Steam crashes on launch - fresh install

[btshrewsbury]

steel@steel-cyberPower:~$ steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 12.10 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
/home/steel/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 1225 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
mv: cannot stat `/home/steel/.steam/registry.vdf': No such file or directory
Installing bootstrap /home/steel/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Reset complete!
Restarting Steam by request...
Running Steam on ubuntu 12.10 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/steel/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
/home/steel/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 1357 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@

[gdrewb-valve]

Can you run 'DEBUGGER=gdb steam' instead of plain 'steam' and see if it breaks in gdb? Then post the first few stack frames so that we can see where the problem is happening.

[btshrewsbury]

It seems to be relaunching itself after I exit gdb. Take a look below:

steel@steel-cyberPower:~/Antichamber$ DEBUGGER=gdb steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 12.10 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.5-ubuntu
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Reading symbols from /home/steel/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) start
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x804fea6
Starting program: /home/steel/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".

Temporary breakpoint 1, 0x0804fea6 in main ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
The program no longer exists.
(gdb) quit
mv: cannot stat `/home/steel/.steam/registry.vdf': No such file or directory
Installing bootstrap /home/steel/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Reset complete!
Restarting Steam by request...
Running Steam on ubuntu 12.10 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/steel/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
/home/steel/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 17392 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

[gdrewb-valve]

Are you giving the input 'start' and 'c'? Can you do a 'bt' when you hit the SIGSEGV?

[btshrewsbury]

I'm supplying the start and continue commands. Can't believe I forget to print out the stack:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#1 0xf7d42eb8 in pthread_once () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xf72d890e in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1
#3 0xf72d90a2 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1
#4 0xf7feae49 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#5 0xf7feaf94 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#6 0xf7feefa6 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#7 0xf7feaccf in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#8 0xf7fee7f4 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#9 0xf7e38be9 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
#10 0xf7feaccf in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#11 0xf7e3933a in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
#12 0xf7e38c97 in dlopen () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
#13 0x08079470 in LoadGlFuncs(void**) ()
#14 0x0807e624 in CBaseLinuxUpdateUI::BaseCreateWindow() ()
#15 0x0807f014 in CXWindowsUpdateUI::BCreateWindow() ()
#16 0x080501d4 in main ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#1 0xf7d45fdc in __libc_sigaction () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xf7d460c3 in sigaction () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#3 0xf7397dc6 in ?? () from /home/steel/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/crashhandler.so
#4
#5 0x00000000 in ?? ()
#6 0xf7d42eb8 in pthread_once () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
#7 0xf72d890e in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1
#8 0xf72d90a2 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1
#9 0xf7feae49 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#10 0xf7feaf94 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#11 0xf7feefa6 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#12 0xf7feaccf in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#13 0xf7fee7f4 in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#14 0xf7e38be9 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
#15 0xf7feaccf in ?? () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#16 0xf7e3933a in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
#17 0xf7e38c97 in dlopen () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
#18 0x08079470 in LoadGlFuncs(void**) ()
#19 0x0807e624 in CBaseLinuxUpdateUI::BaseCreateWindow() ()
#20 0x0807f014 in CXWindowsUpdateUI::BCreateWindow() ()
#21 0x080501d4 in main ()
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
The program no longer exists.
(gdb)

[gdrewb-valve]

That's not a great stack but it appears that the crash is in OpenGL. What video driver are you running? Hopefully it's something you can update to see if it's a driver bug.

[btshrewsbury]

nvidia-settings gets me Nvidia driver 319.60. Looks like the latest is 331.49. I'll try updating tomorrow. Thank you for the help and I'll follow up once I try updating the driver.

[btshrewsbury]

works great, thank you for the help