maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 298229] www/linux-brave: crashes on startup

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:55:33 UTC
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Bug 298229: www/linux-brave: crashes on startup
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=298229



--- Description ---
On FreeBSD 15.1-release Linux Brave crashes on startup with the following
error:

MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
i915: driver missing
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
i915: driver missing
[93081:93081:0906/084924.499738:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_zw
p_linux_dmabuf.cc:306]
drmGetDeviceFromDevId() returned an error: File o directory non esistente (2)
[93081:113487:0906/084924.571406:ERROR:device/udev_linux/udev_watcher.cc:51]
Failed to initialize a udev monitor.
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
i915: driver missing
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
i915: driver missing
[1328:1328:0906/084924.658392:ERROR:media/gpu/vaapi/vaapi_wrapper.cc:1787]
Could not get a valid VA display
[0906/084924.685392:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/scoped_ptrac
e_attach.cc:27]
ptrace: Operation not permitted (1)
[0906/084924.685496:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/proc_task_re
ader.cc:47]
format error
fish: Job 1, 'brave-browser' terminated by signal SIGTRAP (Trace or breakpoint
trap) 

Apparently the only way to fix it is to remove the option --test-type from the
arguments passed to the program in the script bin/brave-browser.