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shaong

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Registered: 2016-12-07

Posts: 26

[SOLVED] Steam would not start due to XCB error

Hi,
Steam would not start suddenly after an unexpected crash and reboot.
The logs of starting is as follows.

Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]: ResourceScoreUpdated: "9d3d643d-2610-4e2e-ae96-54382f667065" "org.kde.krunner" "applications:steam.desktop"
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]:          New score :  45.3184
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]: Interval length is  0
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]:        Last update :  QDateTime(2017-06-04 00:49:47.000 +08 Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime))
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]:       First update :  QDateTime(2017-05-10 00:34:45.000 +08 Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime))
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]:      Current score :  44.3184
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]: After the adjustment
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]:        Last update :  QDateTime(2017-06-04 00:49:47.000 +08 Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime))
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]:       First update :  QDateTime(2017-05-10 00:34:45.000 +08 Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime))
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]: Already in database?  true
Jun 04 00:55:30 waifu kactivitymanagerd[714]: Creating the cache for:  "applications:steam.desktop"
Jun 04 00:55:28 waifu kwin_x11[640]: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 39709, resource id: 44042817, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Jun 04 00:55:28 waifu kwin_x11[640]: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 39631, resource id: 44042814, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0

Couldn't find any solutions around the net, hope someone could identify the problem.
DE: KDE Plasma 5.10
Qt Version: 5.8.0
Kernel Version: 4.11

Last edited by shaong (2017-06-04 15:21:55)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Steam would not start due to XCB error

Nothing in that output indicates a crash, the "BadWindow" is simply Kwin telling you that it tried to access a window that doesn't exist anymore, this is completely normal. Run the steam command in a terminal and post the output of that.

shaong

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Registered: 2016-12-07

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] Steam would not start due to XCB error

Nothing in that output indicates a crash, the "BadWindow" is simply Kwin telling you that it tried to access a window that doesn't exist anymore, this is completely normal. Run the steam command in a terminal and post the output of that.

[shaong@waifu ~]$ steam
/usr/lib/steam/steam: line 199: /home/shaong/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: Success

shaong

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Registered: 2016-12-07

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] Steam would not start due to XCB error

Fixed by uninstalling Steam, remove Steam folder from ~/.local/share, installed Steam again.