Latest beta version segfaults on launch

[Tea23]

Having just updated to the latest beta version, Steam now segfaults on launch:

[joe@corbyn ~]$ steam
/home/joe/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 376: 24528 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Installing bootstrap /home/joe/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
/home/joe/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 169: 24532 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) tar xf "$STEAMBOOTSTRAPARCHIVE"

My distribution is a fully updated Arch Linux x86_64 with the latest kernel.

[scottlu]

Please try running this way:

$ STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam

And let us know what happens. Thanks.

[Tea23]

Running it with STEAM_RUNTIME=0 works, yep.

Interesting. I'm not sure what this new runtime looks like, but it doesn't look too Arch friendly right now, at least.

[scottlu]

Thanks for trying this out quickly.

[TShadwell]

This also fixes the problem for me on Arch Linux.

[xpander69]

same here on Arch x64

/home/xpander/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 376: 7772 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Installing bootstrap /home/xpander/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
/home/xpander/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 169: 7776 Segmentation fault (core dumped) tar xf "$STEAMBOOTSTRAPARCHIVE"

[ghost]

Same on Debian x86:
/home/migbac/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh : ligne 376 : 9034 Erreur de segmentation $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@" Installing bootstrap /home/migbac/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz /home/migbac/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh : ligne 169 : 9037 Erreur de segmentation tar xf "$STEAMBOOTSTRAPARCHIVE"

and STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam works.

[scottlu]

We're working on an update to fix this.

[scottlu]

Ok, update done. Please select Steam->Check for Steam Client Updates... to get the fix.

Thanks for the quick report.

[kevincox]

Confirmed working.

[slouken]

Thanks everyone!

[slouken]

Can anyone who was experiencing this bug test a new workaround? This should give all the benefits of the steam runtime for systems with compatible libc.

cd ~/steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64
rm -v cat installed/libc6*
cd ../i386
rm -v cat installed/libc6*
STEAM_RUNTIME=1 steam

[Zenitur]

Confirm. Gentoo, x86_64

$ LC_ALL=en_EN.UTF-8 SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa steam
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_EN.UTF-8)
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_EN.UTF-8)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/steamdeps", line 309, in
status = main( *sys.argv[1:] )
File "/usr/bin/steamdeps", line 268, in main
process = subprocess.Popen( ['dpkg', '-l'] + list( packages.keys() ), stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE )
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in init
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1228, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
/data/Steam-linux/steam.sh: line 376: 17391 Segmentation fault $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Installing bootstrap /data/Steam-linux/bootstrap.tar.xz
/data/Steam-linux/steam.sh: line 169: 17394 Segmentation fault tar xf "$STEAMBOOTSTRAPARCHIVE"
$

[TShadwell]

Slouken, I tried to do what you suggested, reading from the thread notifications github sent me in email, and because backticks are code-tags in markdown I ended up running rm -v cat installed/libc6*, which removed the file I should've been cating; how do I get the contents of that file back?

Edit: I just resinstalled steam and it worked, I assume that has the same effect anyway.

Edit: Trying to reinstall games, selecting my old ~/Steam directory (or anywhere else for that matter) reports New steam library folder must be on a filesystem mounted with execute permissions, causing disk space available to be 0MB.

[Tea23]

slouken: Your workaround seems to have worked for me.

[xpander69]

Soluken's workaround doesnt seem to work for me on Arch x86_64 with all the upgrades done

getting now:

STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled by the user
./steam.sh: line 403: 32345 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Installing bootstrap /home/xpander/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1359600063_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1359600063_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1359600063_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1359600063_client)
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled by the user
/home/xpander/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 403: 32452 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

[AnAkkk]

Still crashing for me.

[kevincox]

@slouken I think these are the commands he wants run:

cd ~/steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64
rm -v `cat installed/libc6*`
cd ../i386
rm -v `cat installed/libc6*`
STEAM_RUNTIME=1 steam

[kevincox]

Works for me on arch 64 up-to-date.

If you don't mind, what is this runtime? Is it using the system libraries rather than a version that steam has downloaded for itself?

[RunningDroid]

Works for me on an up-to-date Arch64

@xpander69: Do you have lib32-glibc?

[xpander69]

i do have lib32-glibc 2.17-2

[kevincox]

Same version I have. Do you want to post a pastebin of pacman -Ssq. I want to see if I have any relevant packages that you don't.

[xpander69]

thats a huge list of packages i have installed :)
http://pastebin.com/hXdt5BJ2

[kevincox]

Oops, I'm stupid and typed the wrong command. That was all packages in your repos. Try this one.

pacman -Qsq

[xpander69]

here u go
http://pastebin.com/FcguwrVJ

[kevincox]

Here are the packages that I have that you don't. I'm just going to take a look and see if any are important.

http://pastebin.com/Egiw1UDk

[Tea23]

@anakin1 One workaround you can do for this is to add export STEAM_RUNTIME=0 to the top of /usr/bin/steam (obviously after the crunchbang!!)

[AnAkkk]

I know, I'm just wondering why Steam starts with STEAM_RUNTIME=0 for some people and it's still 1 for me.

[slouken]

This should be fixed in the latest update. Please let me know if that's not the case.

[Tea23]

Yep looks like it's working now. Thanks very much slouken!

[slouken]

You're welcome! :)

[ifohancroft]

I have a fresh install of Fedora 18 x86_64 and that doesn't fix it for me (but I also have problems with wine running any games or windows steam so the problem maybe be in me):

$ steam
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
/home/Acidcore/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 337: 2316 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Installing bootstrap /home/Acidcore/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
/home/Acidcore/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 337: 2364 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

$ STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
/home/Acidcore/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 337: 2413 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Installing bootstrap /home/Acidcore/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
/home/Acidcore/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 337: 2461 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

P.S. Steam is latest (just downloaded from steampowered.com)

P.S. I solved the problem. It was a few hours old installation of the distro so I had nothing to lose if I re-install it so I did and now everything works fine. What I did different though: I didn't install the nvidia drivers right away. First I installed everything else on my system and steam and wine and other games then tried if they are running (they were) and then installed the driver. So I guess by not installing the driver right away I got some mesa package installed that I was missing previously or something.

[brootos]

Linux linuxlife 3.8.0-1-generic #5-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 18 15:23:23 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

ubuntu 13.04 x64 (not relise, dealy build)

brootos@linuxlife:~$ steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 13.04
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically on ubuntu
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1359765526_client)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1359765526_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1359765526_client)
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 14750 with name 0eBlobRegistryMutex_85D64A73FC985A5856A3E900C9F668C7
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 14750 with name 0eBlobRegistrySignal_85D64A73FC985A5856A3E900C9F668C7
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20130204155544_1.dmp
success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-6403cf27-ccaa-47c1-b05f-161422130204
/home/brotoos/Steam/steam.sh: строка 443: 14931 Ошибка сегментирования $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

run it with STEAM_RUNTIME=1 and STEAM_RUNTIME=1 not work me. See up.

Update:

Fix

remove folders and steam

sudo apt-get purge steam
sudo apt-get purge steam*

remove folders

.steam
Steam

install steam

wget -c http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.deb
sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

Steam work!

[xpander69]

it now works fine on Arch x64
and even try icon shows up (tho default icon, not the steam one)

[kevincox]

I don't get the steam icon either. I thought it was just me. (There is steam in the systray but not the steam logo).

[kevincox]

To fix the systray issue see #1190.

[vixus0]

@xpander69: Is that after a Steam update or by reinstalling?

[xpander69]

no reinstall. just the latest update, which came yesterday i think or day before that

[vixus0]

ok, because the update I performed day before was what broke Steam for me.

On 4 February 2013 16:09, xpander69 notifications@github.com wrote:

no reinstall. just the latest update, which came yesterday i think or day
before that

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• Anshul

[xpander69]

1st of Feb update it seems
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screenshot%20from%202013-02-04%2018%3A17%3A44.png

its now STEAM_RUNTIME=1 by default on arch as well.

[vixus0]

Is that the one that got the overlay working? That's when I started getting
crashes in-game on my nvidia GPU (nothing to do with the overlay) and
couldn't even get Steam started on the Intel GPU.

On 4 February 2013 16:20, xpander69 notifications@github.com wrote:

1st of Feb update it seems

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28788188/Screenshot%20from%202013-02-04%2018%3A17%3A44.png

its now STEAM_RUNTIME=1 by default on arch as well.

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• Anshul

[xpander69]

hmm, overlay worked all the time for me afaik. except few games.
so i dont really know. i think the update was to fix the RUNTIME=1 issue
on some distros.
it defaulted to RUNTIME=0 before that on non-ubuntu distros.

On 02/04/2013 06:34 PM, vixus0 wrote:

Is that the one that got the overlay working? That's when I started
getting
crashes in-game on my nvidia GPU (nothing to do with the overlay) and
couldn't even get Steam started on the Intel GPU.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
#1075 (comment).

[vixus0]

ok, guess it won't fix my crashes then. shame, i'll have to keep playing on
wine.. :(

On 4 February 2013 16:38, xpander69 notifications@github.com wrote:

hmm, overlay worked all the time for me afaik. except few games.
so i dont really know. i think the update was to fix the RUNTIME=1 issue
on some distros.
it defaulted to RUNTIME=0 before that on non-ubuntu distros.

On 02/04/2013 06:34 PM, vixus0 wrote:

Is that the one that got the overlay working? That's when I started
getting
crashes in-game on my nvidia GPU (nothing to do with the overlay) and
couldn't even get Steam started on the Intel GPU.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
<
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1075#issuecomment-13085371>.

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• Anshul

[xpander69]

ok the bug is back again. STEAM_RUNTIME=1 doesnt run anymore and segfaults.
after todays update

[kevincox]

See #1468

[vixus0]

Just to say, this update never broke steam for me. I had applied the first steam-runtime-update.sh patch however.

Arch 64-bit: 3.7.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 4 09:15:13 CET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux