Hello @Acetsetebos, failing to set thread priority is a red herring. What video card / driver version are you using?
@kisak-valve
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)
driver = i915
Do you have a bunch of games installed? (hundreds)
If Steam is sitting there stalled without a fatal error, you may be encountering #7117.
I had less than ten games installed. Also steam doesn't stall when I launch it, it crashes immediately after the connecting to account window closes.
There's no fatal error in the terminal spew in the opening post, implying that Steam either stalled or is running in the background.
Can you check if it is running in the background? Worse case scenario you can kill it with pkill -9 steam. After that, if you run steam from a terminal, does it give the same output and come back to a command prompt or just sit there?
I checked my gui task manager and didn't see any steam related processes running.
I ran pkill -9 steam just in case then launched steam in terminal, and I got the same crash and error message, after the crash the terminal's command prompt pops back up.
Can you check if the distro-provided Steam package is redirecting any useful hints to ~/.steam/error.log?
Here's the contents of the error.log file https://gist.github.com/Acetsetebos/2d7beb8113136bdc5e12258d1434b437
The line at the very bottom reads: /home/caleb/.steam/debian-installation/steam.sh: line 750: 2680 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@" and I assume that has something to do with the crash.
I see steam -nominidumps -nobreakpad - looks like distro modified package. Consider replacing the distro version of steam with the official package - see http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ for details.
Solved!
After installing the .deb package from the page @TTimo linked I was still getting the same error as before, but the error now contained the line vulkan: No DRI3 support
So I added this line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "DRI" "3"
EndSection
And after a restart, steam works just fine.
kxrxn98@pop-os:~$ steam
Running Steam on pop 20.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Steam client's requirements are satisfied
/home/kxrxn98/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam -nominidumps -nobreakpad
[2020-08-31 16:01:35] Startup - updater built Aug 30 2020 20:57:23
[2020-08-31 16:01:36] Verifying installation...
[2020-08-31 16:01:36] Verification complete
STEAM_RUNTIME_HEAVY: ./steam-runtime-heavy
Warning: failed to set thread priority: set failed for 4: -1: setpriority() failed
Warning: failed to set thread priority: set failed for priority 4
Warning: support for elevated priorities is most likely unavailable, suppressing future warnings
Warning: failed to set thread priority: set failed for 4: -1: setpriority() failed
Warning: failed to set thread priority: set failed for priority 4
Warning: support for elevated priorities is most likely unavailable, suppressing future warnings
[2020-08-31 16:02:20] Shutdown
Any help would be appriciated
Please see https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/7193#issuecomment-645666757 - use the official Steam packaging that does not disable crash reporting.
Please see [#7193 (comment)](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/7193#issuecomment-645666757) - use the official Steam packaging that does not disable crash reporting.
Yup, that doesn't work for me.
Right, but it should offer more information about what is failing rather than silently shutdown. Do you get a crash dump and a crash upload ID?
Right, but it should offer more information about what is failing rather than silently shutdown. Do you get a crash dump and a crash upload ID?
I installed linuxmint because it showed a few extra errors about gtk 2.0. While it removed the gtk errors the setpriority() problem still persisted so I used the method from #7193 (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/7193#issuecomment-645666757) but now the gtk errors came back, so I reverted back to the distro version for steam. The main issue I think is setpriority() error, while steam launches correctly but I cannot run any games with proton.
Your system information
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
I installed steam through my distro's package manager and it was working just fine for awhile, but now when I try to open it I get this error:
Running Steam on ubuntu 20.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Steam client's requirements are satisfied
/home/caleb/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam -nominidumps -nobreakpad
[2020-06-13 11:21:19] Startup - updater built Jun 4 2020 05:50:42
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2020-06-13 11:21:21] Checking for update on startup
[2020-06-13 11:21:21] Checking for available updates...
[2020-06-13 11:21:21] Downloading manifest: client-download.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2020-06-13 11:21:21] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1591251555, installed version 1591251555
[2020-06-13 11:21:21] Nothing to do
[2020-06-13 11:21:21] Verifying installation...
[2020-06-13 11:21:21] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2020-06-13 11:21:26] Verification complete
STEAM_RUNTIME_HEAVY: ./steam-runtime-heavy
Warning: failed to set thread priority: set failed for 4: -1: setpriority() failed
Warning: failed to set thread priority: set failed for priority 4
Warning: support for elevated priorities is most likely unavailable, suppressing future warnings
Steps for reproducing this issue:
sudo apt install steam-installer¯\_(ツ)_/¯