Settings toggle to enable IPFS Companion causes segmentation fault on Linux

[lidel]

Description

Enabling IPFS Companion via Settings causes instant crash on Linux, while installing it via https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-companion/nibjojkomfdiaoajekhjakgkdhaomnch works fine.

This seems to be similar to #7325 however the crash is instant and did not have any problems on Linux before, so I am assuming this is a separate problem.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Brave with a fresh profile on a Linux box
2. Go to Settings → Extensions
3. Click on the toggle to enable IPFS Companion

Actual result:

Instant crash, process exits

segmentation fault

Expected result:

Enable IPFS Companion

Reproduces how often:

Every time. I tested it on two different Linux boxes: Gentoo (using .zip from /releases in this repo) and Debian 10 (using official .deb and apt).

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave    | 1.7.86 Chromium: 80.0.3987.163 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)
Revision | e7fbe071abe9328cdce4ffedac9822435fbd3656-refs/branch-heads/3987@{#1037}
OS       | Linux (5.6.2)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
  • Yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
  • Yes v1.8.66
• Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel?
  • Did not check
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?
  • Yes: v1.9.9

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
  • No
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
  • No
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?
  • No, the same version installs just fine on Chrome.

Miscellaneous Information:

cc #7325 #819 ipfs/ipfs-companion#716

@bbondy I suspect something changed in Chrome or Chrome Web Store and there is now a bug in Brave around one-click-install.

Note that manual installation via button at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-companion/nibjojkomfdiaoajekhjakgkdhaomnch works fine – so so this is not a bug in ipfs-companion, but something related to the toggle button on Settings page

I enabled crash reporting and retried, but it seems to crash before it can report the crash(?) anyway Report Id is 6c280000-9fe2-3a

--2020-04-08 14:14:22--  https://cr.brave.com/
Resolving cr.brave.com (cr.brave.com)... 151.101.13.7
Connecting to cr.brave.com (cr.brave.com)|151.101.13.7|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 36
Saving to: ‘/dev/fd/4’

/dev/fd/4                    0%[                                       ]       0  --.-KB/s               
Failed to get crash dump id./dev/fd/4                  100%[======================================>]      36  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

Report Id: 
6c280000-9fe2-3a

[btlechowski]

Verification passed on

Brave	1.8.76 Chromium: 81.0.4044.92 (Official Build) dev (64-bit)
Revision	e98e6f21168a55e7ba57202f56323911cd9d31d1-refs/branch-heads/4044@{#883}
OS	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Reproduced the crash on 1.7.95.

Verified test plan from brave/brave-core#5205
Verified ipfs extension installed without issues