Brave 1.51.110 bugs out with KDE's KWallet. All sites get logged out and sync breaks.

[urbenlegend]

Description

I updated Brave to 1.51.110 yesterday on my Arch Linux KDE machine and it completely broke sync and logged me out of all my sites. Sync complained that it could not access my browser's secure storage even though KWallet shows that it contains a key called Brave Safe Storage. Relogging into all of my sites and resetting sync seemed to correct the issue, but I am able to reproduce this on a fresh install of Brave every time.

Brave was working absolutely fine with KWallet prior to the 1.51.110 update.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start fresh. Delete Brave Safe Storage key from KWallet. Delete app settings in ~/.config/BraveSoftware and ~/.cache/BraveSoftware
2. Launch Brave and sign into a few sites, as well as Brave Sync.
3. Close Brave
4. Relaunch Brave. Notice that sites are logged out and that sync is broken.
5. Re-sign into all of your sites and reset sync using brave://sync-internals
6. Close Brave
7. Relaunch Brave. Notice that it does not break.

Actual result:

Browser complains it is unable to access secure storage once, unless user settings are cleared. After that, it seems okay, although it does make me paranoid that it may not be using secure storage.

Expected result:

Browser should not complain about secure storage.

Reproduces how often:

Every time

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.51.110 Chromium: 113.0.5672.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Not tested
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Not tested

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? N/A
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? N/A
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? Not tested

Miscellaneous Information:

System Info:
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 6.3.1-arch1-1 (64-bit)

[Stolexiy]

Hello!
I faced exactly the same issue after updating to Brave v1.51.110 on my KDE Neon Linux OS.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Version 1.51.110 Chromium: 113.0.5672.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Miscellaneous Information:

System Info:
Operating System: KDE neon 5.27
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-41-generic (64-bit)

[brauliobo]

annoying issue, lost all my sessions :(

[c0pp1]

Hello!
I also faced the same issue. After some attempts I was able to make it work with the following steps:

1. Disable sync through brave://sync-internals
2. Go to System settings >> KDE Wallet >> Access control and activate the option Prompt when an application accesses a wallet
3. reboot
4. Enable sync. When closing and reopening the browser it will ask for access to the Wallet, choose Always allow and done!

Let me know if this works on your platforms too

Brave version (brave://version):

1.51.110 Chromium: 113.0.5672.77 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Miscellaneous Information:

Operating System: Kubuntu 23.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.0-20-generic (64-bit)

[agilob]

Related discussions:

#30040

#30167

https://community.brave.com/t/sync-not-working-brave-was-unable-to-access-your-systems-secure-storage/485452

[Tortillas-IT]

same issue here on arch + KDE btw

[Tortillas-IT]

btw, if i try to delete brave keys using kwallet by KDE and restart brave all seems to be fine, but if i restart brave again... it breaks

[kawazoe]

I've been experiencing this issue as well. Something I've tried is only revoking access to the Brave app, without clearing any keys or disabling sync, then restarting the browser. Brave didn't trigger any prompt to access my wallet, which is suspicious.

[adriandelgg]

I'm having the same issue on Kubuntu 23.04, and I also had it on Fedora 38 KDE Spin. Both issues came from using the official repo instructions on the brave website. (no flatpak or snap).

Downgrading to a lower version fixed the issue. How can I subscribe to this to see when it's patched?

sudo apt install brave-browser=1.50.125

Operating System: Kubuntu 23.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.0-20-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11