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angelo

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Registered: 2015-12-28

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[SOLVED] Steam not launching

Steam now crashes on launch for me.
I update somewhat regularly, so possibly this follows a general update.
It was working this morning, and there was no update between that and the first crash, but possibly it was just already running.

Current error:

XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_US.UTF-8
XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_US.UTF-8XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf6142370
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf6140cc0
crash_20260515181335_5.dmp[2561]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20260515181335_5.dmp
/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 966:  2505 Segmentation fault         (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
crash_20260515181335_5.dmp[2561]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20260515181335_5.dmp[2561]: response: CrashID=bp-49cbea19-60d0-4b1c-af82-3ded12260515
crash_20260515181335_5.dmp[2561]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20260515181335_5.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-49cbea19-60d0-4b1c-af82-3ded12260515''

This seems the same error as https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=313292 , though the problem there was nvidia driver version, and this laptop does not have any nvidia, so seems unrelated:

                                         
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1355U (12) @ 5.00 GHz
GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.30 GHz [Integrated]

EDIT: correct link is https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=312699

Last edited by angelo (Yesterday 21:54:07)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam not launching

the problem there was nvidia driver version

No, the problem in the other thread was that SDL was configured to prefer wayland over x11 and the environment was bogus (SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER is supposed to be comma separated, too) and the hint was in webhelper.txt

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angelo

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam not launching

Sorry - the link above is the wrong thread. (also steam not launching, but different errors and causes).

The one with the same errors as I get, (fixed with nvidia drivers) is https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=312699

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam not launching

That's lacking the multilib repos (though those should™ no longer be required, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#U … ine_builds )
Do you have those (and specifically lib32-mesa/vulkan-intel)?

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angelo

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam not launching

thanks. I do have the needed mesa and vulkan packages.

the gdb trace pointed towards an issue with lib32. glxinfo32 crashed as well on launch.

ldconfig -v gave further hints, for corrupted libraries:

ldconfig: /usr/lib32/libLTO.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
ldconfig: /usr/lib32/libLTO.so.22.1 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
ldconfig: /usr/lib32/libRemarks.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
ldconfig: /usr/lib32/libRemarks.so.22.1 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. 

I had to reinstall lib32-llvm-libs, telling pacman to overwrite the existing files, after which all seems to be working.

I'm still not sure how these libs got corrupted.

Last edited by angelo (Yesterday 22:00:21)