Suddenly getting "Error code: SIGILL" on many websites

[dariooddenino]

Description of the issue: Suddenly getting “Error code: SIGILL” on many websites
How can this issue be reproduced?

1. Visit stripe.com or https://www.streetfighter.com/6/en-us/

Expected result: I expect the pages to open instead of showing the error

Brave Version( check About Brave): Version 1.50.121 Chromium: 112.0.5615.138 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additional Information:
I’m on Ubuntu 20.04
Today I started getting this error on many pages.
Rebooting, clearing cache and cookies and opening the page on a private window doesn’t help.
Other browsers work perfectly fine.

[abton]

Getting exactly the same error on Fedora 37. Cannot open any page including about or settings.

The latest linux release of Brave seems to be completely broken.

[Jokke]

Same issue here, page loads for a second before the Sigill error code pops-up.

Tried disabling extensions and clearing cache and cookies. No Luck.

Version 1.50.121 Chromium: 112.0.5615.138 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

Did a clean install using curl and the “new” Brave seems to be working.

[tangerinepotatochips]

Same problem here after updating on Fedora to version brave-browser-1.50.121-1.x86_64.
Running remove and install through DNF sequentially does not work for me (settings remain intact so perhaps it’s related to some settings, or sync which I did have enabled).
Can’t open any webpage or internal pages such as settings.

[dantahoua]

Same here after update. I’m on Fedora 37…

[abton]

It may be a more general chromium issue, as I tried the latest version of Microsoft Edge as well and it is having the same problem with exactly the same error code.

[LxWulf]

I can’t say what the problem exactly is, but I have a possible workaround.

System Info:

OS => Fedora Linux 38
Kernel => 6.2.11-300.fc38.x86_64

Brave Browser Info (Crashing):
Version: 1.50.121-1

Workaround:

On fedora, we can just downgrade the brave-browser package.
With dnf --showdubplicates list brave-browser we can look which packages are cached.

My output:

[root@thinkpadx395 ~]# dnf --showduplicates list brave-browser
vscodium-repo-rpm                               1.1 kB/s | 866  B     00:00    
Installed Packages
brave-browser.x86_64        1.50.121-1         @brave-browser-rpm-release_x86_64
Available Packages
brave-browser.x86_64        1.48.171-1         brave-browser-rpm-release_x86_64 
brave-browser.x86_64        1.49.120-1         brave-browser-rpm-release_x86_64 
brave-browser.x86_64        1.49.128-1         brave-browser-rpm-release_x86_64 
brave-browser.x86_64        1.49.132-1         brave-browser-rpm-release_x86_64 
brave-browser.x86_64        1.50.114-1         brave-browser-rpm-release_x86_64 
brave-browser.x86_64        1.50.119-1         brave-browser-rpm-release_x86_64 
brave-browser.x86_64        1.50.121-1         brave-browser-rpm-release_x86_64

The last entry is green on my side – this means it’s the one which is installed right now.
You can then install a package/upgrade earlier with dnf install brave-browser-1.50.119-1 in my case. The dnf package manager tries then automatically to downgrade the brave-browser package.

Now brave-browser does work again, and we just need to wait until a fix is here.

For the next system upgrade via dnf add dnf up --exclude=brave-browser to your command. So every, package gets updated except brave-browser until we know the new update will work.

I hope I can help with this to bridge the wait time until a newer update is here.

Greets LxWulf

[jmsb]

@LxWulf Thank you for the workaround.

I have the same system info:

Kernel 6.2.11-300.fc38.x86_64
Fedora 38
Brave 1.50.121-1

And Brave is now crashing on almost every page since that last update.

[LxWulf]

No problem, happy to help.

It was the same situation on my side until I downgraded brave-browser as described.
I even now write those words in the downgraded brave-browser.

[jmsb]

I’m not sure if it’s related but I’ve noticed a System Failure right after logging in GNOME and that includes brave in its output.

package:

kernel-core-6.2.11-300.fc38

reason:

traps: brave[3395] trap invalid opcode ip:55cacfef690c sp:7ffd4236fb80 error:0 in brave[55cacbb05000+aefe000]

cmdline:

BOOT_IMAGE=(hd1,gpt5)/vmlinuz-6.2.11-300.fc38.x86_64 root=UUID=1eab5243-85b2-4778-b86f-36f0a7b1c593 ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet

[jmsb]

More importantly, here’s the cmdline that generated the error with reason brave killed by SIGILL that I got from GNOME Problem Reporting:

/opt/brave.com/brave/brave --type=renderer --crashpad-handler-pid=14251 --enable-crash-reporter=, --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeAvu71j4EmXuK7tr1PBC7SHh8ld4Mw3E=,fMS4npO6auLR/QNd+zKmxzoy/VR6B1EUTqoCW04ztRU= --change-stack-guard-on-fork=enable --brave_session_token=7126019843103326652 --lang=en-US --num-raster-threads=2 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --renderer-client-id=6 --time-ticks-at-unix-epoch=-1681998254587908 --launch-time-ticks=3999837410 --shared-files=v8_context_snapshot_data:100 --field-trial-handle=0,i,18125051776039769189,7978106451523140309,141872

[Jokke]

I disabled all the extensions and restarted Brave. Solved the issue on my end.

Will try to narrow down to which extension(s) are impacting the browser.

[abton]

Started Brave with the command line “brave-browser --disable-extensions” to see if it was an extension causing the problem, but Brave still had the ‘sigill’ error, so not sure it is an extension issue.

[steeven]

Thanks all for reporting. The team has identified the issue3 and is working to release a fix, expected within the next few hours.

[TrieHard]

Same, fedora 38

Glad there’s already motion. Adding dmesg spew just in case ( too new to upload files ):

Apr 20 11:59:10 tigre systemd-coredump[23110]: Process 23037 (brave) of user 1000 dumped core.

                                           Module /home/[redacted]/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/WidevineCdm/4.10.2557.0/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so from rpm brotli-1.0.9-11.fc38.x86_64

[steeven]

The fix has been released with Release Channel 1.50.125 (Linux Only)

[ozzo]

This release has been fixed the SIGILL error code. Thank you Brave staff.

[chr99]

Fixed the problem on Fedora38, thank you!

[marc.light]

Same here on Federa 37.