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Brave wont start after enabling widevine (linux) #42243

Open t-moe opened 1 week ago

t-moe commented 1 week ago

Description

Today brave prompted me to install widedive to be able to watch disney+. After restarting the browser, the main windows just wont show again.

I tried the following, without success:

add --disable-extensions to the commandline
Removed ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/WidevineCdm

Steps to reproduce

not sure if you can repro this. I cant reproduce myself. because i just cannot start brave again

Actual result

brave does not open again

Expected result

brave should open

Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

brave-bin 1:1.70.117-1 (archlinux)

Channel information

[ ] release (stable)
[ ] beta
[ ] nightly

Reproducibility

[ ] with Brave Shields disabled
[ ] with Brave Rewards disabled
[ ] in the latest version of Chrome

Miscellaneous information

No response

t-moe commented 6 days ago

If I delete my profile, i can use brave again. But I would rather continue using my previous profile.

Can I provide logs somehow? Can I try some commandline switch?