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Nick0

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Registered: 2025-10-18

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Brave Browser Sessions Cleared On Reboot

I am experiencing intermittent loss of saved website logins in Brave on Arch Linux.

Most of the time Brave restores sessions correctly after reboot, but occasionally all websites are logged out at once. The Brave profile itself is not reset; only site authentication appears to be lost.

Brave is installed via the AUR package brave-bin. I am launching Brave with the following flag configured in ~/.config/brave-flags.conf:

--password-store=kwallet6

System details:
- Desktop environment: Hyprland
- Display manager: SDDM
- Session type: Wayland
- Keyring: kwallet6
- Brave version: 144.1.86.142

KWallet appears to be running and unlocked at login when this occurs. The issue is infrequent and does not seem tied to crashes or unclean shutdowns.

Has anyone encountered Brave intermittently failing to use kwallet on Arch, or found a reliable way to prevent credential loss?

Edit:
This is a very infrequent issue (once every few months), so it’s difficult to reproduce reliably. I wanted to ask in case there’s a known or obvious cause I’m overlooking.

Last edited by Nick0 (2026-01-29 03:17:16)

5hridhyan

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Registered: 2025-12-25

Posts: 311

Re: Brave Browser Sessions Cleared On Reboot

does gnome keyring helps?, I had similar issues and I switched to gnome-keyring/libsecret, and it helped me, I hope it helps you too.

sudo pacman -S gnome-keyring libsecret

and

--password-store=gnome-libsecret
--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform
--ozone-platform=wayland

also in "~/.config/hypr/autostart.conf" I added

exec-once = gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=secrets

Last edited by 5hridhyan (2026-01-28 05:38:44)

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cryptearth

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Re: Brave Browser Sessions Cleared On Reboot

well, although it happens to me far less frwquently but from time to time there actually is an update which somehow causes some hickup with chromium
usually a reboot solves the issue - i guess just logout/login would be sufficient - but yesterday i ran out of luck and even a 2nd full reboot wasn't able to fix it
funny enough this unintented "emergency" was a good test for my accounts security: i'm actually logged in just to a few big services like google, github, microsoft, steam - and the just use thier socials to login into most other pages
github was the only service provide a login with just the passkey, google and M$ required at least the e-mail address - and steam just the scan if the qr code at login
so, tl;dr: although it happened to me, too, I was able to recover very fast very easy

seth

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Re: Brave Browser Sessions Cleared On Reboot

Either there's a (stale) brave process before kwallet starts or the session bus is broken.
The latter one being less likely w/ SDDM - do you autostart brave w/ hyprland (maybe restoring the session)?

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mytu

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Registered: 2026-01-28

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Re: Brave Browser Sessions Cleared On Reboot

I have sort of the same issue. I installed Cachy OS today and set it all up on laptop and desktop but I turned off the KDE Wallet as it was prompting me each time I had to open Brave when I first logged in.

Well, my Brave Sync disappears and its quite frustrating - same as you, logs me out of everything.

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Re: Brave Browser Sessions Cleared On Reboot

Welcome to arch forums, Nick0 and mytu .

mytu, keep in mind we can't help with troubleshooting CachyOS issues.
If you have input/opinions that are relevant  feel free to post them.

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Nick0

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Registered: 2025-10-18

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Re: Brave Browser Sessions Cleared On Reboot

does gnome keyring helps?, I had similar issues and I switched to gnome-keyring/libsecret, and it helped me, I hope it helps you too.

I haven't tried gnome keyring yet. I might give it a go if this happens again. It really only ever happens once in a blue moon (once in the past three months) so I wouldn't be able to reliably verify that it fixed the issue.

Either there's a (stale) brave process before kwallet starts or the session bus is broken.
The latter one being less likely w/ SDDM - do you autostart brave w/ hyprland (maybe restoring the session)?

I don’t autostart Brave and I don’t have Hyprland configured to restore applications on login. This was right after a fresh boot, so there should not have been a leftover Brave process from a previous session. I did launch Brave very shortly after login. It's possible this occurred before kwallet was fully unlocked or available.