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Steam crashing regularly

steamopen Steam clientDistro Family: Ubuntu
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#10218 · opened 2023-11-12 by andrewille · updated 2023-11-18 · 3 comments · github
Aandrewille 2023-11-12 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1698777785
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Linux Mint 21.2
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • GPU: Nvidia

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I keep having crashes every few minutes when I play CS2. This makes the game pretty much unplayable for me. It did not happen with other games so far though. I have uploaded the crashdump:
assert_20231112211302_4.dmp.zip

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2023-11-12 github

For reference, the attached minidump is a DUMP_REQUESTED in crashhandler.so coming from libsteamnetworkingsockets.so.

Jjupjohn 2023-11-13 github

There seems to be a general crashing issue with Steam on Linux at the moment (although the root causes could be different). I've noticed the following crash scenarios:

  • Crashing after the "logging in" splash screen
  • Crashing when interacting with context menus (e.g. right clicking on a profile to invite to a game, either moving the mouse to an item or even just the right click itself crashes)
  • Random crashes during games without interaction, usually stealing focus back when Steam restarts (annoyance)

All of these crashes exhibit the same behaviour of freezing the UI, window(s) going transparent when switching between workspaces, and Steam not recovering for a while until it eventually forces a restart of the application.

The worst I've seen it is double clicking someone to open a chat window, the app crashing and restarting, then the app crashing when I click on the re-opened chat window. All of this started to happen after the major UI rework so it feels tied to that. I'm happy to collect as many dumps as I can and dig through them to provide better technical info.

Hardware info: https://gist.github.com/jupjohn/825bb9ab6374b87d0bac2d32640a00c0

Ssylware 2023-11-18 github

I did notice the new crashes of the client [beta] here. The steamwebhelper is segfaulting in libcef.

Just happen a few minutes ago: the client crashing while I was starting cs2. But they seem random and rare here.

Nothing extracted yet.