Don't know if this is related, but my Steam client also keeps crashing since the latest update (January 20th). In addition to the constant log spam in the attached ~/.steam/steam/logs/{webhelper,console_log,console-linux,webhelper-linux}.txt, I'm also getting these in /var/log/messages:
Jan 22 06:37:07 disclosure assert_20250122063707_27.dmp[1734]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/assert_20250122063707_27.dmp
Jan 22 06:37:15 disclosure assert_20250122063707_27.dmp[1734]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
Jan 22 06:37:15 disclosure assert_20250122063707_27.dmp[1734]: response: CrashID=bp-9784b1c5-4522-4112-a989-61fb22250121
Jan 22 06:37:15 disclosure assert_20250122063707_27.dmp[1734]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250122063707_27.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-9784b1c5-4522-4112-a989-61fb22250121''
Jan 22 06:37:40 disclosure assert_20250122063740_36.dmp[3507]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/assert_20250122063740_36.dmp
Jan 22 06:37:46 disclosure assert_20250122063740_36.dmp[3507]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
Jan 22 06:37:46 disclosure assert_20250122063740_36.dmp[3507]: response: CrashID=bp-e821abce-bded-43e1-a007-c348d2250121
Jan 22 06:37:46 disclosure assert_20250122063740_36.dmp[3507]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250122063740_36.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-e821abce-bded-43e1-a007-c348d2250121''
Jan 22 16:28:55 disclosure kernel: traps: Compositor[24092] trap invalid opcode ip:7fb9091c455f sp:7fb8f37fa7b0 error:0 in libcef.so[7fb904ded000+a36d000]
Jan 22 16:29:03 disclosure assert_20250122162903_40.dmp[23220]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/assert_20250122162903_40.dmp
Jan 22 16:29:06 disclosure assert_20250122162903_40.dmp[23220]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
Jan 22 16:29:06 disclosure assert_20250122162903_40.dmp[23220]: response: CrashID=bp-97f8cfb2-ab6d-49fb-b23c-53d742250122
Jan 22 16:29:06 disclosure assert_20250122162903_40.dmp[23220]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250122162903_40.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-97f8cfb2-ab6d-49fb-b23c-53d742250122''
Jan 22 16:44:22 disclosure kernel: traps: Compositor[23234] trap invalid opcode ip:7fa948bc455f sp:7fa932ff97b0 error:0 in libcef.so[7fa9447ed000+a36d000]
Jan 22 17:07:00 disclosure kernel: traps: Compositor[4534] trap invalid opcode ip:7fb7f25c455f sp:7fb7e0bf67b0 error:0 in libcef.so[7fb7ee1ed000+a36d000]
Jan 22 17:48:13 disclosure kernel: traps: Compositor[9719] trap invalid opcode ip:7fcfa8fc455f sp:7fcf92ff97b0 error:0 in libcef.so[7fcfa4bed000+a36d000]
Jan 22 18:00:48 disclosure kernel: traps: Compositor[5089] trap invalid opcode ip:7fbe9e5c455f sp:7fbe8d5f77b0 error:0 in libcef.so[7fbe9a1ed000+a36d000]
Jan 22 18:12:06 disclosure kernel: traps: Compositor[10876] trap invalid opcode ip:7f39145c455f sp:7f38fe7f87b0 error:0 in libcef.so[7f39101ed000+a36d000]
Jan 22 20:55:38 disclosure kernel: traps: Compositor[18148] trap invalid opcode ip:7fa08b3c455f sp:7fa07a3f77b0 error:0 in libcef.so[7fa086fed000+a36d000]
Jan 22 20:55:41 disclosure assert_20250122205541_40.dmp[14797]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) /tmp/dumps/assert_20250122205541_40.dmp
Jan 22 20:55:50 disclosure assert_20250122205541_40.dmp[14797]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
Jan 22 20:55:50 disclosure assert_20250122205541_40.dmp[14797]: response: CrashID=bp-56178f6a-4d72-4936-b88b-05efa2250122
Jan 22 20:55:50 disclosure assert_20250122205541_40.dmp[14797]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250122205541_40.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-56178f6a-4d72-4936-b88b-05efa2250122''
Jan 22 21:06:46 disclosure kernel: traps: Compositor[14815] trap invalid opcode ip:7f01d63c455f sp:7f01c53f77b0 error:0 in libcef.so[7f01d1fed000+a36d000]
I'm on Slackware64-15.0, GNOME-47, kernel 6.6.73, NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 550.144.03. Given the "invalid opcode" traps, you might be interested in my CPU make & model:
[zlatko@disclosure:~]$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
CPU family: 6
Model: 42
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 7
CPU max MHz: 3800,0000
CPU min MHz: 1600,0000
BogoMIPS: 6784.55
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpu
id aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm epb pti tpr_shadow flexpriority ept vpid xsaveopt dtherm ida a
rat pln pts vnmi
Virtualization features:
Virtualization: VT-x
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 128 KiB (4 instances)
L1i: 128 KiB (4 instances)
L2: 1 MiB (4 instances)
L3: 8 MiB (1 instance)
Vulnerabilities:
Gather data sampling: Not affected
Itlb multihit: KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled
L1tf: Mitigation; PTE Inversion; VMX conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Mds: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable
Meltdown: Mitigation; PTI
Mmio stale data: Unknown: No mitigations
Reg file data sampling: Not affected
Retbleed: Not affected
Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Vulnerable
Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Spectre v2: Mitigation; Retpolines; STIBP disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected; BHI Not affected
Srbds: Not affected
Tsx async abort: Not affected
Yes, these still exist ... why do you ask? 🤔 🤷 😉 If you need the remaining contents of ~/.steam/steam/logs/ and/or /tmp/dumps/ as well, please let me know.
Thanks for listening 🙂
Thomas
console-linux.txt
console_log.txt
webhelper.txt
webhelper-linux.txt
Nothing extracted yet.
There are two outcomes of the Steam crashes:
I am curious why SIGTRAP shows up.
I have an out-of-process dump but I don't know if that helps.