Suddenly getting "Error code: SIGILL" on many websites

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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

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