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Steam Crashes on Start

steamopen Distro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#13330 · opened 2026-06-18 by TimeLincoln · updated 2026-06-22 · 5 comments · github
TTimeLincoln 2026-06-18 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date):
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Manjaro 26.1
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]

steam_crash.log

  • GPU: AMD 9070XT

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Open Steam
  2. Tries to sign in
  3. crahes trying to open the client
RRenari 2026-06-18 github

How did you install Steam?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam

I recommend reading through this, and possibly asking on Manjaro related channels because this is something wrong with your setup, not something wrong with Steam.

TTimeLincoln 2026-06-21 github

Installed from the multilib repo, any tips on how to trace back what is actually causing the crash if its not steam? There's nothing irregular or special about my setup, steam just stopped working one day.

RRenari 2026-06-22 github

I do not the provided log doesn't seem to have any relevant info, I'd try running steam from terminal and see if it has any other information.

Rruabmbua 2026-06-22 github

backtrace of crashing thread:

#0  0xd2a61942 in ?? () from /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libaudio.so
#1  0xf13625e8 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libpulse.so.0
#2  0xf0be5d24 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-17.0.so
#3  0xf0be70bb in pa_pdispatch_run () from /usr/lib32/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-17.0.so
#4  0xf1350697 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libpulse.so.0
#5  0xf0bebfe9 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-17.0.so
#6  0xf0bece7d in ?? () from /usr/lib32/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-17.0.so
#7  0xf1364161 in pa_mainloop_dispatch () from /usr/lib32/libpulse.so.0
#8  0xf13648fa in pa_mainloop_iterate () from /usr/lib32/libpulse.so.0
#9  0xf13649bd in pa_mainloop_run () from /usr/lib32/libpulse.so.0
[#10](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/10) 0xf1376240 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libpulse.so.0
[#11](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/11) 0xf0c00713 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-17.0.so
[#12](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/12) 0xf7c1706a in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libc.so.6
[#13](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/13) 0xf7cb5da8 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libc.so.6
RRenari 2026-06-22 github

Ah yeah it's crashing in his audio stack.

Nothing extracted yet.