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Steam process left in limbo after "Retrieve A Lost Account"

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#450 · opened 2012-12-29 by cruxic · updated 2013-01-09 · 1 comments · github
Ccruxic 2012-12-29 github

Finishing the "Retrieve A Lost Account" wizard appears to quit Steam however it's still running in the background and double clicking the desktop icon again does nothing. Process must be killed in order to get Steam to restart.

Steps to reproduce (I'm running LUbuntu 12.10):

  1. Thank Valve for the awesome decision to support Linux! Thank you!
  2. Install steam.deb
  3. Double click steam icon on the desktop
  4. Click "Retrieve A Lost Account"
  5. "I don't know my account name"
  6. "I remember the contact email address I used"
  7. Enter your email address then proceed to "Finish"
  8. Steam appears to completely exit at this point
  9. Double click steam icon on the desktop again - nothing happens

Process list shows steam.sh and "MainThrd" still running. Killing MainThrd allows Steam to be re-lauched.

------------------------------------------System Information-------------------------------------
Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 2000 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-21-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11300000

Video Card:
Driver: Intel Open Source Technology Center Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset x86/MMX/SSE2

Driver Version:  2.1 Mesa 9.0
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x8086
DeviceID:  0x2a42
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1280 x 800
Desktop Resolution: 1280 x 800
Primary Display Size: 13.03" x 8.15"  (15.35" diag)
                                        33.1cm x 20.7cm  (39.0cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected

Sound card:
Audio device: Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)

Memory:
RAM: 1964 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 7511 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 4094 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2013-01-03 github

The next release of the Steam client will have a fix for this.

Nothing extracted yet.