exit code 139, exo-open error message

[quantenschaum]

Description

brave-browser exits with 139 when there is already a running instance.

Steps to Reproduce

On Xubuntu 19.04 (disco) (xfce! not plain Ubuntu)

1. Install brave via ppa
2. set brave as default browser (in exo-preferred-applications)
3. launch brave
4. launch brave again using exo-open --launch WebBrowser or brave-browser

Actual result:

Brave opens new window and

• an error message is displayed. (exo-open)
  
• exits with 139. (brave-browser)

Expected result:

Brave opens new window without any error message, exit code 0.

Reproduces how often:

every time

workaround

launch brave via shell script

#!/bin/sh
brave-browser "$@"
exit 0

Brave version (brave://version)

Brave	0.68.132 Chromium: 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	fd1acc410994a7a68ac25bc77513d443f3130860-refs/branch-heads/3809@{#1035}
OS	Linux
JavaScript	V8 7.6.303.29
Flash	(Disabled)
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/usr/bin/x-www-browser --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --disable-chrome-google-url-tracking-client --no-pings --extensions-install-verification=enforce_strict --enable-features=NewExtensionUpdaterService,SimplifyHttpsIndicator --disable-features=AutofillServerCommunication,TranslateUI,NetworkService,UnifiedConsent --flag-switches-begin --load-media-router-component-extension=1 --disable-features=AutofillServerCommunication,TranslateUI,NetworkService,UnifiedConsent,ViewsCastDialog --flag-switches-end http://127.0.0.1:4000/
Executable Path	/opt/brave.com/brave/brave-browser
Profile Path	/home/user/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
Variations	d74ef32b-ca7d8d80

Other Additional Information

Chrome does behave as expected.

[rebron]

@fmarier Can you take a look?

[fmarier]

At first glance, it looks like a dupe of #4142.

[fmarier]

I was able to reproduce the problem and I do think it's the same root cause as #4142.