Steam client version (build number or date): Don’t know
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Lubuntu 18.04
Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Dont think so
Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes
When I try to startup steam i get GUI saying its checking for updates/verifying installation for a couple of seconds then it disappears and nothing apparent happens. Im not tech savvy and new to Linux therefor im unaware if the problem could be this laptops very old hardware or something else entirely.
Running steam from terminal results in this :
steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 18.04 32-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1528497815)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1528497815)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1528497815)
crash_20180719111442_1.dmp[9436]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20180719111442_1.dmp
/home/melanie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 876: 9427 Illegal instruction (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
crash_20180719111442_1.dmp[9436]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20180719111442_1.dmp[9436]: response: CrashID=bp-8f3a2312-094f-4338-9f6f-017412180719
crash_20180719111442_1.dmp[9436]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20180719111442_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-8f3a2312-094f-4338-9f6f-017412180719''
There's a decent chance you're hitting #5164 and you can check cat /proc/cpuinfo for pni in the cpu flags section (If cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep pni in a terminal returns nothing, then this issue is #5164).
My cpu is a pentium m and
flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe bts cpuid est tm2
so it is #5164, correct?
Steam client version (build number or date): Don’t know
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Lubuntu 18.04
Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Dont think so
Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes
When I try to startup steam i get GUI saying its checking for updates/verifying installation for a couple of seconds then it disappears and nothing apparent happens. Im not tech savvy and new to Linux therefor im unaware if the problem could be this laptops very old hardware or something else entirely.
Running steam from terminal results in this :
steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 18.04 32-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1528497815)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1528497815)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1528497815)
crash_20180719111442_1.dmp[9436]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20180719111442_1.dmp
/home/melanie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 876: 9427 Illegal instruction (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
crash_20180719111442_1.dmp[9436]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20180719111442_1.dmp[9436]: response: CrashID=bp-8f3a2312-094f-4338-9f6f-017412180719
crash_20180719111442_1.dmp[9436]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20180719111442_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-8f3a2312-094f-4338-9f6f-017412180719''