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Steam beta client crashes about 15 minutes after starting, possibly due to Dualsense plugged in

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: Ubuntu
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12328 · opened 2025-09-18 by WiseFerret · updated 2025-09-23 · 22 comments · github
WWiseFerret 2025-09-18 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1758150255
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): ubuntu 25.10
  • 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:

Steam beta client crashes by itself, even without starting any games, ~15 minutes after starting.
Disabling steam overlay and steam gpu support for web content does not solve the issue.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Start Steam (no need to start any game).
  2. Wait for about 15 minutes.

I attach the terminal output and the dump files.

steam_debug.log

WWiseFerret 2025-09-18 github

How to upload the two dump files? The fail to load (about 900kb in size each).

WWiseFerret 2025-09-18 github

Here is a link to the dump files that will work for 1 week.

SSaeuissimus 2025-09-19 github

I'm observing crashes too. I had two of them while in-game and confirmed just now that I can reproduce a crash while keeping Steam open without launching any games.

My system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1758150255
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): ArchLinux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • GPU: AMD
Ttfredett 2025-09-19 github

I have also observed crashes, the logs I saw were practically identical to the debug log that was posted by
@WiseFerret.

My system information

Steam client version (build number or date): 1758150255
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): EndeavourOS (Arch derivative)
Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
GPU: AMD Radeon 7900 XT

I have observed it crashing, both in and out of game. Typically after about 1 hour. If in game, shortly after steam crashes, the game of whatever is being played, exits outs, without any prompt. (which I am assuming its hooking into the game process somewhere and using steam in some capacity to remain open).

I for now opted out of the beta for now after having this crash several times. I will test later tomorrow to see if I experience the same issues.

HHunterCZ122 2025-09-19 github

Same issue on Steam Beta, getting random segfaults after ~10 minutes:
[ 928.568636] IPC:CSteamEngin[2510]: segfault at 80000336 ip 00000000d855c529 sp 00000000d51ed4b0 error 4 in steamclient.so[2892529,d6a66000+1e76000] likely on CPU 16 (core 4, socket 0)

Aalosarjos 2025-09-19 github

Not sure if it's the latest beta o the latest package update on Arch but I'm also getting lots of coredumps in the last 2-3 days without even playing

PID: 3372 (steam)
           UID: 1000 (alosarjos)
           GID: 1000 (alosarjos)
        Signal: 11 (SEGV)
     Timestamp: Fri 2025-09-19 20:53:15 CEST (23min ago)
  Command Line: /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -srt-logger-opened
    Executable: /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
 Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/app.slice/app-gnome-steam-2562.scope
          Unit: [email protected]
     User Unit: app-gnome-steam-2562.scope
         Slice: user-1000.slice
     Owner UID: 1000 (alosarjos)
       Boot ID: fa8359f5234348de9528cb353c7ab8d1
    Machine ID: e3ea1a1b68d84034b844a0a1610de9d6
      Hostname: artorias
       Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.steam.1000.fa8359f5234348de9528cb353c7ab8d1.3372.1758307995000000.zst (present)
  Size on Disk: 167.2M
       Message: Process 3372 (steam) of user 1000 dumped core.

                Stack trace of thread 3470:
                #0  0x00000000d875c529 n/a (steamclient.so + 0x2893529)
                #1  0x00000000f3e5c0c6 n/a (libvstdlib_s.so + 0x9f0c6)
                #2  0x00000000f3e5c73f n/a (libvstdlib_s.so + 0x9f73f)
                #3  0x00000000f3e5c792 Coroutine_Continue (libvstdlib_s.so + 0x9f792)
                #4  0x00000000d875bebc n/a (steamclient.so + 0x2892ebc)
                #5  0x00000000d8767466 n/a (steamclient.so + 0x289e466)
                #6  0x00000000d87676fe n/a (steamclient.so + 0x289e6fe)
                #7  0x00000000d8702b33 n/a (steamclient.so + 0x2839b33)
                #8  0x00000000d770cd21 n/a (steamclient.so + 0x1843d21)
                #9  0x00000000d74e6505 n/a (steamclient.so + 0x161d505)
                [#10](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/10) 0x00000000d770fe7b n/a (steamclient.so + 0x1846e7b)
                [#11](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/11) 0x00000000d7710851 n/a (steamclient.so + 0x1847851)
                [#12](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/12) 0x00000000f3f30d2e _ZN16SteamThreadTools7CThread22ThreadExceptionWrapperEPv (libtier0_s.so + 0x32d2e)
                [#13](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/13) 0x00000000f3f2e5fe n/a (libtier0_s.so + 0x305fe)
                [#14](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/14) 0x00000000f3f2eec0 CatchAndWriteMiniDumpExForVoidPtrFn (libtier0_s.so + 0x30ec0)
                [#15](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/15) 0x00000000f3f2ef08 CatchAndWriteMiniDumpForVoidPtrFn (libtier0_s.so + 0x30f08)
                [#16](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/16) 0x00000000f3f339a2 _ZN16SteamThreadTools7CThread10ThreadProcEPv (libtier0_s.so + 0x359a2)
                [#17](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/17) 0x00000000f7d13a8b n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x93a8b)
                [#18](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/18) 0x00000000f7daf548 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12f548)

                Stack trace of thread 3375:
                #0  0x00000000f7d1ca9b n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9ca9b)
                #1  0x00000000f7d0fa40 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8fa40)
                #2  0x00000000f7d101f8 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x901f8)
                #3  0x00000000f7d13388 __pthread_cond_timedwait64 (libc.so.6 + 0x93388)
                #4  0x00000000f7d13463 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x93463)
                #5  0x000000005689bc85 n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x2d1c85)
                #6  0x0000000056874fd7 n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x2aafd7)
                #7  0x00000000568752b3 n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x2ab2b3)
                #8  0x000000005689ba8e n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x2d1a8e)
                #9  0x0000000056898a98 n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x2cea98)
                [#10](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/10) 0x00000000568993df n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x2cf3df)
                [#11](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/11) 0x000000005689f694 n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x2d5694)
                [#12](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/12) 0x00000000f7d13a8b n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x93a8b)
                [#13](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/13) 0x00000000f7daf548 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12f548)

                Stack trace of thread 3372:
                #0  0x00000000f7d1ca9b n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9ca9b)
                #1  0x00000000f7d0fa40 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8fa40)
                #2  0x00000000f7d101f8 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x901f8)
                #3  0x00000000f7d13388 __pthread_cond_timedwait64 (libc.so.6 + 0x93388)
                #4  0x00000000f7d13463 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x93463)
                #5  0x00000000f3f32aac _ZN16SteamThreadTools17CThreadSyncObject4WaitEj (libtier0_s.so + 0x34aac)
                #6  0x00000000d774fe0c n/a (steamclient.so + 0x1886e0c)
                #7  0x00000000d772acde n/a (steamclient.so + 0x1861cde)
                #8  0x00000000d772b202 n/a (steamclient.so + 0x1862202)
                #9  0x00000000d770b965 n/a (steamclient.so + 0x1842965)
                [#10](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/10) 0x00000000d7377f52 n/a (steamclient.so + 0x14aef52)
                [#11](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/11) 0x00000000f54953b2 n/a (steamui.so + 0x15393b2)
                [#12](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/12) 0x00000000f54965d7 n/a (steamui.so + 0x153a5d7)
                [#13](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/13) 0x00000000f5497938 n/a (steamui.so + 0x153b938)
                [#14](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/14) 0x00000000f5499298 n/a (steamui.so + 0x153d298)
                [#15](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/15) 0x000000005685ae2d n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x290e2d)
                [#16](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/16) 0x000000005685c0a0 n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x2920a0)
                [#17](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/17) 0x000000005685d195 n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x293195)
                [#18](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/18) 0x00000000f7ca2535 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x22535)
                [#19](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/19) 0x00000000f7ca260e __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2260e)
                [#20](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/20) 0x0000000056844031 n/a (/home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x27a031)
                ELF object binary architecture: Intel 80386
Aalosarjos 2025-09-19 github

Amount of crashes in a couple of days. Not normal definitely.

Thu 2025-09-18 08:20:48 CEST  4586 1000 1000 SIGILL  present  /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper                         56.3M
Thu 2025-09-18 18:14:24 CEST  2107 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam                                 158.6M
Thu 2025-09-18 20:40:23 CEST  2154 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam                                  36.7M
Thu 2025-09-18 20:40:41 CEST  2480 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper                         12.8M
Thu 2025-09-18 20:55:31 CEST  6035 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam                                    81M
Fri 2025-09-19 08:06:03 CEST  2441 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam                                  36.3M
Fri 2025-09-19 19:56:18 CEST  2197 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam                                  92.4M
Fri 2025-09-19 20:53:16 CEST  3372 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /home/alosarjos/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam                                 167.2M
Ttfredett 2025-09-19 github

At the very least as a stop gap for some folks, I have not experienced these crashes since switching off the beta client. I have run it in the background all day today, played some games during lunch, etc. Zero crashes.

RretroDEG 2025-09-20 github

question? by chance does the entire monitor that steam is on become unresponsive and no longer work until rebooting? that is the issue i am having. even if you kill steam it stays visible and the monitor is non functional. i have had it happen 3 times now. once seemingly at random, once after clicking something in my library, and once immediately after steam loaded. in that order. all within a couple hours beginning friday 09/19.

system info:

Operating System: Kubuntu 25.04
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.3
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-29-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 30.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.

TTremeschin 2025-09-21 github

I've downgraded to systemd 257.9 following this https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12310#issuecomment-3309375151, as steam input with my dualsense wasn't working today, which seems to have helped with the crashing issue on Steam Beta client at here on arch/nvidia/gnome/wayland

Edit: Womp, it segfaulted randomly, just took much, much longer for some reason, will opt-out of beta fttb

Cchenxiaolong 2025-09-22 github

I encounter the same thing as well, except it also happens if I'm idle in game. Eg. in Horizon Forbidden West, just pausing and staying on the menu for ~15 minutes is enough to have Steam crash and exit in the background. The game runs fine until it attempts to save and then it'll hang. The crash doesn't seem to occur while actively interacting with either Steam or the game.

coredumpctl info <pid>: coredumpctl.txt

Steam's own crash dump: crash_20250921224524_38.dmp.gz

Like other folks, I'm on the beta client. I have not tested if unenrolling from the beta release channel fixes the problem for me yet.


My system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1758150255
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 42 x86_64
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 4090
Yyasink21 2025-09-22 github

I've been having crashes on beta client since the update that announced 32 bit os support will be dropped. I've tried various compositors, disabling the GPU acceleration in steam client, but the result is always the same, steam just crashes suddenly with no error message, log reports are also random but I've witnessed it complaining about gpu process crashing a few times.

Ccvuchener 2025-09-22 github

Same problem for me on Fedora 42, and Steam 1758328855 (beta) (build: Sat, Sep 20 02:17 UTC -08:00).

I did not see reported here, when crashing steam prints in the console:

src/vstdlib/coroutine.cpp (817) : GCoroutineMgr().IsValidCoroutine(hCoroutine)
src/vstdlib/coroutine.cpp (817) : GCoroutineMgr().IsValidCoroutine(hCoroutine)

I've downgraded to systemd 257.9 following this [#12310 (comment)](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12310#issuecomment-3309375151), as steam input with my dualsense wasn't working today, ~which seems to have helped~ with the crashing issue on Steam Beta client at here on arch/nvidia/gnome/wayland

Edit: Womp, it segfaulted randomly, just took much, much longer for some reason, will opt-out of beta fttb

I have dualsense too, I wonder if it may be related. I tried unplugging mine, and Steam did not crash (I did not test for hours only about half an hour). When plugging the controller back and waiting 15 minutes, Steam crashed right on time. Do other affected by this issue have a dualsense or another controller?

Cchenxiaolong 2025-09-22 github

Do other affected by this issue have a dualsense or another controller?

Oh, interesting. Yeah, I was using a Dualsense controller as well.

Mmatte-schwartz 2025-09-22 github

I also had a Dualsense plugged in while experiencing this issue, before switching back to Stable

JJuppstein 2025-09-22 github

Yup, Dualsense here as well and the Steam client crashes about 10-15 after connecting the controller.

WWiseFerret 2025-09-22 github

I have Dualsense too. Nice catch!

Ttfredett 2025-09-22 github

Also have a Dualsense plugged in, so seems plausible it may be related to that.

Llostgoat 2025-09-22 github

Thanks for the reports and logfiles.

A beta update just shipped with a potential fix for this issue. If you see the problem after updating to the new client let me know.

Ttfredett 2025-09-23 github

@lostgoat, preliminary results, opted back into the beta, about 20 minutes after you posted here, no crashes so far. so so far so good. This stability may also be from the fact I unplugged the dualsense I had plugged in. I will run more testing tomorrow with it plugged in instead.

Mmatte-schwartz 2025-09-23 github

seems fine here as well on beta client with idle dualsense

Llostgoat 2025-09-23 github

Thanks for rechecking