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Random steam crash

steamopen Distro Family: Gentoo
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8476 · opened 2022-03-12 by Elserjo · updated 2022-03-12 · 0 comments · github
EElserjo 2022-03-12 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1647024114 (With official steam runtime libraries)
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Gentoo (5.16.12), glibc-2.33-r13
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When steam randomly crashes i see this error in dmesg:

CJobMgr::m_Work[2053]: segfault at 582c6 ip 00000000f792c36a sp 00000000ddefced0 error 4 in libc-2.33.so[f7913000+153000]

I have little inspected coredump in gdb:

#0  0xf792c36a in getenv () at /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0xddd3893c in  () at /usr/lib/libnss_mymachines.so.2
#2  0xf7d180be in __pthread_once_slow () at /lib/libpthread.so.0
#3  0xddd05ebd in _nss_mymachines_gethostbyname4_r () at /usr/lib/libnss_mymachines.so.2
#4  0xf79de16c in  () at /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0xf79deac9 in getaddrinfo () at /lib/libc.so.6
#6  0xdfd40724 in  () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
#7  0xdfd40cce in  () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
#8  0xe00b01ae in  () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
#9  0xdf0d813f in  () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#10](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/10) 0xdf0d8371 in  () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#11](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/11) 0xe0066a55 in  () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#12](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/12) 0xe0231e44 in  () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#13](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/13) 0xed3f9880 in SteamThreadTools::CThread::ThreadExceptionWrapper(void*) () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#14](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/14) 0xed3f76db in  () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#15](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/15) 0xed3f79df in CatchAndWriteMiniDumpExForVoidPtrFn () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#16](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/16) 0xed3f7a31 in CatchAndWriteMiniDumpForVoidPtrFn () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#17](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/17) 0xed3fc48c in SteamThreadTools::CThread::ThreadProc(void*) () at /home/serg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#18](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/18) 0xf7d0fdcc in start_thread () at /lib/libpthread.so.0
[#19](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/19) 0xf79fa556 in clone () at /lib/libc.so.6

I need to add, that after a crash in successfully launches again.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Press steam icon on desktop
  2. Randomly It wont launch

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