Segmentation Fault Keeps Crashing Browser

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I hope this explains what is going on. I am not that computer literate and it would not let me paste the entire Bin.
Info

       PID: 18324 (brave)
       UID: 1000 (john)
       GID: 1000 (john)
    Signal: 11 (SEGV)
 Timestamp: Tue 2025-03-04 14:09:43 CST (25min ago)

Command Line: $‘/opt/brave.com/brave/brave --type=renderer --string-annotations --crashpad-handler-pid=18030 --enable-crash-reporter=bda924cc-6f07-4f43-91bc-dcc35e82d532, --enable-distillability-service --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --change-stack-guard-on-fork=enable --lang=en-US --num-raster-threads=4 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --renderer-client-id=15 --time-ticks-at-unix-epoch=-1741117004096044 --launch-time-ticks=1975111552 --shared-files=v8_context_snapshot_data:100 --field-trial-handle=3,i,5471302670026606999,14319166365032879759,262144 --variations-seed-version=main@a8723b3b0b4ce43e3f2a414843d68e4d8190eabb’
Executable: /opt/brave.com/brave/brave
Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-c3.scope
Unit: session-c3.scope
Slice: user-1000.slice
Session: c3
Owner UID: 1000 (john)
Boot ID: ed148e8b39ce4d009af1a790d01cd3cd
Machine ID: c6c146e5fc8b48708506ce3dcb703992
Hostname: Office
Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.brave.1000.ed148e8b39ce4d009af1a790d01cd3cd.18324.1741118983000000.zst (present)
Size on Disk: 15.2M
Message: Process 18324 (brave) of user 1000 dumped core.

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Sounds like a SIGSEGV error (or similar).

Usually, in a Linux OS command line, you can start Brave Browser with one of the following commands:

brave -n --args --incognito --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-gpu --enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure 2> $HOME/Desktop/brave_console_out.txt

or

brave-browser -n --args --incognito --no-experiments --disable-extensions --disable-gpu --enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure 2> $HOME/Desktop/brave_console_out.txt

For that command string, the switches are intended to:

  • Start up Brave Browser, showing a New Private Window [--incognito]
  • Disable all experiments at brave://flags [--no-experiments]
  • Disable extensions [--disable-extensions]
  • Disable hardware (GPU) ie Graphic Acceleration [--disable-gpu]
  • Enable leak detection and if that failure occurs, then crash the browser [--enable-leak-detection --crash-on-failure are a combo]
  • Produce error/log output to a file named ‘brave_console_out.txt’ on the Linux OS Desktop

IF / WHEN BB is running, go to brave://settings/clearBrowserData Advanced tab

Time range: All time

ENABLE:

  • Browsing history
  • Download hsitory
  • Cookies and other site data
  • Cached images and files

Click Clear data

In Brave Browser Settings, DISABLE ALL extensions added by the user. “ALL” means all of them, added by the user ← who sometimes will cling to some extensions, and thus fail to properly test the issue.

ENABLE the following, so Brave receives info:

05_Privacy_and_Security_003_Data_Collection
05_Privacy_and_Security_003_Data_Collection1229×469 62.6 KB

Exit / Quit BB. Test a normal start.

How do I manually submit crash reports?

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/22281484910221-How-do-I-manually-submit-crash-reports

After you click the “Send Now” button, return to brave://crashes and gather up the Crash ID numbers. Post the numbers, here, in a new reply.

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