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Steam randomly crash and open random windows while playing a game

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12089 · opened 2025-06-06 by Krafting · updated 2025-06-06 · 2 comments · github
KKrafting 2025-06-06 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Steam Version: 1747701111
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 42
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes, even reinstalled the whole system
  • 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 AMD 5700 XT / 7900 XT

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Sometimes, when I play a game on steam, steam would try to shutdown (showing the 'Shutting down" message and quitting) but without closing the game.

What's weirder, sometimes steam will launch a random window of the steam client too, for example the "Add a non-steam game" window or even the "change my email" window (yes, not in the steam client itself, in a new window), which is really weird.

This seems to happen only since I switched from an NVIDIA to an AMD GPU (but might just be a bug in newer evrsion of steam after my switch)

I did a full reinstall of Fedora 42 but the issue is still present.

here is an extract of me running steam through the command line until this happen :
https://gist.github.com/Krafting/4a7694262fa588e6b00382d44ad945ac

This messages pops up a lot in the logs and in the dump crash file :

Assert( Assertion Failed: Error: RaiseJSException: Method call failed: SharedConnection.SubscribeToEMsg call had invalid argument (arg 0): is_array: true
 ):/data/src/steamUI/spewmanager.cpp:192

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Play a game
  2. Wait a bit, this can take longer
  3. Steam tries to shut down, open a random window but the game keep running fine
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-06-06 github

Hello @Krafting, this issue is already being tracked at #10012. Since this issue report adds some more details to ponder, I've transferred it to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10012#issuecomment-2950703834.

Closing as a duplicate.

KKrafting 2025-06-06 github

Thank you ! Sorry for the duplicate, will follow this issue instead !