Linux Brave log out all my acounts

Description of the issue:
About 2 months ago I start using Brave Browser(from the official apt via) after suffering this same problem in the flatpak version, so after a month I was using the official apt, literally like 4 days ago my accounts log out not only like my account of a random website log out and I log in normally with google, literally every account log out, and today happend the same thing and my passwords from the password manager were deleted, I make sure that I dont enable some options like clear cookies of a website after I closed the tab or clear cookies or passwords after closing brave, that’s happend to me just in the morning when I open brave, I see other topic where happend the same, idk but my problem maybe be the same, but the strange thing is that mine never happend to me when im using my laptop in the day, just happen the first time I start my computer in the day, not every day

How can this issue be reproduced?

  1. Use Brave

  2. Close Brave and turn off the computer

  3. Turn on the computer and open Brave

Expected result:

Brave start like everyday

Actual Result:

Brave log out all my accounts

Operating System and Brave Version( check About Brave):

Current OS: Linux Mint 22.1 (Ubuntu-based), Kernel Linux 6.18.1(customized with make localmodconfig)

Brave 1.85.118 (Compilación oficial) (64 bits)

Additional Information:

Installed from the official repositories on APT

Update Friday, January 9 of 2026:

So it still the same error, i change in the .desktop kwallet to libsecret in the command exec, i put —password-store=gnome-libsecret, and I think it works, but today, the same error log out all my accounts, after I write this post 2 days ago i setup a sync chain with my phone(I don’t know if it’s important but it happends just in my laptop, with and without a sync chain) and doesn’t brake the sync chain. I do this after reading a post with the same problem, i thought the problem was kwallet, i ask to chatgpt(I know is not a good resource) say me the same thing i thought, and said to chango to libsecret. After all, I have the same error.

So I think brave is beautiful, the best of chrome, without the worst of chrome, and a awesome ad blocker the main reason for use brave. But after all of this, I need to change to some other browser no chromium-base.

Thank you all the people that answer this post and try to help, I’ll still use brave in my phone

@PavgZD

Logged out reports, here at the Brave Community

Brave logs me out of all websites every few days (Cookies wiped, History remains)

Without having anything under "on exit" in brave://settings/clearBrowserData selected, brave logs out all websites and deletes all password information upon device restart

Discord logging out / Discord Dev Portal instant log out

Brave Logged Me Out Of Everything

All my history and logins are wiped after latest "profile" update

Got logged out, lost my passwords and bookmarks after update

Upgrades to Brave log me out of all sites

Brave browser kept logging out on a cache cleared website

Logged out of YouTube regularly

Windows Update Taken Out my Logins and Passwords

[Windows] Users being logged out of sites (when closing or after a period of time) #44789
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/44789

@PavgZD are you changing between desktop environments?

  • The encryption key will be added to a password store backend, which by default is inferred from the desktop environment you use (e.g. GNOME Libsecret for GNOME, KWallet 5 for KDE 5, etc.).
    • Changing between desktop environments that don’t default to the same password store backend (e.g. switching from GNOME to KDE) without letting Chromium know about it (via --password-store=gnome-libsecret in this example).

Thanks for replying, before I use GNOME and now Im using KDE, but I switch before installing brave, but I think now maybe is kwallet not working well after switching from Cinnamon to KDE to Gnome to KDE again. So I will try with something I see that maybe work, from Brave on Arch Linux logs me out of everything and removes my computer from sync chain when I restart PC - #3 by backflip
Or change to libsecret

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thank you for replying

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