Brave installed from snap was running perfectly fine for months.
Since two days it is not starting when clicking Brave icon from launcher.
When attempting to run Brave from command line just calling brave
I am getting following warnings, browser starts but without all my profile data (bookmarks, configuration, history), and it is in unsafe –no-sandbox modee.
main.go:224: cannot change mount namespace of snap "brave" according to change mount (/snap/gtk-common-themes/818/share/icons/Suru /snap/brave/44/data-dir/icons/Suru none bind,ro 0 0): cannot use "/snap/gtk-common-themes/818/share/icons/Suru" as bind-mount source: not a directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient;
It looks like snap-AppArmor integration issue.
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.
snap version
snap 2.36.2
snapd 2.36.2
series 16
ubuntu 18.04
kernel 4.15.0-42-generic
apt policy apparmor
apparmor:
Installed: 2.12-4ubuntu5.1
snap info brave
name: brave
summary: A browser with your interests at heart.
publisher: Brave Software (brave*)
contact: https://community.brave.com/
license: unset
description: |
Browse faster by blocking ads and trackers that violate your privacy and
cost you time and money.
commands:
- brave
snap-id: uE3hSmGE91m9MpbDEnUWi2vpeumH6gmv
tracking: stable
refresh-date: today at 10:26 IST
channels:
stable: v0.56.12-5.dev (44) 160MB -
candidate: ^
beta: ^
edge: ^
installed: v0.56.12-5.dev (44) 160MB -
Best Answer
The solution presented here is to use:
Additionally in the link another user points out you don't need to use
snap
becausebrave
is in the repo's now. You can download thebrave
.deb
installation package here.