Steam crashing when running

CanibalCorp · 2025-07-10 13:23:13

Hi
I have a fresh install of arch Linux, running hyprland + wayland. I am trying to run steam on it, but it crashes.

Tried using steam-native instead, but i get pretty much the same result. I also looked at an older post on this wiki with the same issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=273350
Ran:

 localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8

but i am still encountering the same error.

I have read the steam arch wiki serveral times, but to no avail I no expert on this, but i hope these snippets helps narrow down the issue. Let me know if i missed something

steam:

 
steam.sh[6302]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[6302]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[6377]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[6302]: Log already open
steam.sh[6302]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2025-07-10 14:53:13] Startup - updater built Sep 17 2024 20:02:19
[2025-07-10 14:53:13] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened'
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
07/10 14:53:13 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
07/10 14:53:13 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(6417)
crash_20250710145313_2.dmp[6420]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20250710145313_2.dmp
/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 906:  6417 Bus error               (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

crash_20250710145313_2.dmp[6420]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20250710145313_2.dmp[6420]: response: CrashID=bp-5812aada-13f5-41f0-93d1-8960e2250710
crash_20250710145313_2.dmp[6420]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20250710145313_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-5812aada-13f5-41f0-93d1-8960e2250710''

Journalctl:

Jul 10 14:53:13 baltazar systemd-coredump[6421]: Process 6417 (steam) of user 1000 terminated abnormally with signal 7/BUS, processing...
Jul 10 14:53:14 baltazar systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 6421/UID 0).
Jul 10 14:53:14 baltazar systemd-coredump[6423]: Process 6417 (steam) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                 
                                                 Stack trace of thread 6417:
                                                 #0  0x00000000f7f674a7 n/a (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x244a7)
                                                 #1  0x00000000f7f4a6f4 n/a (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x76f4)
                                                 #2  0x00000000f7f4bd93 n/a (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x8d93)
                                                 #3  0x00000000f7f468f8 n/a (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x38f8)
                                                 #4  0x00000000f7f4559d _dl_catch_exception (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x259d)
                                                 #5  0x00000000f7f46d9a n/a (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x3d9a)
                                                 #6  0x00000000f7f4f79a n/a (ld-linux.so.2 + 0xc79a)
                                                 #7  0x00000000f7f4559d _dl_catch_exception (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x259d)
                                                 #8  0x00000000f7f4ee30 n/a (ld-linux.so.2 + 0xbe30)
                                                 #9  0x00000000f7f4559d _dl_catch_exception (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x259d)
                                                 #10 0x00000000f7f4f2d2 n/a (ld-linux.so.2 + 0xc2d2)
                                                 #11 0x00000000f7b6817a n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8e17a)
                                                 #12 0x00000000f7f4559d _dl_catch_exception (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x259d)
                                                 #13 0x00000000f7f456c9 n/a (ld-linux.so.2 + 0x26c9)
                                                 #14 0x00000000f7b67bd7 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8dbd7)
                                                 #15 0x00000000f7b6824c dlopen (libc.so.6 + 0x8e24c)
                                                 #16 0x00000000f7485d8e n/a (libGLX.so.0 + 0x27d8e)
                                                 #17 0x00000000f7488605 n/a (libGLX.so.0 + 0x2a605)
                                                 #18 0x00000000f7488706 glXChooseVisual (libGLX.so.0 + 0x2a706)
                                                 #19 0x00000000565d99fc _ZN18CBaseLinuxUpdateUI16BaseCreateWindowEv (/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x6b9fc)
                                                 #20 0x00000000565db28c _ZN17CXWindowsUpdateUI13BCreateWindowEv (/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x6d28c)
                                                 #21 0x00000000565b8c60 n/a (/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x4ac60)
                                                 #22 0x00000000565a21b0 main (/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x341b0)
                                                 #23 0x00000000f7afc575 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x22575)
                                                 #24 0x00000000f7afc64e __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2264e)
                                                 #25 0x00000000565a6f65 _start (/home/paul/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam + 0x38f65)
                                                 ELF object binary architecture: Intel 80386
Jul 10 14:53:14 baltazar systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@7-6421-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jul 10 14:53:15 baltazar crash_20250710145313_2.dmp[6420]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
Jul 10 14:53:15 baltazar crash_20250710145313_2.dmp[6420]: response: CrashID=bp-5812aada-13f5-41f0-93d1-8960e2250710
Jul 10 14:53:15 baltazar crash_20250710145313_2.dmp[6420]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20250710145313_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-5812aada-13f5-41f0-93d1-8960e2250710''

localectl:

System Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    VC Keymap: (unset)         
   X11 Layout: (unset)

locale:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

locale -a

C
C.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX

pacman:

vulkan-icd-loader 1.4.313.0-1
vulkan-radeon 1:25.1.5-1
steam 1.0.0.82-2
lib32-wayland 1.23.1-1
qt5-wayland 5.15.17+kde+r57-1
qt6-wayland 6.9.1-1
wayland 1.23.1-2
wayland-protocols 1.45-1
xorg-xwayland 24.1.8-1
lib32-mesa 1:25.1.5-1
mesa 1:25.1.5-1

V1del · 2025-07-10 16:33:54

What does

glxinfo32 -B #lib32-mesa-utils
printenv

give you? what is your GPU? And maybe a more complete journal

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Last edited by V1del (2025-07-10 16:41:35)

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#1 2025-07-10 13:23:13

Steam crashing when running

#2 2025-07-10 16:33:54

Re: Steam crashing when running

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