Steam no longer loading up on Arch

steamclosed Distro Family: Arch

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8401 · opened 2022-02-09 by LiamDawe · updated 2022-02-09 · 4 comments · github

LLiamDawe 2022-02-09 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): Can't check, won't load
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux
Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I upgraded to the latest version of Arch packages as of today, now Steam won't load up.

Log of it trying to load: https://gist.github.com/LiamDawe/d3ef8693101ee687bb426e461a5bebf1

Crash dump attached:

crash_20220209143620_15.tar.gz

Not sure how to get you full system specs of everything as usual, since the Steam client won't load to grab it from there.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-02-09 github

For reference, the attached minidump is a SIGSEGV in libc-2.33.so coming from libnss_mymachines.so.2. Is the latter something that's changed recently by a system update?

LLiamDawe 2022-02-09 github

Quite likely yes. As noted I did the latest (at time of ticket) Arch updates.

LLiamDawe 2022-02-09 github

A downgrade of libnss_nis to 3.1-2 enables Steam to load again. So libnss_nis 3.1-3 is the problem here.

LLiamDawe 2022-02-09 github

Upgrading again and....it now works fine.

So something something random upgrade fubar.

Nothing extracted yet.