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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.
Maybe it still appears in
/var/lib/dpkg/status
? If it is, try deleting the entry from there.