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General controller settings crashes Steam Client

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8783 · opened 2022-09-06 by Zrocket · updated 2022-09-20 · 5 comments · github
ZZrocket 2022-09-06 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Aug 31 2022, at 04:28:42
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Manjaro
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes, but reproducible outside of beta.
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

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Steam client will crash any time I attempt to access General Controller Settings. I have reinstalled and even downgraded NVIDIA graphics drivers (515.65.01 and 470.141.03), but with no noticeable difference.

This might also be related to another bug where attempting to start BigPicture mode will also crash the client.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Start Steam client
  2. Go to Controller settings
  3. Press General Controller Settings
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-09-06 github

Possibly related to some of the feedback on #8695.

ZZrocket 2022-09-07 github

That's correct; both issues appeared around the same time. I suspect SteamVR might also be effected, but I'm less able to consistently reproduce the issue there. But that might just speak to my lack of VR hardware to test with.

ZZrocket 2022-09-07 github

How might I provide a crash dump?

ZZrocket 2022-09-08 github

I've discovered something weird while trying to debug this myself: running 'strace -f steam' somehow prevents the crash from happening. Everything seems to work, but only with strace -f.

TTTimo 2022-09-16 github

I agree with @kisak-valve this is probably https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/8695, that button launches a big picture UI window ..

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