Brave crashes immediately

[DelicateIntegral]

Issue:

I updated the brave flatpak 2 days ago to : 1.69.162

Yesterday I started using wayland.

Today when I opened Brave after starting computer it keep on crashing. I changed to X11 session but no change. I uninstalled (cleared data also with flatsweep) and reinstalled. But it still didn't work. Even launching from terminal crashed

Ultimately I used warehouse to downgrade brave to 1.69.160. It is now running (for an hour atleast, I am typing on brave) fine even on wayland session.

Note

System INFO:
OS: Linux (Kubuntu 24.04)
DE: KDE
Session: Wayland/X11 (both)
App Type: Flatpak
Crashing Brave Version: v1.69.162

[ezekias42]

I am having the same issue.

Using 'flatpak run' makes it to stay open, but I receive the following messages on terminal:

[2:2:0909/155427.138266:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.GetActive: object_path= /org/freedesktop/ScreenSaver: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: This method is not part of the idle inhibition specification: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/idle-inhibit-spec/latest/

[58:58:0909/155435.679062:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!

[58:58:0909/155449.985112:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!

[58:58:0909/155455.605534:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!

[DelicateIntegral]

iirc, mine was crashing even from terminal. I have freezed updates and downgraded to 1.69.160 which is running fine for me (for now atleast). Maybe I will try updating after few more releases.

[ThisNekoGuy]

I'm on version 1.71.114 and this also happening to me regardless of how I run it (desktop and terminal), but notably the issue didn't start this way...
For me, I noticed it started happening after I enabled the Brave Ad system. The first time it took a minute or two to happen (and I got interrupted trying to sign up for the wallet), and every subsequent time it happens after just a few seconds.

Also noticed that for some crazy reason the flatpak version of Brave depends on XWayland instead of native Wayland ( 😢 Why?) but that's of course a separate problem.

Running:

flatpak run com.brave.Browser --ozone-platform-hint=auto --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandWindowDecorations

allows me to run Brave with Wayland, but it doesn't prevent the crash.
I do get an error about a ptrace failing to attach to the crashing process in the terminal though, which might help here if it actually worked. 😅

[2:2:1022/205227.657879:ERROR:CONSOLE(2185)] "[Settings] Appearance Page cannot find use default theme button template", source: chrome://settings/settings.js (2185)
tracing_subscriber - init success
[1022/205253.963518:ERROR:scoped_ptrace_attach.cc(27)] ptrace: Operation not permitted (1)

EDIT:
I also noticed that, from my task manager, it balloons to an absurd amount of RAM usage without any tabs open.
After around 10GBs, it decided to crash for some reason.

I would try attaching gdb to the process if not for the fact that Brave spawns, like, 14 processes and the browser crashes so fast that I don't think I can identify the correct one before it does.

Note

OS: Gentoo Linux 2.15 (Completely LLVM18 built & w/ glibc)
Kernel: 6.10.9
DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.5
Session: Wayland & X11 (Both)
App Type: Flatpak
Brave Version: v1.71.114
RAM: 32GBs @ 3600 MHz