Steam UI non functioning on NVIDIA 535.43.02-245 drivers

[eNTi]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): Beta latest (2023-06-10)
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Artix
• Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Steam is starting and I can play / start games with the tray icon but the UI won't open with the NVIDIA 535.43.02-245 drivers but it does with 530.41.03-241.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Install 535.43.02-245 drivers
2. Start steam
3. Try to open steam UI -> nothing happens
4. Install 530.41.03-241 drivers
5. Start steam
6. Open UI -> Window opens as expected.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @eNTi, this issue should also be mentioned to your video driver vendor.

[valgusk]

FYI: Same crash happens also on stable channel, but it does not affect ui or browser functionality.
Stack trace seems to end in libcef.so evenwhen it should be disabled.

Also on stable disabling gpu rendering helps, yet beta continues crashing.

[dylanmtaylor]

Also affects Ubuntu on the newest Nvidia 535 driver version, 535.54.03.

[dylanmtaylor]

FYI: Same crash happens also on stable channel, but it does not affect ui or browser functionality. Stack trace seems to end in libcef.so evenwhen it should be disabled.

Also on stable disabling gpu rendering helps, yet beta continues crashing.

It looks like this is related to some opcode issue (found in dmesg)

[ 350.674322] NVRM kgrctxUnmapAssociatedCtxBuffers_IMPL: TSG 19 Channel 20 shares a pVAS with channel 19
[ 351.540697] NVRM kgrctxUnmapAssociatedCtxBuffers_IMPL: TSG 22 Channel 23 shares a pVAS with channel 22
[ 351.892733] traps: Composite Threa[8876] trap invalid opcode ip:7f4c9c9db794 sp:7f4c837995c0 error:0 in libcef.so[7f4c9a0ef000+7770000]
[ 361.511007] traps: Composite Threa[9091] trap invalid opcode ip:7fa936fdb794 sp:7fa91e5865c0 error:0 in libcef.so[7fa9346ef000+7770000]
[ 371.815689] traps: Composite Threa[9270] trap invalid opcode ip:7ffa671db794 sp:7ffa51aab5c0 error:0 in libcef.so[7ffa648ef000+7770000]
[ 381.816901] traps: Composite Threa[9553] trap invalid opcode ip:7fb1f77db794 sp:7fb1ddf7a5c0 error:0 in libcef.so[7fb1f4eef000+7770000]
[ 391.837948] traps: Composite Threa[9728] trap invalid opcode ip:7f8e3b5db794 sp:7f8e223fb5c0 error:0 in libcef.so[7f8e38cef000+7770000]
[ 416.626461] NVRM kgrctxUnmapAssociatedCtxBuffers_IMPL: TSG 19 Channel 20 shares a pVAS with channel 19
[ 417.378363] NVRM kgrctxUnmapAssociatedCtxBuffers_IMPL: TSG 22 Channel 23 shares a pVAS with channel 22
[ 418.131041] traps: Composite Threa[10312] trap invalid opcode ip:7f53c2fdb794 sp:7f53aa6955c0 error:0 in libcef.so[7f53c06ef000+7770000]
[ 427.967580] traps: Composite Threa[10536] trap invalid opcode ip:7f7e07bdb794 sp:7f7df249b5c0 error:0 in libcef.so[7f7e052ef000+7770000]

[jarrard]

Guess we'll need to wait yet another 3 months for a fix...

EDIT: I'm having no issues so far with my 4090 under X11. Can't use WL due to HZ limit bug.

[ahuillet]

libcef.so is not a NVIDIA driver component. That problem seems like it may not be a NVIDIA driver bug.

[lay-by]

I have this exact same issue on Nvidia drivers 535.54.03 with Void Linux.

[eNTi]

Hello @eNTi, this issue should also be mentioned to your video driver vendor.

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/steam-for-linux-client-not-showing-ui-with-535-43-02-245/256178/9

[eNTi]

As written in the thread on the the nvidia developer forums, the latest release version of the steam client works for me on the 535.54.03-247 drivers and 6.3.9-273-tkg-bmq kernel.

[jrgiacone]

As written in the thread on the the nvidia developer forums, the latest release version of the steam client works for me on the 530.41.03-247 drivers and 6.3.9-273-tkg-bmq kernel.

that is not the latest version, the latest version is 535.54

[eNTi]

As written in the thread on the the nvidia developer forums, the latest release version of the steam client works for me on the 530.41.03-247 drivers and 6.3.9-273-tkg-bmq kernel.

that is not the latest version, the latest version is 535.54

I've corrected the version number in my post as I'm sure (due to the flickering issues) that I had the version you mentioned installed during testing (but most likely no longer during writing of the post).

[xaropizao]

I have this exact same issue on Nvidia drivers 535.54.03 with Void Linux.

i also had the same problem

[Elelerin]

This is also giving me issues, running Arch, using
steam -reset
or
steam -vgui
does not fix the issue. Steam will run maybe one in every twenty times until I restart my system and have to try again.

[Drogobo]

Yeah, my steam is cooked. I can't get anything working here on Arch.

[Infinixius]

+1 on Arch Linux. steam -vgui works fine for the time being.

[Drogobo]

Neither steam -vgui nor steam --reset work on my computer. The first one does work on the client, but games will not start.

[JackLeEmmerdeur]

@Drogobo

With 535-54.03-1/2, steam-native with the new UI manages to start only occasionally, the other half of the time only the tray-menu icon appears. If it starts, it is accompanied with two KDE error-report sad-smileys in the tray plasma-browser-integration-host closed unexpectedly. But at least it starts.

I can't seem to downgrade anymore because when executing mkinitcpio -P after the downgrade I got errors like ===> ERROR: module not found: nvidia now. I did this 3 times successfully and now downgrade is not working anymore. So I'll distance myself from below "guide".

Edit: I found out why the downgrade isn't working anymore. According to this thread, nvidia-dkms version 530-41-03 won't compile with the new kernel 6.4.1 anymore. Only with 6.3.9.

If you want the new Steam-UI to work consistently this is my current go-to method, which might be methodically incorrect and cargo-culty, because I don't really know what I'm doing. But it works pretty great. Proceed at your own risk:

sudo downgrade nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings lib32-nvidia-utils libxnvctrl

Select 530.41.03 for every package.

Run sudo mkinitcpio -P after that to be sure.

Put IgnorePkg = nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings lib32-nvidia-utils libxnvctrl lib32-amdvlk lib32-vulkan-icd-loader vulkan-headers vulkan-icd-loader vulkan-tools into /etc/pacman.conf.

Put VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json into /etc/environment.

[Drogobo]

Replying to #9577 (comment)

I got all the way to starting Steam, but then steam completely crashed X. I don't know what's up with it.

[dylanmtaylor]

This is still broken on the June 6th build of the Steam beta client

[JackLeEmmerdeur]

@dylanmtaylor Hey. Not for me anymore on 535.54.03-1/2 with Kernel 6.4.1-arch2-1. I really don't know why but the steps in this post helped. The steam-native client starts consistently now. I tried a few games and they run as good as before.

[Infinixius]

Not sure what happened, but now Steam works completely flawlessly for me on kernel 6.4.1-arch2-1 with an RTX 3060.

[dylanmtaylor]

@dylanmtaylor Hey. Not for me anymore on 535.54.03-1/2 with Kernel 6.4.1-arch2-1. I really don't know why but the steps in this post helped. The steam-native client starts consistently now. I tried a few games and they run as good as before.

Thank you so much! I did the rm -r ~/.cache/nvidia/GLCache/ and rm -r ~/.nv/ then started with steam -vgui and went to settings. I found the option to enable GPU acceleration in web interface and turned it off and then did the rm -r again. For whatever reason that fixed it for me and it's working now.

[eNTi]

Status: WORKSFORME

I'm currently running on
nvidia-dkms-tkg 535.54.03-247
and
Linux eNTi 6.4.1-273-tkg-bmq

Steam + hardware acceleration is working for both 6.4.1 and 6.3.11 for me now. No issues with flickering (I do have a dual monitor setup) or missing/empty windows any more. The only difference is that CSGO gives me a black screen with 6.4.1 but that's for another issue.

I won't close this ticket because it seems other still have issues.

[MarkDDR]

I can confirm the fix from #9780 (comment) works for me. Interestingly, I tried enabling GPU acceleration again and it initially worked after hitting the "Restart Now" button in the prompt but then failed to work after a normal exit and reopen. Thankfully using -vgui to turn the setting back off let me open the steam client normally again.

Happy to have the Notes feature back, and Friends as well since for whatever reason Friends doesn't connect for me anymore on -vgui

[Drogobo]

I wonder if I am actually facing the same issue as this would describe. Regular Steam crashes xorg for me, and steam -vgui just causes any game I play to crash xorg too.

[jonny64bit]

I've run into the same issue and applied #9577 (comment) however i didn't have the ~/.nv folder. Steam looks to be working fine now.

Kernal: 6.4.2-arch1-1
Driver verison: 535.54.03-7

[PercyDLR]

I'm on arch and tried removing the folders mentioned by dylan, but when running the steam -vgui command I get this:

steam.sh[42612]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[42612]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[42686]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[42612]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Startup - updater built Jul 10 2023 23:58:24
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/percy/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-vgui'
07/13 16:19:43 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1689034492)/tid(42750)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/percy/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] 1. http://media.steampowered.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Checking for update on startup
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Checking for available updates...
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Downloading manifest: http://media.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Manifest download: send request
[2023-07-13 16:19:43] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2023-07-13 16:19:44] Manifest download: finished
[2023-07-13 16:19:44] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1689034492, installed version 1689034492, existing pending version 0
[2023-07-13 16:19:44] Nothing to do
[2023-07-13 16:19:44] Verifying installation...
[2023-07-13 16:19:44] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2023-07-13 16:19:44] Verification complete
Loaded SDL version 3.0.0-1782-g214d5daa3
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf0487db0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf0486500
/home/percy/.themes/Layan-Dark/gtk-2.0/main.rc:790: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
/home/percy/.themes/Layan-Dark/gtk-2.0/hacks.rc:28: error: invalid string constant "normal_entry", expected valid string constant
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
ComputeStartupMode: forcing vgui via cli
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[42761]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/percy/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[42761]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
Failed to init SteamVR because it isn't installed
Assertion 'device' failed at src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.c:103, function device_get_tags_generation(). Aborting.
crash_20230713161945_28.dmp[42951]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20230713161945_28.dmp
/home/percy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: línea 798: 42750 Abortado                (`core' generado) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
crash_20230713161945_28.dmp[42951]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes                                                                       crash_20230713161945_28.dmp[42951]: response: CrashID=bp-0a5cf285-e370-4a34-bcb1-1e4732230713
crash_20230713161945_28.dmp[42951]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20230713161945_28.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-0a5cf285-e370-4a34-bcb1-1e4732230713''

Maybe this is an unrelated problem, because I haven't used steam in a while and now can't use it.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @PercyDLR, Assertion 'device' failed at src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.c:103, function device_get_tags_generation(). Aborting. is #9805.

[PercyDLR]

Oh thanks, that was exactly my problem. Sorry nontheless.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @eNTi, can you recheck if you're seeing this issue with the NVIDIA 535.86.05 driver release or newer?

[eNTi]

Status: WORKSFORME

I'm currently running on nvidia-dkms-tkg 535.54.03-247 and Linux eNTi 6.4.1-273-tkg-bmq

Steam + hardware acceleration is working for both 6.4.1 and 6.3.11 for me now. No issues with flickering (I do have a dual monitor setup) or missing/empty windows any more. The only difference is that CSGO gives me a black screen with 6.4.1 but that's for another issue.

I won't close this ticket because it seems other still have issues.

As stated above... this works for me. I don't have any issues currently on the 535.98-250 drivers on the 6.4.10-273-tkg-bmq kernel.

Others do though hence I didn't close the issue.

[kisak-valve]

Thanks, it looks like this was a video driver bug with how it handled its own on-disk shader cache in 535.43.XX and 535.54.03 that caused this issue. It was apparently quietly resolved in 535.86.05.

If anyone else is seeing a similar issue with a newer video driver, that should be pondered separately.

[gazhay]

Steam hasn't worked under 22.04 for me at all.

Tried Nvidia-545, nvidia-530 and nvidia-495.

Previously had been working fine.
Side note : if its a driver issue, I am not experiencing any other symptoms with any other applications on my system, just steam

[Oplkill]

The same thing in Mint 21.3. nvidia-545,535...
Tryed beta still the same effect.
Main steam window just dont drawing. i can press buttons there, but it completely invisible.
But friends&chat windows works well.
And for some reason if exit steam via "exit" menu it can crash the whole user session GUI. (cinnamon)