Steam GUI crashes when doing certain actions on fedora 43

steamopen Steam clientDistro Family: FedoraWeb Component

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12434 · opened 2025-11-07 by Meelee35 · updated 2025-11-17 · 1 comments · github

MMeelee35 2025-11-07 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date):
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 43
Opted into Steam client beta?: No
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
Steam Logs:

steamlogs.tar.gz

GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Client GUI crashes whenever I do certain actions. Actions are:

Dragging game in the library
Hovering over entry in the download queue
Clicking the download settings icon on an active download

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Do the issues that i mentioned above

Notes

Logs given when the crash happens by running steam in the terminal:

steamwebhelper.sh[37833]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/me/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point
steamwebhelper.sh[37833]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/me/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point
exec ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/me/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=37369 -buildid=1759461205 -steamid=76561199140218464 -logdir=/home/me/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=1 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/me/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/me/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 -use_xcomposite_workaround --valve-initial-threadpool-size=4 --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-gpu --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/me/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --disable-component-update --disable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,BlockPromptsIfIgnoredOften,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC

Steam is from the rpmfusion-nonfree repo

Ttruefakts 2025-11-08 · hidden on GitHub github

Officially, Valve states that the .deb from steampowered.com or the Flatpak are the only supported versions of Steam. The packaged version on rpm-fusion is made by a 3rd party and valve has no control over what dependencies are bundled.

Please retest with the flatpak version of steam and attempt to reproduce. Or install Ubuntu LTS as the Readme on this repo suggests.

There is an open pull request to update the readme to better outline Steam's requirements. Please read, and cross reference the requirements against what operating system you're using on your workstation: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/commit/72b3eae88920635f16b30e385da0998c29f53411

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