(Bug report) Trilium crashes upon start on a relatively new and minimal Debian 12.

[higher-order]

Trilium Version

0.63.7

What operating system are you using?

Other Linux

What is your setup?

Local (no sync)

Operating System Version

Debian 12.9

Description

I recently installed a relatively minimal Debian 12 on my laptop. During the installation, I didn't install any DE since I would be using the Sway window manager later. I downloaded the latest v0.63.7 release of Trilium and tried both the .tar.xz file and the .deb file. Since it's a fresh install, I haven't created any notes. Upon running ./trilium in the extracted directory, it crashed after printing:

DB not initialized, please visit setup page
DB size: 4 KB
{
  "appVersion": "0.63.7",
  "dbVersion": 228,
  "nodeVersion": "v18.15.0",
  "syncVersion": 32,
  "buildDate": "2024-05-30T06:59:06+02:00",
  "buildRevision": "95d46b7ce7e0036eeb72b43e1815cc5c00dc214c",
  "dataDirectory": "/home/user/.local/share/trilium-data",
  "clipperProtocolVersion": "1.0",
  "utcDateTime": "2025-01-27T09:17:19.120Z"
}
CPU model: [Redacted]
Trusted reverse proxy: false
App HTTP server starting up at port 37840
Listening on port 37840
[34527:0127/041719.665305:ERROR:ozone_platform_x11.cc(240)] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[34527:0127/041719.665330:ERROR:env.cc(255)] The platform failed to initialize.  Exiting.
The futex facility returned an unexpected error code.
Aborted

The logs in ~/.local/share/trilium-data/log are empty.

I noticed that it says "missing X server". From some other issues I saw that Trilium can run on Wayland. But do I have to configure it to run on Wayland? Or is it some other problem?

Error logs

No response

[eliandoran]

@higher-order , a wild guess would be that Trilium Notes runs on older Electron version that causes issues for you.
Maybe have a look at https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes and see if it works for you? :)