Repeated setting of .m.rule.is_room_mention push rule

[erikjohnston]

Steps to reproduce

Element web seems to be sending the following requests in a loop:

• PUT /_matrix/client/v3/pushrules/global/override/.m.rule.is_room_mention/enabled
• PUT /_matrix/client/v3/pushrules/global/override/.m.rule.is_room_mention/actions

Outcome

What did you expect?

For it to not repeatedly send those requests

What happened instead?

It gets stuck in a loop?

Operating system

Ubuntu

Browser information

Firefox/123.0

URL for webapp

No response

Application version

54ba087-react-0f251d8a55a6-js-78d05942a35a

Homeserver

matrix.org

Will you send logs?

Yes

[t3chguy]

Likely caused by element-hq/synapse#16987

[AndrewKvalheim]

This is hammering at 2000 requests per minute. What can I do now but just close Element?

Edit: Blocked the runaway request with uBlock Origin

[marvinwankersteen]

I can confirm the problem. My Linux Mint has been updating Element in the background and I've seen it in the server logs that the logs are getting cluttered.

After some debugging I found this issue here.

I downgraded Element desktop from v1.11.62 to v1.11.61 and the problem is gone for now.

https://packages.element.io/debian/pool/main/e/element-desktop/element-desktop_1.11.61_amd64.deb

In the server container logs the following logs is flooding:

2024-03-28 11:59:05,840 - synapse.access.http.10000 - 472 - INFO - GET-9549 - ::ffff:W.X.Y.Z - 10000 - {@user:domain.com} Processed request: 0.023sec/0.002sec (0.006sec, 0.000sec) (0.002sec/0.013sec/3) 7452B 200 "GET /_matrix/client/v3/sync?filter=12&timeout=30000&set_presence=unavailable&since=s7329751_11015327_85_1057534_477490_196832_327302_1784570_0_19 HTTP/1.1" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Element/1.11.62 Chrome/122.0.6261.70 Electron/29.1.0 Safari/537.36" [0 dbevts]
2024-03-28 11:59:05,994 - synapse.access.http.10000 - 472 - INFO - GET-9550 - ::ffff:W.X.Y.Z - 10000 - {@user:domain.com} Processed request: 0.016sec/0.001sec (0.006sec, 0.001sec) (0.001sec/0.008sec/3) 7452B 200 "GET /_matrix/client/v3/sync?filter=12&timeout=30000&set_presence=unavailable&since=s7329751_11015327_85_1057534_477490_196834_327302_1784570_0_19 HTTP/1.1" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Element/1.11.62 Chrome/122.0.6261.70 Electron/29.1.0 Safari/537.36" [0 dbevts]
2024-03-28 11:59:06,146 - synapse.access.http.10000 - 472 - INFO - GET-9552 - ::ffff:W.X.Y.Z - 10000 - {@user:domain.com} Processed request: 0.016sec/0.001sec (0.005sec, 0.000sec) (0.001sec/0.008sec/3) 7452B 200 "GET /_matrix/client/v3/sync?filter=12&timeout=30000&set_presence=unavailable&since=s7329751_11015327_85_1057534_477490_196837_327302_1784570_0_19 HTTP/1.1" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Element/1.11.62 Chrome/122.0.6261.70 Electron/29.1.0 Safari/537.36" [0 dbevts]

The developer console shows the same like in #27246.

I have the server version v1.103.0 running.

[t3chguy]

Regressed by matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#4100