Steam crashes on startup, logs: assert (r_state == RT_CONSISTENT)

AnArchNoobie14 · 2024-04-29 13:50:21

Hi, recently I did a full system update, and steam worked well. I also needed to install glib-eac which I installed directly as the AUR package didn't work for me.
Things went well, and I am not sure if it is related but now (perhaps after some restarts) steam won't launch - it prints:

[user@userPC ~]$ steam
steam.sh[2506]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[2506]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[2579]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[2506]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
tid(2632) burning pthread_key_t == 0 so we never use it
[2024-04-29 16:40:55] Startup - updater built Mar  6 2024 20:27:25
[2024-04-29 16:40:55] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
04/29 16:40:55 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1709846872)/tid(2632)
crash_20240429164055_2.dmp[2635]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20240429164055_2.dmp
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 813:  2632 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"                                                             
[user@userPC ~]$ crash_20240429164055_2.dmp[2635]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes                                                                            
crash_20240429164055_2.dmp[2635]: response: CrashID=bp-30838165-a975-4aad-a344-12e252240429  
crash_20240429164055_2.dmp[2635]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20240429164055_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-30838165-a975-4aad-a344-12e252240429''                                         
[user@userPC ~]$ steam
steam.sh[2646]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit                                         
steam.sh[2646]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically                                       
setup.sh[2719]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!                                        
steam.sh[2646]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied                                                                                                                                     
tid(2772) burning pthread_key_t == 0 so we never use it
[2024-04-29 16:41:02] Startup - updater built Mar  6 2024 20:27:25
[2024-04-29 16:41:02] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
04/29 16:41:02 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1709846872)/tid(2772)
crash_20240429164102_2.dmp[2775]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20240429164102_2.dmp
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 813:  2772 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
[user@userPC ~]$ crash_20240429164102_2.dmp[2775]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20240429164102_2.dmp[2775]: response: CrashID=bp-1e419ead-1018-4e18-b714-661d72240429
crash_20240429164102_2.dmp[2775]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20240429164102_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-1e419ead-1018-4e18-b714-661d72240429''

Additionally, checking the core dump revealed:

[user@userPC ~]$ coredumpctl gdb steam
           PID: 2772 (steam)
           UID: 1000 (user)
           GID: 1000 (user)
        Signal: 11 (SEGV)
     Timestamp: Mon 2024-04-29 16:41:02 IDT (37s ago)
  Command Line: /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
    Executable: /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
 Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-2.scope
          Unit: session-2.scope
         Slice: user-1000.slice
       Session: 2
     Owner UID: 1000 (user)
       Boot ID: 3316062a7b094ef5b59da4f869fccbe7
    Machine ID: 6b489bf659e345daa93082712936c42e
      Hostname: userPC
       Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.steam.1000.3316062a7b094ef5b59da4f869fccbe7.2772.1714398062000000.zst (present)
  Size on Disk: 12.7M
       Message: Process 2772 (steam) of user 1000 dumped core.
                
                Stack trace of thread 2772:
                #0  0x00000000e8b00348 _dl_open (ld-linux.so.2 + 0xc348)
                #1  0x00000000e874365c dlopen_doit (libc.so.6 + 0x8a65c)
                #2  0x00000000e8af553e __GI__dl_catch_exception (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x153e)
                #3  0x00000000e8af5689 _dl_catch_error (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x1689)
                #4  0x00000000e87430e9 __GI__dlerror_run (libc.so.6 + 0x8a0e9)
                #5  0x00000000e8743722 dlopen_implementation (libc.so.6 + 0x8a722)
                #6  0x00000000e8063d8e n/a (libGLX.so.0 + 0x27d8e)
                #7  0x00000000e8066605 n/a (libGLX.so.0 + 0x2a605)
                #8  0x00000000e8066706 glXChooseVisual (libGLX.so.0 + 0x2a706)
                #9  0x0000000059e77afc n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x69afc)
                #10 0x0000000059e42a70 n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x34a70)
                #11 0x00000000e86ddb8f __libc_start_call_main (libc.so.6 + 0x24b8f)
                #12 0x00000000e86ddc5e __libc_start_main_impl (libc.so.6 + 0x24c5e)
                #13 0x0000000059e47875 n/a (/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x39875)
                ELF object binary architecture: Intel 80386

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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0xe8b00348 in _dl_open (file=0x5c0a4a00 "libGLX_nvidia.so.0", mode=-2147483647, caller_dlopen=0xe8063d8e <__glXLookupVendorByName+1294>, nsid=<optimized out>, argc=1, argv=0xfff83a74, 
    env=0x5c0abd40) at dl-open.c:953
953       assert (r_state == RT_CONSISTENT);
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Any help would be appreciated. I tried installing glibc and it did show that it upgrades something, but it didn't change the error.

Last edited by AnArchNoobie14 (2024-04-29 13:50:55)

Fubukers · 2024-05-02 14:31:51

Have you managed to fix it? After updating packages i'm having the same issue.

marko154 · 2024-05-02 14:39:40

I can also confirm this. After updating today, I'm having the same issue. However, I do not have glib-eac installed as mentioned by op.

snx9 · 2024-05-02 14:41:37

it seems to be a bad package , had the same issues and segfault on steam startup.

seems to get fixed by reinstalling old lib32-glibc.
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-glibc-2.39-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Endali · 2024-05-02 14:53:43

snx9 wrote:

it seems to be a bad package , had the same issues and segfault on steam startup.
seems to get fixed by reinstalling old lib32-glibc.
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-glibc-2.39-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Yup, this solved the problem for me as well, thanks a lot!

TheCaRp · 2024-05-02 14:58:17

I think this may be related.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … sues/10801

JLSalvador · 2024-05-02 15:42:46

Hi @freswa!

Can you revert or fix the package lib32-glibc? Thank you for your work.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … sues/10841

I can try to do a git bisect later.

Last edited by JLSalvador (2024-05-02 15:44:46)

Fubukers · 2024-05-02 16:16:28

Endali wrote:

snx9 wrote:
it seems to be a bad package , had the same issues and segfault on steam startup.
seems to get fixed by reinstalling old lib32-glibc.
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-glibc-2.39-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Yup, this solved the problem for me as well, thanks a lot!

Here i also provide a link to that package if it's not in a pacman cache
https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/ … kg.tar.zst

Then simply run a command: sudo pacman -U lib32-glibc-2.39-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Invalid_Profile · 2024-05-02 19:09:38

Same issue here.

There's a segfault occurring in

/lib/ld-linux.so.2

which seems to be the dynamic linker/loader for glibc 32-bit stuff. Guess we just gotta wait for maintainers/devs to figure out what's up.

Here's the wiki link to the package archive if anyone needs more info on how to downgrade packages:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive

Last edited by Invalid_Profile (2024-05-02 19:10:14)

JLSalvador · 2024-05-02 19:11:23

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … /issues/10

AnArchNoobie14 · 2024-05-03 09:15:53

snx9 wrote:

it seems to be a bad package , had the same issues and segfault on steam startup.
seems to get fixed by reinstalling old lib32-glibc.
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-glibc-2.39-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Can confirm it fixes the issue (OP)

Last edited by AnArchNoobie14 (2024-05-03 09:16:43)

JLSalvador · 2024-05-03 10:44:39

AnArchNoobie14 wrote:

snx9 wrote:
it seems to be a bad package , had the same issues and segfault on steam startup.
seems to get fixed by reinstalling old lib32-glibc.
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-glibc-2.39-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Can confirm it fixes the issue (OP)

It was fixed (2.39-4), not need to downgrade anymore. :-)

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/lib32-glibc/lib32-glibc-2.39-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Last edited by JLSalvador (2024-05-03 10:45:31)

millus · 2024-05-03 10:51:43

JLSalvador wrote:

AnArchNoobie14 wrote:
snx9 wrote:
it seems to be a bad package , had the same issues and segfault on steam startup.
seems to get fixed by reinstalling old lib32-glibc.
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-glibc-2.39-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Can confirm it fixes the issue (OP)
It was fixed (2.39-4), not need to downgrade anymore. :-)
sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/lib32-glibc/lib32-glibc-2.39-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

I just did a full Syu and it was still _not_ fixed, so had to downgrade.

Last edited by millus (2024-05-03 11:03:47)

JLSalvador · 2024-05-03 11:09:09

millus wrote:

JLSalvador wrote:
AnArchNoobie14 wrote:

Can confirm it fixes the issue (OP)
It was fixed (2.39-4), not need to downgrade anymore. :-)
sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/lib32-glibc/lib32-glibc-2.39-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
I just did a full Syu and it was still _not_ fixed, so had to downgrade.

Because the -4 version is still in testing and not on the public branch yet, you can install it directly using the above code or simply wait until it is publicly available.

Thank you all! Less than 24 hours to fix something really tricky.

zebulon · 2024-05-03 12:51:09

Thanks for your work!

faetter · 2024-05-03 16:20:15

Awesome work guys, many thanks to all those involved!

g89vito · 2024-05-03 18:22:50

Hi

steam flatpak is affected also after -4 update
downgrade to glibc-2.39-2-x86_64 solve the problem

flatpak 1:1.15.8-1
glibc 2.39-4

Last edited by g89vito (2024-05-03 18:23:33)

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#1 2024-04-29 13:50:21

Steam crashes on startup, logs: assert (r_state == RT_CONSISTENT)

#2 2024-05-02 14:31:51

Re: Steam crashes on startup, logs: assert (r_state == RT_CONSISTENT)

#3 2024-05-02 14:39:40

Re: Steam crashes on startup, logs: assert (r_state == RT_CONSISTENT)

#4 2024-05-02 14:41:37

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#5 2024-05-02 14:53:43

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