Obsidian starts on blank screen

Steps to reproduce

Run the Obsidian Appimage.

Expected result

The app should display the screen with text.

Actual result

A blank screen appears, but everything on the window is still interactable (i.e window close and dropdown menu still work).

Environment

  • Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04
  • Debug info: Obsidian 0.13.14 (can’t access debug info)

Additional information

The same problem occurred with Obsidian 0.12.15. It just began out of nowhere, and worked perfectly before, but now, no matter which version of Obsidian I use, it just shows a blank screen.

This is the output when I run the appimage from terminal:

2022-01-04 20:15:25 Loading main app package /tmp/.mount_ObsidiuQVQWs/resources/obsidian.asar
2022-01-04 20:15:26 Checking for update using Github
2022-01-04 20:15:26 Success.
2022-01-04 20:15:26 Latest version is 0.13.14
2022-01-04 20:15:26 App is up to date.
[38138:0105/091527.387980:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program not linked.
[38138:0105/091527.388265:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.
[38138:0105/091527.388455:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.
[38138:0105/091527.388604:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.
[38138:0105/091527.388765:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.
[38138:0105/091527.388900:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.
[38138:0105/091527.389027:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.
[38138:0105/091527.389149:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.
[38138:0105/091527.389438:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.
[38138:0105/091527.389616:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.
[38138:0105/091527.389909:ERROR:gl_utils.cc(314)] [.RendererMainThread-0x230aed216700] GL_INVALID_OPERATION: Program object expected.

And this is what it looks like:

I am moving this help. Maybe you have some problem with GPU accelleration.

Is there a way I can disable it out of the software?

Maybe there are some flags you can pass with the command line. Search electron flags

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