Unrecoverable crash loop after hibernate

[latonv]

Description

I hibernated my Windows 10 machine with Brave open (and a number of other applications), as I often do. Upon resuming from hibernation, Brave crashed within a minute or so with no interaction from me -- it was just sitting open in the background. Now, whenever I try to open Brave again, it stays open for about 4 seconds, showing the "Restore pages" bubble, but then crashes again. I've also tried opening only a private window, and the result is the same: almost immediate crash.

I think there were only a few tabs open at the time that I hibernated... one was a Google Sheet, don't remember the others.

Steps to Reproduce

I have to admit, I'm not really sure what made this crash happen. I'm only speculating that it had something to with resuming from hibernation. But here's more or less what I did:

First crash:

1. Run Brave
2. Hibernate
3. Resume from hibernation
4. Crash

Subsequent crashes after first:

1. Open Brave, do nothing
2. Crash within a few seconds

Actual result:

Immediate crash

Expected result:

No crash

Reproduces how often:

The subsequent crashes are happening with 100% reliability on my end. As for the initial crash, I don't know.

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave: 75.0.66.101 (according to the list of installed programs)
OS: Windows 10 Pro (64-bit), Version 1903, Build 18362.175

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Yes (I'm on the current release, right?)
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Haven't tried
• Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel? Haven't tried
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Haven't tried

Other Additional Information:

I can't disable or change any settings, because Brave won't stay open long enough for me to try.

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? Can't try
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? Can't try
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? Chrome was open too when this started, haven't had any issues with it

Miscellaneous Information:

I have Crashpad dumps for every crash, but can't access brave://crashes to upload them...

Every crash corresponds to a warning in the Windows Event Viewer that looks something like this:

{2593F8B9-4EAF-457C-B68A-50F6B8EA6B54}
 and APPID 
{15C20B67-12E7-4BB6-92BB-7AFF07997402}
 to the user <redacted> from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Not sure if that's related to Brave starting up or it crashing though.

[kjozwiak]

@latonv mind taking a look under brave://crashes and see if there's any recorded crashes?

[latonv]

I would, but I can't actually get into brave://crashes because the browser always crashes before I can get there. However, there do seem to be crash dump files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Crashpad\reports for every crash so far. How can I get them to you?

[simonhong]

@latonv I think this issue seems similar with #4764.
Can you test with nightly or dev release?

[latonv]

I'm unable to reproduce the crash in a fresh install of the dev release; it may well be the same issue.

[simonhong]

@latonv Thanks for checking! 👍