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[BUG] Failed to connect to window manager

steamvrclosed appid 497bug
ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux#850 · opened 2025-12-05 by Martmists-GH · updated 2025-12-05 · 1 comments · github · game page · search this game
MMartmists-GH 2025-12-05 github

Describe the bug
SteamVR fails to connect to the window manager after a recent system update.

  • Happens with both SteamVR Beta and SteamVR Stable
  • Happens with both Steam Native and Steam Runtime

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Launch Steam
  2. Start SteamVR
  3. See error

Expected behavior
SteamVR works like it did a few weeks ago

System Information (please complete the following information):
Please use the latest Steam beta client and SteamVR beta for your bug reports!

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1763795278 (Sat, Nov 22 8:00 AM UTC -08:00)
  • SteamVR version: 1.14.3
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
  • Steam runtime diagnostics: https://pastebin.com/fyPyBJPD
  • Steam and SteamVR logs:
  • Minidumps:

Screenshots
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Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-12-05 github

Hello @Martmists-GH, [Info] - Swapchain failed to be created: fffffffc in vrcompositor.txt and mesa 25.3.1 noted in console-linux.txt points towards the issue being tracked at #836.

Closing in favor of the older issue report.

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