onDatabaseError: Removing malformed key

[akvadrako]

Every time I start Signal 7.16.0 I get this message:

Database startup error:

Error: Error while decrypting the ciphertext provided to safeStorage.decryptString.
at getSQLKey ([REDACTED]/app/main.js:1244:39)
at initializeSQL ([REDACTED]/app/main.js:1277:11)
at App. ([REDACTED]/app/main.js:1485:20)

And in the logs it says:

{"level":30,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:51.656Z","msg":"getSQLKey: decrypting key"}
{"level":50,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:53.210Z","msg":"onDatabaseError: Removing malformed key"}
{"level":30,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:53.212Z","msg":"config/set: Saving user config to disk"}
{"level":30,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:53.218Z","msg":"config/set: Saved user config to disk"}
{"level":30,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:53.218Z","msg":"getSQLKey: migrating key"}
{"level":30,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:53.218Z","msg":"getSQLKey: updating encrypted key in the config"}
{"level":30,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:53.218Z","msg":"config/set: Saving user config to disk"}
{"level":30,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:53.220Z","msg":"config/set: Saved user config to disk"}
{"level":30,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:53.221Z","msg":"config/set: Saving user config to disk"}
{"level":30,"time":"2024-07-25T17:20:53.222Z","msg":"config/set: Saved user config to disk"}

I have tried deleting my flatpak data directory del ~/.var/app/org.signal.Signal/ but it doesn't help.

[akvadrako]

Perhaps this is related to using the new safeStorage API:

signalapp/Signal-Desktop#6849 (comment)

Seems related: flathub/com.vscodium.codium#239