I ran apt upgrade on my laptop today after not using it for a couple of weeks, the main thing was upgrade of NVIDIA driver to 545.29.06, but there was also some change on one of the steam-lib packages (I’m using the Steam deb version, not flatpak). Ever since upgrading, Steam crashes on start.

I tried searching for recently reported issues with the Steam Linux client but can’t find anything. Is this a known issue? Any suggestions on what I can check/do?

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Here’s the segfault from syslog, I have a bunch of core files but don’t know if I can get anything useful from them.

Dec  6 17:13:30 computer steam.desktop[5200]: steam.sh[5200]: Running Steam on pop 22.04 64-bit
Dec  6 17:13:30 computer steam.desktop[5200]: steam.sh[5200]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Dec  6 17:13:30 computer steam.desktop[5321]: setup.sh[5321]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
Dec  6 17:13:31 computer steam.desktop[5200]: steam.sh[5200]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
Dec  6 17:13:31 computer steam.desktop[5392]: 12/06 17:13:31 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1701289036)/tid(5392)
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer steam.desktop[5392]: /home/user/.themes/Sweet-Dark-v40/gtk-2.0/main.rc:727: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer steam.desktop[5392]: /home/user/.themes/Sweet-Dark-v40/gtk-2.0/apps/chrome.rc:50: error: invalid string constant "button", expected valid string constant
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer steam.desktop[5392]: /home/user/.themes/Sweet-Dark-v40/gtk-2.0/apps/xfce.rc:79: error: invalid string constant "entry", expected valid string constant
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer steam.desktop[5404]: crash_20231206171333_5.dmp[5404]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer steam.desktop[5404]: /tmp/dumps/crash_20231206171333_5.dmp
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer crash_20231206171333_5.dmp[5404]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)#012/tmp/dumps/crash_20231206171333_5.dmp
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer kernel: [   72.142532] show_signal_msg: 19 callbacks suppressed
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer kernel: [   72.142534] steam[5392]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000f7ab5045 sp 00000000fffb3e8c error 4 in libc.so.6[f7a20000+182000] likely on CPU 4 (core 4, socket 0)
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer kernel: [   72.142544] Code: 40 38 ca 0f 84 4d 01 00 00 80 f9 00 0f 84 71 01 00 00 40 4f 75 14 8a 08 38 ca 0f 84 36 01 00 00 80 f9 00 0f 84 5a 01 00 00 40 <8b> 08 bd ff fe fe fe bf ff fe fe fe 01 cd 31 cd 01 cf 8d 40 04 0f
Dec  6 17:13:33 computer steam.desktop[5200]: /home/user/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 798:  5392 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
Dec  6 17:13:35 computer steam.desktop[5404]: crash_20231206171333_5.dmp[5404]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
Dec  6 17:13:35 computer steam.desktop[5404]: crash_20231206171333_5.dmp[5404]: response: CrashID=bp-11a3ce92-de87-49ca-8b7c-7e1622231206
Dec  6 17:13:35 computer steam.desktop[5404]: crash_20231206171333_5.dmp[5404]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20231206171333_5.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-11a3ce92-de87-49ca-8b7c-7e1622231206''
Dec  6 17:13:35 computer crash_20231206171333_5.dmp[5404]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
Dec  6 17:13:35 computer crash_20231206171333_5.dmp[5404]: response: CrashID=bp-11a3ce92-de87-49ca-8b7c-7e1622231206
Dec  6 17:13:35 computer crash_20231206171333_5.dmp[5404]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20231206171333_5.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-11a3ce92-de87-49ca-8b7c-7e1622231206''
Dec  6 17:13:35 computer systemd[3855]: app-gnome-steam-5200.scope: Consumed 1.187s CPU time.
  • canadaduane@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Is it possible your Sweet-Dark-v40 theme is interacting poorly with Steam here? It seems to crash right after that unexpected identifier 'direction' and subsequent errors. Maybe try switching themes and see if it has any effect?

    • RandomChainOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Turns out it was a problem with the Steam client itself, I think it’s because the steam:i386 package isn’t used anymore and it’s now steam-installer, but something with the steam update didn’t run correctly. After purging all the old steam packages and reinstalling from Pop Shop it started running again.