Steam Client hangs on start

steamclosed NVIDIA driversreviewedDistro Family: Arch

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#3766 · opened 2015-03-22 by jdost · updated 2019-07-18 · 6 comments · github

Jjdost 2015-03-22 github

Running on Arch Linux, whenever I start the steam client, it hangs with just the following as the output:

Running Steam on arch  64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110_client)

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2015-03-23 github

Can you give more configuration details, such as what video card and driver you have, etc.?

Jjdost 2015-03-24 github

The card is an NVidia GeForce GTX 260. The driver is the proprietary NVidia driver version 340.76.

AAaron1011 2015-03-28 github

I can reproduce this on Ubuntu 14.04

AAaron1011 2015-03-28 github

The error turned out to be an X11 BadAlloc error. I'd been getting this with cheese and glxgears as wel..

Updaing to the drivers in this PPA fixed the issue (The normal warnings about downloading from a PPA apply).

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-07-13 github

Hello @jdost, are you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-08-17 github

Closing assuming this was a video driver issue from 2015.

If anyone on an nvidia system has this symptom, the most likely cause is that nvidia's running kernel module version does not match the userspace library version.

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