Please include the system information requested at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#reporting-issues
Also, please upload /tmp/dumps/assert_20130209095336_1.dmp and /tmp/dumps/crash_20130209095340_2.dmp to gist and provide a link to it.
Thanks for the quick reply, here's some h/w soft stats
Intel Core i7 3610QM 2.3 GHz
6 GB DDR3
750 GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive
17.3-Inch Screen, Windows 8 (completely removed though of course)
Video Graphics - 2GB GDDR5AMD Radeon HD7970M
All I know about the software is:
Edit: Ubuntu 12.04 32bit (10.12 wouldn't even install)
I think I've made some progress though, I just recently went to
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
...and ran that (I had to use the --force option to overwrite, because it's unclear how to remove the other ATI garbage that got installed on the system more or less automatically)
Now I actually see the login screen which is great (although the Ubuntu login screen looks really glitched out since force upgrading the display drivers).
I still consider this an issue, that the 'stock' drivers produce in an inoperable steam client. And I'm willing to revert my drivers or fresh install if it helps to fix this issue.
There should be no expectation for opensource ati drivers from two and a half years ago to work with steam, the amount of progress made to the opensource ati driver in that time is considerable and they can't future-proof that far with the amount of manpower available.
By "stock" drivers, I'm referring to those experimental ones that randomly show up the the "drivers" dialog. It looks like steam is recommending that I switch back to what I had going before when it wouldn't boot which feels like a red flag.
Steam is targeting Ubuntu 12.04 (and similarly recent distros) with stable-yet-beta graphics drivers that have been published within the last 6 months; I understand that you would like this to work on your system, but its an unsupported configuration.
also, you should not need to run steam through sudo or gksu, it is happy to run as your current user.
Oops, that was a typo, I'm running 12.04, I must have mis-sharpied this installation CD. This is a brand new installation, i'm actually really unattached to this installation right now, I don't even have any of my hotkeys or browser configs implemented yet.
Hmm, ok then.
Does 3d work for you? Does glxgears show animating gears.
Have you updated your system recently? sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade will make sure all your libraries are up to date.
Just installed mesa-utils and the gears show up (in the forced install of the drivers DLed straight from ATI's website). Give me a sec to switch to the experimental ones in the "drivers" dialog.
also, is there a cmd line to launch the games "library" from the console? Using the direct DLed drivers, I can get as far as to the fiends list, but I can't switch to the games because it complains something about an "engine" is already running.
Something like steam steam://library or something?
ok, I tried to switch back to the failing driver but I'm not able to reproduce the error for launching steam. Is it a part of the normal installation procedure that people download files straight from the GPU manufacturer’s web site? I kinda jumped into this before I found a very detailed guide. Otherwise I could do a fresh Ubuntu install and probably reproduce the problem.
Btw, now that I've used gksu a couple times, steam crashes if I try to launch steam without root. I tried chowning everything in ~/.local but same result. This should probably go in a seperate issue, but giving that my system isn't very compatibly with the latest steam I'll just mention it here.
Generating new string page texture 21: 384x256, total string texture memory is 974.85 KB
Generating new string page texture 24: 256x256, total string texture memory is 1.24 MB
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20130209111709_1.dmp
success = no
error: Failed to open/read local data from file/application
/home/kentos/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 561: 3355 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Should this bug be closed, then?
It can be closed as long as the standard installation procedure includes instructing the user to go to ati.com / nvidia.com and telling them to DL the latest driver package. Simply going through the "drivers" dialog and DLing the experimental/ alternatives didn't work until I went online and manually grabbed AMD catalyst 13.1 from http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx
The need for an up-to-date driver is mentioned in the info on the client, plus the Steam client does a driver check on startup (which of course wouldn't help if Steam doesn't start).
Agreed, close this issue. I'll complain at the "steam on linux" tutorial I got to from google for not linking to the github repo.
Thanks, closing.
Nothing extracted yet.
I download steam and then start it (using
steamon terminal) I get the following console outputs depending how I start steam (you'll have to excuse my technique, I've never started steam in Ubuntu 10.04 before).==Using
steamkentos@tuvok:~$ steam >error.txt
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Assert( Assertion Failed: Permission denied ):/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/tier0/threadtools.cpp:1443
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/assert_20130209095336_1.dmp
success = no
error: Failed to open/read local data from file/application
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3014 with name 0emSteamEngineInstance
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3014 with name 0eSteamEngineLock
threadtools.cpp (1443) : Assertion Failed: Permission denied
unlinked 2 orphaned pipes
FATAL: exception not rethrown
CAsyncIOManager: 0 threads terminating. 0 reads, 0 writes, 0 deferrals.
CAsyncIOManager: 49 single object sleeps, 0 multi object sleeps
CAsyncIOManager: 0 single object alertable sleeps, 1 multi object alertable sleeps
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20130209095340_2.dmp
success = no
error: Failed to open/read local data from file/application
/home/kentos/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 561: 3299 Aborted (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
==Using
sudo steamkentos@tuvok:~$ sudo steam
[sudo] password for kentos:
Running Steam on ubuntu 12.04 32-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 12
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 41
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GLXGetVisualConfigs)
Serial number of failed request: 70
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Error opening file for reading: Permission denied
threadtools.cpp (1443) : Assertion Failed: Permission denied
Assert( Assertion Failed: Permission denied ):/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/tier0/threadtools.cpp:1443
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/assert_20130209095356_1.dmp
success = no
error: Failed to open/read local data from file/application
threadtools.cpp (1093) : Assertion Failed: semaphore creation failed Permission denied
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3014 with name 0emSteamEngineInstance
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3014 with name 0eSteamEngineLock
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 12
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 41
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GLXGetVisualConfigs)
Serial number of failed request: 70
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1360379549_client)
CAsyncIOManager: 0 threads terminating. 0 reads, 0 writes, 0 deferrals.
CAsyncIOManager: 39 single object sleeps, 0 multi object sleeps
CAsyncIOManager: 0 single object alertable sleeps, 1 multi object alertable sleeps
/home/kentos/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 561: 3400 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
==Using
gksu steamkentos@tuvok:~$ gksu steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 12.04 32-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 12
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 41
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GLXGetVisualConfigs)
Serial number of failed request: 70
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3014 with name 0eBlobRegistryMutex_5311AA5171E26917583685E205E3D491
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3014 with name 0eBlobRegistrySignal_5311AA5171E26917583685E205E3D491
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3014 with name 0emSteamEngineInstance
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3014 with name 0eSteamEngineLock
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1360379549_client)
Steam: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 34
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Steam: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
Serial number of failed request: 63
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Steam: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 154 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 14 (X_GLXGetVisualConfigs)
Serial number of failed request: 92
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
I will only have this laptop for the rest of the weekend before returning so if anyone else is out there with this POS, could you confirm and follow up for me if it takes longer than the weekend to fix?