Crashing on boot (steam)

Crashing on boot

steamclosed AMD driversreviewedDistro Family: Arch

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#3763 · opened 2015-03-20 by acceptable-security · updated 2019-07-18 · 3 comments · github

Aacceptable-security 2015-03-20 github

Before this was working fine, but yesterday I did pacman -Syu and it went through with no issues. Today (after restarting my computer) Steam is refusing to start. It is crashing with the message

/home/brian/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/brian/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Running Steam on arch  64-bit
/home/brian/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1424305157)
assert_20150320123017_1.dmp[10540]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20150320123017_1.dmp
/home/brian/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 757: 10537 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

Currently running Arch Linux x86-64

$ uname -a
Linux bsmith 3.19.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 18 16:21:02 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Aadrianmace 2015-04-19 github

[04:12:04] [adrian] @ [command]:[~]
$ steam
/home/adrian/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/adrian/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Running Steam on arch  64-bit
/home/adrian/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1428965940)
assert_20150419161441_1.dmp[1960]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20150419161441_1.dmp
/home/adrian/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 757:  1957 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
assert_20150419161441_1.dmp[1960]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no
assert_20150419161441_1.dmp[1960]: error: HTTP response code said error
assert_20150419161441_1.dmp[1960]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20150419161441_1.dmp'', upload no: ''HTTP response code said error''

[04:14:43] [adrian] @ [command]:[~]
$ uname -a
Linux command.lan 3.19.3-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 14:10:00 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[04:17:38] [adrian] @ [command]:[~]
$ cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Arch Linux"
ID=arch
PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux"
ANSI_COLOR="0;36"
HOME_URL="https://www.archlinux.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://bbs.archlinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.archlinux.org/"

Chiming in with the same error. Running Arch with catalyst-hook / catalyst-total for AMD drivers.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-07-13 github

Hello @block8437, @adrianmace, are either of you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-08-17 github

Closing pending feedback.

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