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VizCompositorTh segfault, steamwebhelper

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8318 · opened 2021-12-25 by bxkx · updated 2021-12-26 · 0 comments · github
Bbxkx 2021-12-25 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version:
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  • Distribution: Arch

  • Opted into Steam client beta? Yes

  • Have you checked for system updates? Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I've looked a bit more into the journallog and I've found this


Dec 23 20:55:24 computer audit[1750]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=1 pid=1750 comm="VizCompositorTh" exe="/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper" sig=11 res=1
Dec 23 20:55:24 computer kernel: VizCompositorTh[1793]: segfault at 1060 ip 00007fdf4eb07aa9 sp 00007fdf463132d8 error 4 in libGL.so.1.7.0[7fdf4eb04000+1b000]
Dec 23 20:55:24 computer kernel: Code: 00 48 8b 05 11 b5 03 00 64 4c 8b 18 41 ff a3 a0 0e 00 00 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 00 64 48 8b 04 25 f0 e9 ff ff <ff> a0 60 10 00 00 0e 00 00 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f

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Dec 23 20:55:28 computer systemd-coredump[41058]: Process 1750 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                               
                                               Found module /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper with build-id: 24853a214bd83a89944d9c285e278988f53cf3c1
                                               Found module /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libminigbm.so with build-id: e2a99b94888bfefe2322217766fb4f4d331f6f1b
                                               Found module /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 with build-id: 78094034f17e3dedfe56197caab8796890892cf5
                                               Found module /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so with build-id: 2aa8544fae633aa6049631bc673190c343c4789b

Full log: coredump.txt

This started happening a week ago, almost every day. I dug a bit more and found the earliest this happened on October 28. It happened for a couple of days and then it didn't. Very sporadic. for a while until it I first thought it was because I installed wlroots-git, xorg-xwayland to try out a Wayland session (which I haven't, never left the X11 session) and seeing that the coredump includes some GBM stuff it seemed this might have somehow been caused by having that stuff installed. But removing it didn't help as it is still occuring.
I thought it might be related to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/7370 - have had this issue for the first time recently and just 30 minutes after the segfault/coredump above, but I'm not sure if there is any relation.

I don't notice when it happens though. Steam doesn't crash, just behaves as usual. Sometimes black squares when scrolling in the client or the biggest issue I notice is when I bring up the minimized Steam window it sometimes opens only with a small delay/lag. But iirc these started before this issue.

I'm using Ryzen 5 1600, Nvidia GTX 1060, Nvidia driver 495.46