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Steam crashes after a short while if ConnectCache lines are present in config.vdf

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6101 · opened 2019-02-21 by dailylhama · updated 2019-02-21 · 0 comments · github
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Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 150534751 (build date Feb 18 2019, 22:09:18)
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Kubuntu 18.10
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Since about 2 month Steam kept crashing. It worked between 10 seconds and 5 minutes before crashing with a segfault (terminal output was: '/home/username/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: Zeile 889: 6533 Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"'). After "steam --reset" (or later on a complete reinstall) this was fine - until steam started for the second time. This even happened without editing the config or adding games. After quite some trial I discovered that it could be fixed by deleting the following lines from config.vdf before starting steam:

				"ConnectCache"
				{
					"(9 numbers/letters of hash)"		"(56 numbers/letters of hash)"
				}

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Start Steam
  2. Wait a little while
  3. Crash

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