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Steam SIGSEGV on strchr() call in GNU libc

steamopen Steam clientDistro Family: Fedora
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7633 · opened 2021-01-30 by adrianrlaw · updated 2021-01-30 · 0 comments · github
Aadrianrlaw 2021-01-30 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Jan 30, 2021 (1611978348?)
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 33 64-bit
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I tried running steam today with the latest update, but steam refused to launch. I tried running it through my terminal, and it pointed to a segfault in glibc for some reason. I used gdb to see if I can figure out what was wrong, but I was only able to get the fact that it received the segfault at some strchr call.

gdb output
libc version: glibc 2.32-3

I'm not sure if this is an issue with the libraries on my system itself. I've tried reinstalling glibc from the fedora repos.

Nothing extracted yet.