Hello @abranchiate, no OpenGL application, including the Steam client should be capable of crashing the entires system, which hints that you've encountered a video driver or kernel issue. What video card are you using?
Since you're using the nvidia 390 series, I suspect you're using a Fermi generation video card which does not support vulkan and are expected to fail the basic vulkan initialization test, and vulkandriverquery failing is a red herring. That timestamp should align with Steam client startup, not when the system kernel panics.
Hello,
thank you for your fast reply. I am using a Lenovo G780 Notebook, which has a Nvidia GeForce GT 630M. Yes, it is a Fermi architecture video card.
Can i support you with any more information like logs etc. to shed light on the issue? Or is this a problem that i need to address to the Kernel/Driver maintainers?
Can i support you with any more information like logs etc. to shed light on the issue? Or is this a problem that i need to address to the Kernel/Driver maintainers?
You could try seeing if the issue persists with Nouveau. If it does, this is probably NVIDIA's bug, if not, Linux' bug.
Hello,
thank you very much for your support. I will close this Issue, because it can not to be caused by the steam client.
FYI:
I tried to capture the Kernel Panic Message for further research, which worked by redirecting systemd-output to tty, but it was too long to be read completely. I tried to generate the Issue again with enabled Kernel Parameter pause_on_oops=10, but could not recreate the problem.
I noticed, that my remaining Downloads just completed after the last Kernel Panic. Since then, everything is running fine, so i suspect the Issue has something to do with Downloads, because it first occurred, after i started some, too.
It didn't happen, while the client was minimized, so, for now, i will stick to minimizing the client, when downloading.
Your system information
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Opening the Steam Client and waiting a few minutes causes a Core Dump and a Kernel Panic. The Core Dump looks as follows:
Jul 05 12:49:02 archlinux systemd-coredump[15660]: Process 15647 (vulkandriverque) of user 1000 dumped core.
Process 15647 (vulkandriverque) of user 1000 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 15647:
#0 0x00007fb7e7434355 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3c355)
#1 0x00007fb7e741d853 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x25853)
#2 0x00007fb7e741d727 __assert_fail_base.cold (libc.so.6 + 0x25727)
#3 0x00007fb7e742c936 __assert_fail (libc.so.6 + 0x34936)
#4 0x00005630bd9ed467 n/a (/home/xxx/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/vulkandriverquery + 0xd6467)
#5 0x00005630bd9d4277 n/a (/home/xxx/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/vulkandriverquery + 0xbd277)
#6 0x00007fb7e741f002 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27002)
#7 0x00005630bd9d40ea n/a (/home/xxx/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/vulkandriverquery + 0xbd0ea)
Steps for reproducing this issue:
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Everything worked perfectly fine until i performed a full system upgrade approximately a week ago. It first occurred, after i started some downloads. Downloading is still incomplete.
I would guess, the problem is related to solved Issue #6230 or Issue #7160 and has something to do with my installed drivers.
There are some Issues regarding Arch Linux and Core Dumps since mid May 2020. This might be connected.
I have got the following packages installed: