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Coredump in Linux Mint

steamclosed Distro Family: Ubuntu
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11732 · opened 2025-02-07 by ikester8 · updated 2025-02-07 · 3 comments · github
Iikester8 2025-02-07 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 2025-02-06
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Linux Mint
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • GPU: Nvidia

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Hi, having trouble logging into Steam on Linux Mint. I followed some earlier instructions to upgrade and reinstall Steam, but I still get the error.

Output of steam: 
steam.sh[587518]: Running Steam on linuxmint 22.1 64-bit
steam.sh[587518]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[587559]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[587518]: Using supervisor /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor
steam.sh[587518]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Startup - updater built Feb 7 2025 00:16:31
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' '-nominidumps' '-nobreakpad'
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Opted in to client beta 'publicbeta' via beta file
You are in the 'publicbeta' client beta.
02/06 21:07:45 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
02/06 21:07:45 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1738889325)/tid(587636)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com/, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Checking for update on startup
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Checking for available updates...
[ 0%] Checking for available updates...
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Manifest download: send request
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Manifest download: finished
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Download skipped: /steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12 version 1738889325, installed version 1738889325, existing pending version 0
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Nothing to do
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Verifying installation...
[----] Verifying installation...
[2025-02-06 21:07:45] Verifying all executable checksums
[2025-02-06 21:07:46] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo

Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/user/.local/share/Steam/logs

XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xeab9a860
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xeab98fc0
/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Blue/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1053: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
crash_20250206210746_5.dmp[587652]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20250206210746_5.dmp
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 946: 587636 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

Following other instructions, I analyzed the coredump using gdb:

coredumpctl gdb steam 
PID: 587636 (steam)
UID: 1000 (user)
GID: 1000 (user)
Signal: 11 (SEGV)
Timestamp: Thu 2025-02-06 21:07:46 EST (12min ago)
Command Line: /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -srt-logger-opened -nominidumps -nobreakpad
Executable: /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/app.slice/app-org.gnome.Terminal.slice/vte-spawn-69cbda8d-9e8c-4799-bbd8-8e80b631a911.scope
Unit: [email protected]
User Unit: vte-spawn-69cbda8d-9e8c-4799-bbd8-8e80b631a911.scope
Slice: user-1000.slice
Owner UID: 1000 (user)
Boot ID: 5cbefcb04cdd4a059d12007f57c9bc72
Machine ID: 10b971ac1a304176906b1f6a23827476
Hostname: emperor
Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.steam.1000.5cbefcb04cdd4a059d12007f57c9bc72.587636.1738894066000000.zst (present)
Size on Disk: 18.7M
Message: Process 587636 (steam) of user 1000 dumped core.

Module libudev.so.1 from deb systemd-255.4-1ubuntu8.5.i386
Module libzstd.so.1 from deb libzstd-1.5.5+dfsg2-2build1.1.i386
Module libsystemd.so.0 from deb systemd-255.4-1ubuntu8.5.i386
Module libgcc_s.so.1 from deb gcc-14-14.2.0-4ubuntu2~24.04.i386
Stack trace of thread 587636:
#0 0x00000000eb337fe1 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xbbfe1)
#1 0x00000000eac2b658 n/a (libX11.so.6 + 0x25658)
#2 0x00000000ff8e4568 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#3 0x00000000e313c0cc n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so + 0xaf0cc)
#4 0x00000000e314c87f n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so + 0xbf87f)
#5 0x00000000e90b4c7a n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so + 0x17d3c7a)
#6 0x00000000e897692c n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamui.so + 0x109592c)
#7 0x000000005f4d084e n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x1f384e)
#8 0x000000005f4d1c04 n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x1f4c04)
#9 0x000000005f4d1f45 n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x1f4f45)
ELF object binary architecture: Intel 80386

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Reading symbols from /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam...
(No debugging symbols found in /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam)
[New LWP 587636]
[New LWP 587637]
[New LWP 587638]
[New LWP 587647]
[New LWP 587646]

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbrotlidec.so.1

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbrotlicommon.so.1

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpulse.so.0

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libvdpau.so.1

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-16.1.so

warning: could not find '.gnu_debugaltlink' file for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcap.so.2
--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -srt-logger-opened -nominidump'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0xeb337fe1 in ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0xeb277b80 (LWP 587636))]

OK, so I know which file(s) may be the problem, but what should I do to correct it?

Thanks!

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. run steam
Mmichelvaleferreira 2025-02-07 github
I'm having a similar issue at the same line in debian 12 (AMD GPU). The difference is highlighted in bold

$ steam
steam.sh[4623]: Running Steam on debian 12 64-bit
steam.sh[4623]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[4677]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[4623]: Log already open
steam.sh[4623]: Using supervisor /home/michel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor
steam.sh[4623]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Startup - updater built Feb 7 2025 00:16:31
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/michel/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened'
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Opted in to client beta 'publicbeta' via beta file
You are in the 'publicbeta' client beta.
02/07 01:43:54 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
02/07 01:43:54 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1738889325)/tid(4751)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/michel/.steam/debian-installation/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] 2. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Checking for update on startup
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Checking for available updates...
[ 0%] Checking for available updates...
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Manifest download: send request
[2025-02-07 01:43:54] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2025-02-07 01:43:55] Manifest download: finished
[2025-02-07 01:43:55] Download skipped: /steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12 version 1738889325, installed version 1738889325, existing pending version 0
[2025-02-07 01:43:55] Nothing to do
[2025-02-07 01:43:55] Verifying installation...
[----] Verifying installation...
[2025-02-07 01:43:55] Verifying all executable checksums
[2025-02-07 01:43:56] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo

Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/michel/.steam/debian-installation/logs

XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf759a780
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf7599050
double free or corruption (out)
crash_20250207014356_5.dmp[4767]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20250207014356_5.dmp
/home/michel/.steam/debian-installation/steam.sh, linha 946: 4751 Abortado (imagem do núcleo gravada)"$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
(base) michel@ash:/tmp$ crash_20250207014356_5.dmp[4767]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20250207014356_5.dmp[4767]: response: CrashID=bp-3232be30-dad9-4c6b-9cb7-875062250206
crash_20250207014356_5.dmp[4767]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20250207014356_5.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-3232be30-dad9-4c6b-9cb7-875062250206''

Iikester8 2025-02-07 github

Seems to be fixed for me, here is new startup output:

$ steam
steam.sh[21176]: Running Steam on linuxmint 22.1 64-bit
steam.sh[21176]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[21231]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[21176]: Log already open
steam.sh[21176]: Using supervisor /home/userid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor
steam.sh[21176]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Startup - updater built Feb 7 2025 00:16:31
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/userid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened'
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Opted in to client beta 'publicbeta' via beta file
You are in the 'publicbeta' client beta.
02/07 09:40:44 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
02/07 09:40:44 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1738889325)/tid(21307)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/userid/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Checking for update on startup
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Checking for available updates...
[ 0%] Checking for available updates...
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Manifest download: send request
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Manifest download: finished
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Download skipped: /steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12 version 1738889325, installed version 1738889325, existing pending version 0
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Nothing to do
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Verifying installation...
[----] Verifying installation...
[2025-02-07 09:40:44] Verifying all executable checksums
[2025-02-07 09:40:45] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo

Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/userid/.local/share/Steam/logs

XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf3c1c860
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf3c1afc0
/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y-Blue/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1053: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
02/07 09:40:45 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
02/07 09:40:45 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamsysinfo)/version(1738889325)/tid(21325)
Running query: 1 - GpuTopology
Response: gpu_topology {
gpus {
id: 1
name: "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti"
vram_size_bytes: 8847884288
driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_NvidiaProprietary
driver_version_major: 550
driver_version_minor: 120
driver_version_patch: 0
}
gpus {
id: 2
name: "llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1, 256 bits)"
vram_size_bytes: 3221225472
driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_MesaLLVMPipe
driver_version_major: 0
driver_version_minor: 0
driver_version_patch: 1
}
default_gpu_id: 1
}

Exit code: 0
Saving response to: /tmp/steamLLEHpL - 103 bytes
steamwebhelper.sh[21329]: Using supervisor /home/userid/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor
steamwebhelper.sh[21329]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap sniper steam runtime via /home/userid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper.sh
steamwebhelper.sh[21329]: Using CEF sandbox (try with -no-cef-sandbox if this fails)
steamwebhelper.sh[21329]: Starting steamwebhelper with Sniper steam runtime at /home/userid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper/_v2-entry-point
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 21411
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
exec ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/userid/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=21307 -buildid=1738889325 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home/userid/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=0 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/userid/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/userid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 -use_xcomposite_workaround -no-restart-on-ui-mode-change --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-gpu --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/userid/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --disable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC
Fossilize INFO: Setting autogroup scheduling.
Desktop state changed: desktop: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1920,1080 } primary: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1920,1080 }
Caching cursor image for , size 1x1, serial 593, cache size = 0
Proton: Missing or invalid openvrpaths.vrpath file! [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/userid/.config/openvr/openvrpaths.vrpath'
wine: cannot find '/home/userid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/../bin/d3ddriverquery64.exe'
Fossilize INFO: Setting autogroup scheduling.
Proton: Missing or invalid openvrpaths.vrpath file! [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/userid/.config/openvr/openvrpaths.vrpath'
wine: cannot find '/home/userid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/../bin/d3ddriverquery64.exe'

Mmichelvaleferreira 2025-02-07 github

I went back to the usual release and it worked for me. no more beta.

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