Linux BraveProfileLocked

Overview

Brave not working anymore on Linux machine.

Symptoms

When trying to launch Brave webbrowser, nothing happens.

When trying to launch the app from command line, an error happens :

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[ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(358)] The profile appears to be in use by another Brave process (387108) on another computer (hyper-v). Brave has locked the profile so that it doesn’t get corrupted. If you are sure that no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Brave.

Solution

Find the locked file :

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find -iname SingletonLock

~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/SingletonLock

Remove it

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rm ~/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/SingletonLock