I too am experiencing this issue
/home/alexm/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 700: 4200 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
This crash happens when mousing over a new child dialogue box or the 'Play' button of a game in Library. It is reproducible when I leave my mouse cursor over a new popup window, however if I move my mouse out of the way before the popup window fully displays, the seg fault doesn't occur.
Dump reports don't seem to upload, however they are generated.
crash_20130302123109_1.dmp http://ubuntuone.com/7DQUq6YPmivQQco1SSklPp
Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 3301 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
Network Information:
Network Speed:
Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-25-generic
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11300000
X Window Manager: GNOME Shell
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-02-22
Video Card:
Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series
Driver Version: 4.2.11903 Compatibility Profile Context
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x68ba
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.51" x 11.54" (23.50" diag)
52.1cm x 29.3cm (59.7cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected
Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC887-VD
Memory:
RAM: 12000 Mb
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 228040 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 154743 Mb
Installed software:
Recent Failure Reports:
This looks very similar to #2019, which turned out to be an AMD driver issue. If you try some of the driver switching discussed there do you have better results?
Yeah I have diagnosed it to the catalyst driver. Removing catalyst-dkms and catalyst-utils and installing mesa-libgl allowed it to start again. The only problem is that after looking at his solutions, they seem to only pertain to Ubuntu. Arch has a totally different directory structure it seems like for their libgl
Closing as general video driver quality from 2013 is no longer relevant.
Nothing extracted yet.
Yesterday steam was working beautifully, but today I can not get it to load at all. I have purged it from my system numerous times, and I have ran steam --reset to no avail. According to the report there is some sort of segfault on line 700 of the steam.py script. I have also seen that other people from other distros are having this same issue.
I am running arch linux x86_64.
[britt@BrittArchPC ~]$ steam
Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
[2013-03-02 02:39:42] Checking for update on startup
[2013-03-02 02:39:42] Checking for available updates...
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
[2013-03-02 02:39:42] Download complete.
[2013-03-02 02:39:42] Verifying installation...
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 7670 with name 0eBlobRegistryMutex_1C921C0FBC6C50F24AD711C8EFBFB84D
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 7670 with name 0eBlobRegistrySignal_1C921C0FBC6C50F24AD711C8EFBFB84D
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 7670 with name 0emSteamEngineInstance
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 7670 with name 0eSteamEngineLock
(steam:7782): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
(steam:7782): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1137: error: unexpected identifier
direction', expected character}'Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
[0302/023943:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1361807486_client)
/home/britt/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 700: 7782 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
[britt@BrittArchPC ~]$