Hi,
I’ve been using Brave for a while, and recently I made the mistake of opening Clipchamp, which might have “corrupted” Brave or caused an issue. Since then, whenever I try to open Brave, it closes by itself after a few milliseconds. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
—Uninstalled and reinstalled Brave multiple times, as well as cleared the cache—nothing changed.
— Found some old posts from 2022 mentioning an issue with Crypto.com and the need to deactivate the “card” icon—nothing changed.
— Restarted the computer in Safe Mode, and Brave worked—it opened and stayed open.
— Opened the Task Manager to check if anything was interfering with Brave—nothing seemed to be causing it. I then tried ending tasks one by one and restarting Brave to see if anything was causing it to close, but nothing worked.
Notable observations:
I’ve noticed that during the first 5–10 seconds after restarting my computer (Windows 11), Brave seems to work, but it closes as soon as other apps start running.
I also checked the Microsoft Management Console, and the issue while running Brave was:
The service cannot be started. System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: singletonInstance
at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost…ctor(Object singletonInstance, Uri baseAddresses)
at IronCity.Core.Server.CoreServer.(Object, Uri)
at IronCity.Core.Server.CoreServer.Start()
at XtuService.XtuService1.(CoreServer)
at XtuService.XtuService1.OnStart(String args)
Details:
The service cannot be started. System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: singletonInstance
at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost…ctor(Object singletonInstance, Uri baseAddresses)
at IronCity.Core.Server.CoreServer.(Object, Uri)
at IronCity.Core.Server.CoreServer.Start()
at XtuService.XtuService1.(CoreServer)
at XtuService.XtuService1.OnStart(String args)
at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.ServiceQueuedMainCallback(Object state)
The issue seems to be related to the singletonInstance, which shouldn’t be null.
I’ve tried searching for any XTU or IronCity-related elements but couldn’t find anything relevant, which is really frustrating at this point.
Thanks a lot for reading! If anyone has a temporary or definitive solution, I’d really appreciate it!