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Steam fails on boot

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: Ubuntu
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5500 · opened 2018-05-26 by therealrobster · updated 2020-07-17 · 3 comments · github
Ttherealrobster 2018-05-26 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): I can't tell as it crashes, but it's the latest DEB file from steam.
  • Distribution: ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [No]
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes]

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When run from the terminal I get the following output:

$ steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1526683293)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1526683293)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1526683293)
dbus[19394]: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion "path != NULL" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 1362.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
crash_20180526122628_1.dmp[19404]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20180526122628_1.dmp
/home/rob/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 927: 19394 Aborted                 (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
crash_20180526122628_1.dmp[19404]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20180526122628_1.dmp[19404]: response: CrashID=bp-9bf470c3-e25d-493e-97f6-b1fa12180525
crash_20180526122628_1.dmp[19404]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20180526122628_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-9bf470c3-e25d-493e-97f6-b1fa12180525''

A small GUI appears very quickly stating something like checking for updates. It then closes and above output is shown.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Install a fresh steam
  2. type Steam from terminal
  3. watch output
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-05-26 github

Hello @therealrobster, can you check the contents of ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/pinned_libs_32 and if it is empty, delete that folder so that steam can regenerate it. (#5463)

Ttherealrobster 2018-05-27 github

Hi /u/kisak-valve. Wanted to say thanks, that worked a treat. There's still a heap of error outputs but they're probably just warning and it works fine. This is what the output was for the fixed portion:

$ steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins potentially out-of-date, rebuilding...
Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libdbusmenu-glib.so.4. Host: 4.0.12 Runtime: 4.0.13
Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libdbusmenu-gtk.so.4. Host: 4.0.12 Runtime: 4.0.13
Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libGLU.so.1. Host: 1.3.1 Runtime: 1.3.8004
Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libpangox-1.0.so.0. Host: 0.0.0 Runtime: 0.3000.0
Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libdbus-1.so.3. Host: 3.19.4 Runtime: 3.5.8
Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0. Host: 0.2400.32 Runtime: 0.2400.10
Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libGLU.so.1. Host: 1.3.1 Runtime: 1.3.8004
Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libpangox-1.0.so.0. Host: 0.0.0 Runtime: 0.3000.0

Much appreciated.

Ppandalowry 2018-06-03 github

@kisak-valve thanx for solution! Today i got this problem, and me helps you solution:

rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/pinned_libs_32/ -rf

Nothing extracted yet.