'Waiting for this message'

[wrjlewis]

Steps to reproduce

Messages with the text 'Waiting for this message' appear instead of the actual message.

When it happens it affects all subsequent messages until you sign out and sign in again.

Occurring maybe once or twice a week to me (will rageshake when I next see it and attach to this issue).

Other chat clients are unaffected, for example the same message appears ok in Element or Fluffychat.

There have been a couple of similar reports in #element-x-ios:matrix.org, eg here.

Outcome

What did you expect?

Messages to appear successfully

What happened instead?

All messages from an individual appear as 'Waiting for this message', from the point of the bug showing up.

Your phone model

iPhone 12 pro

Operating system version

17.1.2

Application version

1.4.3

Homeserver

Synapse 1.98 @ wi11.co.uk

Will you send logs?

Yes

[wrjlewis]

https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios-rageshakes/issues/1217

[stefanceriu]

There's thousands of errors in those logs, ranging from Socket is not connected to IncompleteMessage, Operation timed out and 404 Event not found.
I would say it's not surprising that something broke but what is really surprising is that it needs a full logout for it to start working again. We'll need someone from the crypto team to have a look at this I guess.

[wrjlewis]

There's thousands of errors in those logs, ranging from Socket is not connected to IncompleteMessage, Operation timed out and 404 Event not found. I would say it's not surprising that something broke but what is really surprising is that it needs a full logout for it to start working again. We'll need someone from the crypto team to have a look at this I guess.

Oh dear..
Despite my best efforts I do have a lot of issues with federation spikes on my homeserver, causing freezes/instability across my network. Perhaps that explains all the network related errors you've mentioned

[pr0ton11]

I have the same issues, but no error messages from logs both the server and sliding sync proxy. Are the logs part of the element client and should I rage-shake whenever it happens?

[wrjlewis]

I haven't seen this problem for the last couple of weeks now. Update: still happening occasionally