steam interface freeze on archlinux
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Steam clientDistro Family: Arch
Hello,
Your NVidia graphics card looks to be configured for the nouveau drivers. It's not clear if this is intentional or just a default (non functional) driver setup that you ended up with. You may want to try the official NVidia drivers.
[2024-12-09 20:44:09] glx: failed to create dri3 screen
[2024-12-09 20:44:09] failed to load driver: nouveau
i saw that steam was abble to run with gamescope normaly gamescope -e -W 1920 -H 1080 -f -- steam
but today i have this issue with gamescope.
my nvidia graphics are not configured for nouveau drivers, so, no it's not intentional. I use nvidia with optimus, so steam should not be launch with my nvidia graphic card.
vulkaninfo --summary | grep driverInfo && nvidia-smi
driverInfo = 565.77
driverInfo = Mesa 24.3.3-arch1.1
Wed Jan 8 07:52:24 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 565.77 Driver Version: 565.77 CUDA Version: 12.7 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce MX150 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 30C P0 N/A / 5001W | 6MiB / 4096MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 664 G /usr/lib/Xorg 4MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Today the behavior of steam changed. I can launch my games with lutris, steam seem to work in background because i can see the icon of steam appear in the notification's bar, and left click on work, so i can quit steam by using it.
the freeze behavior change too a little. the desktop background on the steam window's border is not captured in the windows
steam-logs.tar.gz
steam SIGABRT
steam.sh[2330735]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[2330735]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[2330782]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[2330735]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] Startup - updater built Dec 2 2024 21:26:10
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened'
01/08 08:03:10 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
01/08 08:03:10 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1733265492)/tid(2330845)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] Checking for update on startup
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] Checking for available updates...
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] Manifest download: send request
[2025-01-08 08:03:10] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2025-01-08 08:03:11] Manifest download: finished
[2025-01-08 08:03:11] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1733265492, installed version 1733265492, existing pending version 0
[2025-01-08 08:03:11] Nothing to do
[2025-01-08 08:03:11] Verifying installation...
[2025-01-08 08:03:11] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2025-01-08 08:03:11] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/logs
/usr/share/themes/Arc-Dark/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1090: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
/usr/share/themes/Arc-Dark/gtk-2.0/apps.rc:91: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xdcd05dc0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xdcd04500
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
steamwebhelper.sh[2330917]: Using supervisor /home/powabanga/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor
steamwebhelper.sh[2330917]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap sniper steam runtime via /home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper.sh
steamwebhelper.sh[2330917]: Using CEF sandbox \(try with -no-cef-sandbox if this fails\)
steamwebhelper.sh[2330917]: Starting steamwebhelper with Sniper steam runtime at /home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper/_v2-entry-point
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 2331008
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
exec ./steamwebhelper -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=2330845 -buildid=1733265492 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=0 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 -no-restart-on-ui-mode-change --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --enable-features=PlatformHEVCDecoderSupport --disable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC
Desktop state changed: desktop: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1920,1080 } primary: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1920,1080 }
Caching cursor image for , size 9x16, serial 423, cache size = 0
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 200 apps
pressure-vessel-adverb[2331781]: E: Failed to execute child process “/games/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/pressure-vessel/bin/steam-runtime-launcher-interface-0” (No such file or directory)
pressure-vessel-adverb[2331900]: E: Failed to execute child process “/games/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/pressure-vessel/bin/steam-runtime-launcher-interface-0” (No such file or directory)
pressure-vessel-adverb[2332028]: E: Failed to execute child process “/games/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/pressure-vessel/bin/steam-runtime-launcher-interface-0” (No such file or directory)
pressure-vessel-adverb[2332146]: E: Failed to execute child process “/games/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/pressure-vessel/bin/steam-runtime-launcher-interface-0” (No such file or directory)
fsync: up and running.
wine: Using setpriority to control niceness in the [-10,10] range
Initializing D3D11.
Unable to read VR Path Registry from C:\users\steamuser\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/shader_cache_temp_dir_d3d11_64/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
fsync: up and running.
wine: Using setpriority to control niceness in the [-10,10] range
Initializing D3D12.
Unable to read VR Path Registry from C:\users\steamuser\AppData\Local\openvr\openvrpaths.vrpath
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/home/powabanga/.local/share/Steam/shader_cache_temp_dir_d3d12_64/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
[2025-01-08 08:05:13] Background update loop checking for update. . .
[2025-01-08 08:05:13] Checking for available updates...
[2025-01-08 08:05:13] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2025-01-08 08:05:13] Manifest download: send request
[2025-01-08 08:05:13] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2025-01-08 08:05:13] Manifest download: finished
[2025-01-08 08:05:13] Download skipped by HTTP 304 Not Modified
[2025-01-08 08:05:13] Nothing to do
[2025-01-08 08:18:10] Shutdown
What is strange, is that i realise that steam interface work well if i launch my games with lutris, i do not know why !
it seem this is fixed
Upstream links
- ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/1692x1 2025-01
Your system information
Steam client version (build number or date):
steam 1.0.0.81-2
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu):
Archlinux
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
Console output
GPU: Nvidia/Intel/AMD
Intel (integrated), Nvidia (optimus)
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
when i start steam, the interface capture my desktop, and freeze whitout showing the steam interface. I can rezize or maximize the title bar by double clicking on the title bar ( if you can imagine it)
![Screen shot showing what happen]()
Steps for reproducing this issue:
I do not know, just start steam, but I am on Open box desktop, and this do not happen if i run steam in gamescope
gamescope -e -W 1920 -H 1080 -f -- steamIf i remove .local/share/Steam, it work again normal, for a time, and i lost for sure all my steam configuration X(
I am not able to find what change do exactly this, maybe simply launch steam with gamescope one time, and after this happen again... If i find more about the cause of this i will send a new message here.