brave-browser: Brave doesn't work on Fedora 38
Description
UI does not render correctly (no text, flickering, ect.) Logs have a lot of shader compilation errors:
[16275:16275:0506/135751.025985:ERROR:shared_context_state.cc(77)] Skia shader compilation error
Errors:
link failed but did not provide an info log
Steps to Reproduce
- Upgraded from Fedora 37 to Fedora 38
- brave-browser-1.51.110-1.x86_64
- Running on i3/X11
Actual result:
Brave version (brave://version info)
brave-browser-1.51.110-1.x86_64
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: open
- Created a year ago
- Reactions: 2
- Comments: 24
Okay so for me I had to delete another folder… deleting GrShaderCache and ShaderCache inside of ~/.config/BraveSoftware/BraveBrowser didn’t help. I had to do this:
That’s the one that resolved my issue. Credit where credit is due though, as I stole this from an Arch Forum Post.
Downgraded to brave-browser-1.50.125-1.x86_64 and it worked
You may not need to delete your entire profile or start from scratch, I think it’s enough to just remove the shader caches.
I updated to 1.51.118, disabled Vulkan (which is still causing black bars on video), and deleted two folders:
ShaderCacheandGrShaderCacheinside the profile folder (~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/). Now everything works just fine.Thanks to @rillian for the hint.
I confirm @rillian proposal. By deleting the profile in /home/$USER/.config/BraveSoftware/ Brave works with version 1.51.110
Manually enabling Vulkan from
brave://flagsfixes 99% of issues on my setup (Fedora 37, Mesa 23.0.3, GNOME on Wayland). Only issue so far is a black bar on the YouTube UI, otherwise usable.I think that is a problem in Chromium 113 because in chrome with this version I’m the same mistake, with Version 112 and 114 it missing