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Steamwebhelper crashes ONLY on dwm

steamclosed Window managerDistro Family: ArchWeb Component
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#10356 · opened 2024-01-06 by Ucxb · updated 2024-01-20 · 2 comments · github
UUcxb 2024-01-06 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Latest 01/06/24

  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux

  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No

  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

  • Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]
    steam-logs.tar.gz

  • GPU: Nvidia/Intel/AMD: NVIDIA

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Steamwebhelper crashes and the client refuses to open ONLY on dwm. I believe this issue to be related to an error in the xserver as the webhelper.txt is spammed with the following:

"X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)"
"Major opcode of failed request: 15 (X_QueryTree)"
"Resource id in failed request: 0x2800004"
"Serial number of failed request: 11809"

Additionally, I have also reinstalled this system, however I have used the same dwm configuration. I am also wondering if this issue could be related to steamcmd and dedicated servers. When I initially installed this new system on my new drive, Steam functioned perfectly. When I installed steamcmd and installed a dedicated server on my system, these issues cropped up out of nowhere. The same configuration also works on my laptop without issue, there are no issues with Steam on the laptop (it does not have steamcmd or a dedicated server installed).
Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist
I expected Steam to open and function properly., however it did not open and I only received the error message "steamwebhelper, a critical Steam component, is not responding. The Steam UI will not be usable. Click here for more information."

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Use dwm (optionally, install steamcmd and install and run a dedicated server, my system had a Project Zomboid server installed and running through steamcmd)
  2. Open Steam
  3. Observe as steamwebhelper crashes
UUcxb 2024-01-10 github

Update: Adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib" appears to fix the issue...sometimes.

UUcxb 2024-01-20 github

Update: Not sure what I did or if there was an update, but Steam works fine now.

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