Please include your system info as requested at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#reporting-issues
Can confirm, same problem happening here
Running Steam on ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20140305222450_1.dmp
/home/boncey/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 5761 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
mv: cannot stat ‘/home/boncey/.steam/registry.vdf’: No such file or directory
Installing bootstrap /home/boncey/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Reset complete!
Restarting Steam by request...
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-2e20aa9a-79d6-42ae-8c07-2f0872140305
Running Steam on ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/boncey/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20140305222451_1.dmp
/home/boncey/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 5888 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-f6163feb-a4bd-4276-bdeb-a06182140305
Specs:
2x AMD Radeon HD 7970s in Crossfire
AMD FX 8Core CPU overclocked to 4.6 GHz
Ubuntu 14.04 Beta 1
16GB of Ram
Is there a workaround to downgrade to fix this or?
On 13.10 my graphics drivers are screwed.
You should report this to AMD.
Similar crash for me. Was working fine last week.
Running Steam on ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number
[0319/194717:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(958)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Recovering manager mutex
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Generating new string page texture 2: 48x256, total string texture memory is 49.15 KB
Generating new string page texture 3: 384x256, total string texture memory is 442.37 KB
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
(steam:5071): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",
(steam:5071): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Adding licenses for the following package(s): 0, 2481, 7877, 8538, 11072, 13054, 17111, 27186, 27531, 28315
roaming config store loaded successfully - 1152 bytes.
migrating temporary roaming config store
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1395164792_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20140319194716_1.dmp
/home/jim/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 5071 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-6d04ddb2-8917-4af7-90a7-ddc492140319
johnny99, your crash is #3215 and is not an AMD driver problem.
Yes it was thank you.
Today I installed the newest SteamOS DVD on my computer. I was prepared for breakage, but it hit hard anyway. Thanks to this crash here (the fglrx driver installed automatically) I had to wrestle with lightdm that looped in effort to start and steam that refused to install. The second I used update-alternatives to switch to mesa, the installer rendered with swrast and now is in middle of download.
EDIT
I am not sure what I said about swrast is true anymore. However, it is a fact that the Steam installed correctly. Now I switched back to fglrx and surprise! It still works!
This is fixed in the latest AMD driver (14.04) http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86. This is currently shipping in Debian jessie and we just pushed it out for SteamOS alchemist as well.
Nothing extracted yet.
I have had this problem with the fglrx driver for a while. Not sure why it isn't fixed. I have installed Debian, upgraded to jessie/sid and installed the fglrx-driver. This is the output when I try to launch Steam:
Running Steam on debian 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20140304105352_1.dmp
/home/dylan/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 9969 Segmentation fault $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
mv: cannot stat \u2018/home/dylan/.steam/registry.vdf\u2019: No such file or directory
Installing bootstrap /home/dylan/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Reset complete!
Restarting Steam by request...
Running Steam on debian 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/dylan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20140304105353_1.dmp
/home/dylan/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 10096 Segmentation fault $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-89eb01c1-3c90-4051-83d5-fa2e32140304
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-257e6592-342e-4456-86c3-b01592140304