Description of the issue:
brave-browser crashes with no error message
Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3.
brave-browser-stable
Trace/breakpoint trap
brave-browser-beta
Trace/breakpoint trap
Starting the browser with the -no-sandbox switch worked fine
Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu):
$ uname -a
Linux flop 4.14.162 #6 SMP Tue Jan 7 02:35:18 GMT 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
dpkg -l | grep brave-browser
ii brave-browser 0.67.125 amd64 The web browser from Brave
ii brave-browser-beta 0.71.112 amd64 The web browser from Brave
Additional Information:
The browser was working fine on another similar linux machine. After many kernel compiles I have managed to narrow it down:
Having just
CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
CONFIG_USER_NS=y
CONFIG_X86_FEATURE_NAMES=y
is not enough and segfaults the brave-browser
adding also
CONFIG_UTS_NS=y
CONFIG_IPC_NS=y
CONFIG_PID_NS=y
CONFIG_NET_NS=y
solves the problem (not sure which of the 4 is really needed)
In future releases maybe you can include a check for the relevant missing kernel features and print a message.