just here to help bud
i guess i wasn't taught cs to have beggars to say oh please lordly help me, we have a reporting mechanism that reads logs and reports without interaction
Try running sudo dnf reinstall ca-certificates or one of the workarounds from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12292
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tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
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steam.sh[810806]: Running Steam on fedora 44 64-bit
steam.sh[810806]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[810864]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[810806]: Log already open
steam.sh[810806]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 5 preallocated environment variables.
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Startup - updater built Jul 23 2026 03:28:09
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/ignorant/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' '-vv'
07/25 15:12:49 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
07/25 15:12:49 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1784778118)/tid(811019)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 5 preallocated environment variables.
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/ignorant/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] 1. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Checking for update on startup
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Checking for available updates...
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Manifest download: send request
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Process started with command-line: '/home/ignorant/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-child-update-ui' '-child-update-ui-socket' '8' '-srt-logger-opened' '-vv'
07/25 15:12:49 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Using update UI: console
07/25 15:12:49 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(811020)
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Create window
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Set percent complete: 0
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Set status message: Checking for available updates...
[ 0%] Checking for available updates...
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Set percent complete: -1
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Manifest download: finished
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1784778118, installed version 1784778118, existing pending version 0
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Nothing to do
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Verifying installation...
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Verifying all executable checksums
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Set percent complete: -1
[2026-07-25 15:12:49] Set status message: Verifying installation...
[----] Verifying installation...
[2026-07-25 15:12:50] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
[2026-07-25 15:12:50] Destroy window
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/ignorant/.local/share/Steam/logs
[2026-07-25 15:12:50] ProcessNextMessage: socket disconnected
[2026-07-25 15:12:50] No more messages are expected - exiting
XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_US.utf8
XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_US.utf8XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf5c22190
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf5c20980
crash_20260725151250_5.dmp[811038]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20260725151250_5.dmp
crash_20260725151250_5.dmp[811038]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no
crash_20260725151250_5.dmp[811038]: error: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates
crash_20260725151250_5.dmp[811038]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20260725151250_5.dmp'', upload no: ''Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates''
/home/ignorant/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 966: 811019 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"