Internal error opening backing store for indexedDB.open

After my machine (Ubuntu 24.04) crashed, I am not able to open obsidian (version 1.7.5). When clicking on the obsidian icon on the desktop, the following screen appears:

It does not help to click the “Reload app” button or the “Open another vault” button.

If I try to run obsidian from the terminal window (instead of clicking on its icon) I get this output:

I deleted the IndexedDB LevelDB database:

$ rm -rf /home/hakon/.config/obsidian/IndexedDB/app_obsidian.md_0.indexeddb.leveldb

and then restarted obsidian. It seems to have solved the issue!

Edit: I needed to reconnect with obsidian sync and reenable community plugins also.

I was having the same issue. I fixed mine by simply closing Obsidian and reopening it, instead of clicking Reload app. Perhaps we had different problems, just came to say this in case anyone else was having a problem like mine.

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I had the same issue in Windows 11 24H2 26100.2314 with Obsidian v1.7.7 today, and this (abtix’ approach of closing the app and reopening it) fixed it.