seemingly random steam client crash

Kkiwivogel 2013-07-22 github

I was updating some games (dota2, CS:S) and I got hit by a segfault. Probably unrelated to the actual downloads as this kind of crash happens more often.

$steam
Couldn't find dpkg, please update steamdeps for your distribution.
Running Steam on fedora 17 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1374006489_client)
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
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[0722/142543:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(958)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
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Process 5001 created /arne-ValveIPCSharedObjects5
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roaming config store loaded successfully - 4446 bytes.
migrating temporary roaming config store
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ExecCommandLine: "/home/arne/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam"
System startup time: 11.47 seconds
Running Steam on fedora 17 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/arne/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
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ExecCommandLine: "/home/arne/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam steam://open/driverhelperready"
ExecSteamURL: "steam://open/driverhelperready"
Attempting to use a Windows only path root on non-Windows platform for game 212680
Attempting to use a Windows only path root on non-Windows platform for game 212680

(steam:5001): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:5001): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.
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saving roaming config store to 'sharedconfig.vdf'
roaming config store 2 saved successfully
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ExecSteamURL: "steam://open/downloads"
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Attempting to use a Windows only path root on non-Windows platform for game 212680
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Attempting to use a Windows only path root on non-Windows platform for game 212680
Attempting to use a Windows only path root on non-Windows platform for game 212680
Game update: AppID 212680 "FTL: Faster Than Light", ProcID 5222, IP 0.0.0.0:0

(steam:5001): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.

(steam:5001): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.
/home/arne/Steam/SteamApps/common/FTL Faster Than Light/FTL: line 4: cd: ./data: No such file or directory
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libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(20130716122544_client)
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
[0722/143314:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(958)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
Initializing Crash Catcher...
Initializing Video
Video Initialized
GL_ARB_framebuffer_object not supported.
Opengl version = 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 9.0)
Starting audio library...
Audio Initialized!
Resource Preload: 7417
Initializing animations...
Animations Initialized!
Loading Ship Blueprints....
Blueprints Loaded!
Initializing Sound Data....
Generating world...
Loading achievements...
Loading score file...
Running Game!
Game removed: AppID 212680 "FTL: Faster Than Light", ProcID 5223
Attempting to use a Windows only path root on non-Windows platform for game 212680
Attempting to use a Windows only path root on non-Windows platform for game 212680
Attempting to use a Windows only path root on non-Windows platform for game 212680
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ExecSteamURL: "steam://openurl/http://steamcommunity.com/my/gamecards/212680/"
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ExecSteamURL: "steam://open/downloads"
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Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20130722142543_1.dmp
/home/arne/Steam/steam.sh: line 704: 5001 Segmentation fault $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-a7e19717-e90e-454a-b260-b3ac12130722
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System specs.

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3300 Mhz
6 logical processors
6 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Unsupported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Linux (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64
X Server Vendor: Fedora Project
X Server Release: 11204000
X Window Manager: Mutter
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-06-28

Video Card:
Driver: X.Org Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS

Driver Version:  2.1 Mesa 9.0
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x1002
DeviceID:  0x6739
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.91" x 11.77"  (23.98" diag)
                                        53.1cm x 29.9cm  (60.9cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: 20K2

Memory:
RAM: 7949 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 281305 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 213998 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
Mon Jul 22 13:10:19 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20130722142543_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-a7e19717-e90e-454a-b260-b3ac12130722''

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-07-25 github

Your crash is in the Miles audio support. We've seen problems with Miles on Fedora, such as with selinux. Do you have any selinux events?

Kkiwivogel 2013-08-04 github

I am not sure where to find those. I did some more testing and it would appear to be related to the sound playing when receiving a new chat message in a window that is not open at that time. (I upgraded my distro just to be sure, that didn't solve it.)

EDIT:

Found the messages.

Solved for now with su -c "setsebool -P allow_execheap 1"

[ 3640.617380] type=1400 audit(1375647603.151:9): avc: denied { execheap } for pid=5620 comm="gameoverlayui" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process
[ 3651.570909] type=1400 audit(1375647614.114:10): avc: denied { execheap } for pid=3516 comm="steam" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process
[ 3845.162665] type=1400 audit(1375647807.871:11): avc: denied { execheap } for pid=5843 comm="steam" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process
[ 3933.904935] type=1400 audit(1375647896.687:12): avc: denied { execheap } for pid=6330 comm="dota_linux" scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process

Same as #43

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-08-05 github

Thanks for checking, I'm resolving this as a duplicate.