Oh I’ve been dealing with this same stuff lately, in various “non-systemd” distros. But anyway, here’s something that might help…
https://community.brave.com/t/solved-brave-not-launching-on-debian-linux/3255
Not sure WHY username spaces should be enabled in kernel, to me that’s possible security risk. (I even had security alerts or warnings in Yaourt when trying to build it) I tried installing Brave in Artix linux, MX Linux, Void Linux, and few others… and they all wouldn’t work unless that was enabled.
There’s still one distro where I get the “trace/breakpoint trap” message in terminal trying to run it from terminal.
I also tried… “cd” to get into the /Brave folder and noticed the “brave-bin.sh” script there and tried running it as root or sudo… and it won’t run get error…
Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "then")
So tried “dos2unix” on brave-bin.sh script, still same error. Tried sed -i 's/\r$//' brave-bin.sh and still didn’t work. Lol.
Then even had bunches of other errors already as well… Dunno what’s going on with Brave but something not right.
./brave [1442:1442:1222/235703.489575:ERROR:platform_thread_posix.cc(128)] pthread_create: Invalid argument (22) [1442:1442:1222/235703.490253:ERROR:shutdown_signal_handlers_posix.cc(199)] Failed to create shutdown detector task. [1442:1442:1222/235703.544359:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc(93)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 0 characters (32 were expected). [1474:1474:1222/235703.996375:ERROR:gl_implementation.cc(281)] Failed to load /home/dt/Downloads/Brave/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so: /home/dt/Downloads/Brave/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [1474:1474:1222/235704.029356:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(184)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization [1539:1539:1222/235704.705156:ERROR:gl_implementation.cc(281)] Failed to load /home/dt/Downloads/Brave/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so: /home/dt/Downloads/Brave/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [1539:1539:1222/235704.728983:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(184)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization [1442:1462:1222/235704.810625:ERROR:rewards_service_impl.cc(141)] Failed to read file: /home/dt/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default/ledger_state [1442:1450:1222/235704.837316:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(139)] Failed to launch GPU process. [1442:1442:1222/235705.278021:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(967)] Lost UI shared context. [1442:1442:1222/235705.627649:ERROR:x11_input_method_context_impl_gtk.cc(144)] Not implemented reached in virtual void libgtkui::X11InputMethodContextImplGtk::SetSurroundingText(const base::string16 &, const gfx::Range &)
My issues here down at their Github: