Looks like a graphics drivers problem. The Crash ID shows the radeonsi driver in the stack. Steam is trying to use your onboard graphics and not the NVidia GPU, something is misconfigured on that path and causing a crash.
@troububbles try the flatpack version to see if it works for you, I have similar issue though running amdgpu, (linked by kisak)
Flatpack works but native in arch does not.
Flatpak was working, but I have done a system reinstallation and this issue is not happening now. Probably it was some library issue, I'm not sure what happened.
Glad to hear it's working for you. Unfortunately, that also means there's no longer a test case to continue pondering this issue. Closing as a system issue of some kind.
Glad to hear it's working for you. Unfortunately, that also means there's no longer a test case to continue pondering this issue. Closing as a system issue of some kind.
I can see if this issue is still occurring on native pkg for me, If you need some kind of debugging or crash reports let me know.
This still occurs in the native pkg, Any ideas? @kisak-valve
steam.sh[14032]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[14032]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[14104]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[14032]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
[2023-01-08 23:28:31] Startup - updater built Jun 7 2022 03:18:19
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer
crash_20230108232831_2.dmp[14158]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20230108232831_2.dmp
~/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 794: 14151 Aborted (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
crash_20230108232831_2.dmp[14158]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20230108232831_2.dmp[14158]: response: CrashID=bp-298f9e2f-4fc0-4951-b320-d9d6b2230108
crash_20230108232831_2.dmp[14158]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20230108232831_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-298f9e2f-4fc0-4951-b320-d9d6b2230108'
running with gdb
Starting program: /home/commander/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[2023-01-09 02:31:30] Startup - updater built Jun 7 2022 03:18:19
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
[New Thread 0xeb7ffb40 (LWP 13227)]
[New Thread 0xeacbeb40 (LWP 13228)]
[New Thread 0xea2ffb40 (LWP 13229)]
[New Thread 0xe98ffb40 (LWP 13230)]
munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer
Thread 1 "steam" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xf7fc6549 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0xf7fc6549 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xf7889667 in __pthread_kill_implementation (threadid=threadid@entry=4158933824, signo=signo@entry=6, no_tid=no_tid@entry=0) at pthread_kill.c:43
#2 0xf78896ef in __pthread_kill_internal (signo=6, threadid=4158933824) at pthread_kill.c:78
#3 0xf7835677 in __GI_raise (sig=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:26
#4 0xf781e126 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:79
#5 0xf787b6a4 in __libc_message (action=<optimized out>, fmt=<optimized out>) at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:155
#6 0xf7894d2f in malloc_printerr (str=str@entry=0xf79c03b8 "munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer") at malloc.c:5660
#7 0xf789504b in munmap_chunk (p=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3054
#8 0xf78994cd in __GI___libc_free (mem=0xf7acfc8d <XInitThreads+13>) at malloc.c:3375
#9 0xf7ae75db in XFree (data=0xf7acfc8d <XInitThreads+13>) at /usr/src/debug/lib32-libx11/libX11-1.8.3/src/XlibInt.c:1633
[#10](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/10) 0x565b4d83 in ?? ()
[#11](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/11) 0x565b58de in ?? ()
[#12](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/12) 0x56595d40 in ?? ()
[#13](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/13) 0x5657d7fe in ?? ()
[#14](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/14) 0xf781f119 in __libc_start_call_main (main=main@entry=0x5657d7d0, argc=argc@entry=1, argv=argv@entry=0xffffcc54) at ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
[#15](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/15) 0xf781f1ed in __libc_start_main_impl (main=0x5657d7d0, argc=1, argv=0xffffcc54, init=0x569c7610 <__libc_csu_init>, fini=0x569c7680 <__libc_csu_fini>, rtld_fini=0xf7fcc950 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xffffcc4c) at ../csu/libc-start.c:381
[#16](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/16) 0x5658323d in _start ()
Finally found the issue and solved it!!
Had NoExtract = usr/share/X11/locale/* in pacman.conf, probably taken from a old wiki regarding only installing languages you need. Not sure why it just started but removing that line and reinstalling lib32-libx11 and libx11 fixed it. More info: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77396
Nothing extracted yet.
Your system information
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Steam is not launching on my system, on the console it shows these messages:
I have tried deleting "~/.steam", "~/.local/share/Steam", "~/.config/Valve Corporation", and reinstalling Steam, but it didn't make any difference. I also updated my whole system and the problem persists. The problem occurs both in the standard kernel and on Zen kernel, on X11 and Wayland. I am using the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
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