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Brave Beta/Developer fails to launch #11791

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srirambv opened this issue Nov 5, 2017 · 2 comments · Fixed by #11808
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Brave Beta/Developer fails to launch #11791

srirambv opened this issue Nov 5, 2017 · 2 comments · Fixed by #11808

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srirambv commented Nov 5, 2017

Description

Brave Beta/DEveloper fails to launch on Windows

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Install Brave beta 0.20.5 or Brave developer 0.21.2 along side 0.19.80
  2. Browser launches on completion of setup
  3. Quit both browsers Beta and release version
  4. Launch Brave beta/developer, doesn't launch background worker process for Brave beta/developer keeps initialising and terminates, Can't terminate the background process(see screenshot)
  5. Launch Brave, still doesn't launch background worker process for Brave beta/developer keeps initialising and terminating

Actual result:
bravebeta

Expected result:
Brave beta/developer browser window should launch

Reproduces how often:
100%

Brave Version

about:brave info:

Reproducible on current live release:
N/A

Additional Information

cc: @bbondy @aekeus

@srirambv srirambv added this to the 0.20.x (Beta Channel) milestone Nov 5, 2017
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ghost commented Nov 6, 2017

Same it's really annoying but only occurs on Beta and Dev channals. :(

@srirambv srirambv changed the title Brave Beta fails to launch on Windows Brave Beta/Developer fails to launch on Windows Nov 6, 2017
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srirambv commented Nov 6, 2017

This happens on building from source as well. Browser window doesn't start. Console throws this error

$ npm start

> brave@0.20.5 start E:\srirambv\master\browser-laptop
> node ./tools/start.js --user-data-dir-name=brave-development --enable-logging --v=0 --enable-extension-activity-logging --enable-sandbox-logging --enable-dcheck

App threw an error during load
Error: Cannot find module '../auto-updater'
    at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (E:\srirambv\master\browser-laptop\node_modules\electron-prebuilt\dist\resources\electron.asar\common\reset-search-paths.js:41:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:498:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.get [as autoUpdater] (E:\srirambv\master\browser-laptop\node_modules\electron-prebuilt\dist\resources\electron.asar\browser\api\exports\electron.js:17:14)
    at E:\srirambv\master\browser-laptop\app\updater.js:10:30
    at Object.<anonymous> (E:\srirambv\master\browser-laptop\app\updater.js:258:2)
    at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
An uncaught exception occurred in the main process Uncaught Exception:
Error: Cannot find module '../auto-updater'
    at Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (E:\srirambv\master\browser-laptop\node_modules\electron-prebuilt\dist\resources\electron.asar\common\reset-search-paths.js:41:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:498:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.get [as autoUpdater] (E:\srirambv\master\browser-laptop\node_modules\electron-prebuilt\dist\resources\electron.asar\browser\api\exports\electron.js:17:14)
    at E:\srirambv\master\browser-laptop\app\updater.js:10:30
    at Object.<anonymous> (E:\srirambv\master\browser-laptop\app\updater.js:258:2)
    at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
[1106/154045.171:ERROR:process_info.cc(632)] range at 0xbd05be8200000000, size 0x275 fully unreadable
[1106/154045.172:ERROR:process_info.cc(632)] range at 0xbd05bea200000000, size 0x275 fully unreadable
[1106/154045.172:ERROR:process_info.cc(632)] range at 0xbd05bea400000000, size 0x275 fully unreadable
Waiting 60 seconds for process to load
Error: unrecognized flag --icu_case_mapping
Try --help for options
process exited with code 0

darkdh added a commit that referenced this issue Nov 6, 2017
7317c70#diff-957f46bacb200ef966023deb70f7be5cR13

fix #11791

Auditors: @bsclifton, @bbondy

Test Plan:
a. npm start without setting CHANNEL=dev env

b. package and build installer
b.1 install Brave by the installer
syuan100 pushed a commit to syuan100/browser-laptop that referenced this issue Nov 9, 2017
brave@7317c70#diff-957f46bacb200ef966023deb70f7be5cR13

fix brave#11791

Auditors: @bsclifton, @bbondy

Test Plan:
a. npm start without setting CHANNEL=dev env

b. package and build installer
b.1 install Brave by the installer
@kjozwiak kjozwiak changed the title Brave Beta/Developer fails to launch on Windows Brave Beta/Developer fails to launch Dec 22, 2017
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