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Steam beta crashes along with the game when requesting sound input

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#9004 · opened 2022-12-16 by GregTheMadMonk · updated 2022-12-16 · 2 comments · github
GGregTheMadMonk 2022-12-16 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Dec 15 2022 02:03:59
  • 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:

The issue first appeared after an update when I tried to launch Nightmare Reaper.
The game crashed on launch, and Steam crashed with it.
At first, I thought it was a game-specific problem, as other games worked, but when I tried to use voice chat in Half-Life it happened again.
Inspecting the core dump reveals that alcCaptureOpenDevice() fails and crashes both the game and steam.
Full gdb backtrace:

#0  0xf7ee4549 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xf7a89667 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libc.so.6
#2  0xf7a35677 in raise () from /usr/lib32/libc.so.6
#3  0xf7a1e126 in abort () from /usr/lib32/libc.so.6
#4  0xedaca235 in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#5  0xedb61c89 in __gxx_personality_v0 () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/vgui2_s.so
#6  0xf416f834 in _Unwind_RaiseException_Phase2 (exc=0xd91995a0, context=0xe97fd310, frames_p=0xe97fd390) at /usr/src/debug/gcc/libgcc/unwind.inc:64
#7  0xf416fd88 in _Unwind_RaiseException (exc=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/gcc/libgcc/unwind.inc:136
#8  0xee286836 in __cxxabiv1::__cxa_throw (obj=0xd91995c0, tinfo=0xeda3a7d8, dest=0xed988800) at /usr/src/debug/gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:93
#9  0xed94a5fe in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libopenal.so.1
[#10](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/10) 0xed97cb85 in alcCaptureOpenDevice () from /usr/lib32/libopenal.so.1
[#11](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/11) 0xeb2f754e in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#12](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/12) 0xeb2f7609 in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#13](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/13) 0xeb2e63fb in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#14](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/14) 0xeae15544 in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#15](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/15) 0xeaa96113 in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#16](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/16) 0xeaca34e8 in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#17](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/17) 0xeae5067f in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#18](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/18) 0xeaca2f17 in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#19](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/19) 0xeae4d6c2 in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#20](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/20) 0xeae4fa85 in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#21](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/21) 0xeae50231 in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steamclient.so
[#22](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/22) 0xf2c0f19e in SteamThreadTools::CThread::ThreadExceptionWrapper(void*) () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#23](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/23) 0xf2c0ca0e in ?? () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#24](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/24) 0xf2c0d2d0 in CatchAndWriteMiniDumpExForVoidPtrFn () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#25](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/25) 0xf2c0d318 in CatchAndWriteMiniDumpForVoidPtrFn () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#26](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/26) 0xf2c11c21 in SteamThreadTools::CThread::ThreadProc(void*) () from /home/greg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/libtier0_s.so
[#27](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/27) 0xf7a87485 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libc.so.6
[#28](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/28) 0xf7b24efc in ?? () from /usr/lib32/libc.so.6

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Launch the latest Steam Beta
  2. Try to run a game that uses a microphone (for me these were Nightmare Reaper and Half-Life)
  3. Both game and steam would crash when trying to access the microphone
Bbananarne 2022-12-16 github

most likely clone of https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/8930 but the backtrace says more than mine

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-12-16 github

Hello @GregTheMadMonk, I agree with @bananarne that this is the same issue as #8930. Since this issue report adds a little more detail, I've gone ahead and transferred the issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/8930#issuecomment-1354861728.

Closing in favor of the older issue report.

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