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Steam Client Causing System Freezing

steamopen Steam clientDistro Family: Debian
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12027 · opened 2025-05-19 by DC-19 · updated 2025-05-20 · 3 comments · github
DDC-19 2025-05-19 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1745876290
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Debian 12
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes- all up to date
  • Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
  • GPU: NVIDIA dgpu + Intel igpu

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Steam will run for a period of time, then freeze the whole system. Logs generated (log.tar.gz)
suggest that steam is causing split_lock errors during runtime, eventually leading to the system freezing. This was determined via the Debian Forums. Attempts to disable split_lock_detect have not improved the situation. Any help is appreciated, and additional information can be provided upon request

Things that I have already tried:
Rebooting system (many times
Verifying the integrity of Steam
Reinstalling Steam
Enabling and disabling virtually all settings within steam

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Start Steam
  2. Wait
  3. The system freeze sometimes occurs immediately after Steam finishes loading, other times it takes upwards of an hour
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-05-19 github

Hello @DC-19, Attempts to disable split_lock_detect have not improved the situation. the split lock spam is an issue being tracked at #8003 and you've already determined it's not a factor in the more significant system-wide freeze you're reporting. Let's use this issue report to focus on the more important issue.

DDC-19 2025-05-19 github

Ok. I will try to describe the system freeze more thoroughly. After the random amount of time after starting steam, the system will freeze for a few seconds. After that, the system unfreezes, but runs at 2-4 fps, and this does not improve after either closing Steam, nor killing the Steam application. Are there any other logs that I could provide, or other system information that would help when diagnosing this issue?

AAnonEx-Machina 2025-05-20 github

Same here. Probably started happening a week ago.
Kubu 24.05. 6.14.0-17-generic. nVidia-570.
Just having the steam client open will render the system unusable for about 5 mins. intermittently.
Purging Steam Client and Chrome 100% resolved the issue.
I will try to provide more details later.

Also Steam client regularly prompts for the download and install of WINE-MONO.
Doing this does nothing tostop the wine-mono download install prompting.

I also noticed this in Ksystemlog.
[ ProtonFixes[19062] WARN: [CONFIG]: Parent directory "/home/x/.config/protonfixes" does not exist. Abort.]

Steam Beta Branch: Steam Beta Update
Steam Version: 1747701111
Steam Client Build Date: Tue, May 20 05:51 UTC +10:00
Steam Web Build Date: Tue, May 20 10:21 UTC +10:00
Steam API Version: SteamClient022

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