Segfault when attempting to create a game backup at non-default location

steamclosed NVIDIA driversreviewedSteam client

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#4151 · opened 2015-11-22 by silviucc · updated 2019-03-15 · 4 comments · github

Ssilviucc 2015-11-22 github

I can reproduce this every time I want to backup a game to a separate drive. By default Steam wants to backup the game somewhere to $HOME/.local/share/Steam/Backups but if I choose another directory on different drive, it segfaults. I do have read/write permission to it. It's where my library of Steam games is located.

This is what dmesg shows:

steam[5358]: segfault at 43a07ffc ip 00000000f7328c86 sp 00000000ffefb7f0 error 4 in libc-2.19.so[f72b2000+1a8000]

System info in attached file.
steam_system_info.txt

Crash does not happen if I use nvidia driver 355.11 instead of 358.16. So this is probably related to issue #4144

Xxenithorb 2016-01-07 github

Also seeing this on Fedora 23 w/ nvidia 358

Xxenithorb 2016-01-07 github

Temporary fix (since downgrading to 355 can be difficult in Fedora) is to downgrade to the rpmfusion available stable driver NVIDIA 340.96 dnf install akmod-nvidia-340xx xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-340xx-libs.i686 after dnf remove akmod-nvidia "kmod-nvidia*"

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-02-15 github

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

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-03-15 github

Closing as video driver quality from 2015 is no longer relevant.

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