There are too many information in it that I don't want to share the full log.

[t3chguy]

Is there anything I should be looking for in the logs?

Things relating to indexing, but if you're unable to figure out the cause and unwilling to share logs then this issue may not have sufficient information to remain open

[ASoTNetworks]

Here is the startup section of Element desktop. I see it says EventIndex: Event indexing isn't installed for the platform, not initializing. so is it not built with matrix-seshat?

2022-05-25T21:30:08.288Z I Initialised rageshake.
2022-05-25T21:30:08.288Z I To fix line numbers in Chrome: Meatball menu � Settings � Ignore list � Add /rageshake\.js$
2022-05-25T21:30:08.290Z I Using Electron platform
2022-05-25T21:30:08.294Z I Configuring rageshake persistence...
2022-05-25T21:30:08.310Z I Using WebAssembly Olm
2022-05-25T21:30:08.321Z I set language to en
2022-05-25T21:30:08.511Z I Application is running in production mode
2022-05-25T21:30:08.511Z I Vector starting at vector://vector/webapp/
2022-05-25T21:30:08.511Z I Verifying homeserver configuration
2022-05-25T21:30:08.511Z I Config uses a default_server_name - doing .well-known lookup
2022-05-25T21:30:08.511Z W DEPRECATED CONFIG OPTION: In the future, default_server_name will not be accepted. Please use default_server_config instead.
2022-05-25T21:30:08.857Z I Using homeserver config: {"hsUrl":"https://matrix-client.matrix.org","hsName":"matrix.org","hsNameIsDifferent":true,"isUrl":"https://vector.im","isDefault":true,"isNameResolvable":true,"warning":null}
2022-05-25T21:30:08.858Z I Updating SdkConfig with validated discovery information
2022-05-25T21:30:08.913Z I Got pickle key
2022-05-25T21:30:08.915Z I Restoring session for @user:matrix-server.com
2022-05-25T21:30:08.917Z I StorageManager: Checking storage consistency
2022-05-25T21:30:08.917Z I StorageManager: Local storage supported? true
2022-05-25T21:30:08.917Z I StorageManager: IndexedDB supported? true
2022-05-25T21:30:08.917Z I StorageManager: Local storage contains data? true
2022-05-25T21:30:08.917Z I StorageManager: Crypto initialised? true
2022-05-25T21:30:08.917Z I StorageManager: Sync store using IndexedDB contains data? true
2022-05-25T21:30:08.918Z I StorageManager: Crypto store using IndexedDB contains data? true
2022-05-25T21:30:08.918Z I StorageManager: Storage consistency checks passed
2022-05-25T21:30:08.929Z I Session persisted for @user:matrix-server.com
2022-05-25T21:30:08.929Z I Lifecycle: Starting MatrixClient
2022-05-25T21:30:08.936Z I EventIndex: Event indexing isn't installed for the platform, not initializing.
2022-05-25T21:30:08.936Z I IndexedDBStore.startup: connecting to backend
2022-05-25T21:30:08.936Z I MatrixClientPeg: waiting for MatrixClient store to initialise
2022-05-25T21:30:08.995Z I StorageManager: Persistent? true
2022-05-25T21:30:09.016Z I IndexedDB worker is ready
2022-05-25T21:30:09.200Z I IndexedDBStore.startup: loading presence events
2022-05-25T21:30:09.214Z I IndexedDBStore.startup: processing presence events
2022-05-25T21:30:09.221Z I Crypto: Starting up crypto store...
2022-05-25T21:30:09.221Z I connecting to indexeddb matrix-js-sdk:crypto
2022-05-25T21:30:09.222Z I connected to indexeddb matrix-js-sdk:crypto
2022-05-25T21:30:09.223Z I Crypto: initialising roomlist...
2022-05-25T21:30:09.227Z I Crypto: initialising crypto object...
2022-05-25T21:30:09.227Z I Crypto: initialising Olm...
2022-05-25T21:30:09.227Z I Crypto: initialising Olm device...
2022-05-25T21:30:09.229Z I Crypto: loading device list...
2022-05-25T21:30:09.232Z I Crypto: fetching own devices...
2022-05-25T21:30:09.232Z I Loaded cross-signing public keys from crypto store
2022-05-25T21:30:09.233Z I Crypto: checking for key backup...
2022-05-25T21:30:09.233Z I Checking key backup status...
2022-05-25T21:30:09.276Z I MatrixClientPeg: really starting MatrixClient

On another machine that I haven't update Element have this in the log:

Element version: 1.10.9
Olm version: 3.2.8

2022-05-25T21:31:48.753Z I EventIndex: Successfully initialized the event index
2022-05-25T21:31:48.756Z I EventIndex: Loaded checkpoints []`

[t3chguy]

I can reproduce

[t3chguy]

As a workaround you could manually install libssl1.1 as required by Seshat to operate

https://askubuntu.com/a/1403961

[t3chguy]

Regressed by element-hq/element-desktop#334