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raftingwalk

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Registered: 2020-11-24

Posts: 5

Crash when running steam on fresh install

After a fresh install, I installed steam and got a crash. My main problem is that I don't know where I should look because the output of the terminal doesn't have anything that I find useful. Also tried "DEBUGGER=gdb steam" but I found nothing interesting.

Output of the command "steam"

Setting up Steam content in /home/miguel/.local/share/Steam
Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins potentially out-of-date, rebuilding...
Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
/run/media/sda3/miguel/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
[2020-12-08 20:55:11] Startup - updater built Oct 28 2020 23:34:22
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
crash_20201208205511_1.dmp[8441]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20201208205511_1.dmp
/run/media/sda3/miguel/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 750:  8427 Floating point exception(core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
[miguel@miguel-pc ~]$ crash_20201208205511_1.dmp[8441]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20201208205511_1.dmp[8441]: response: CrashID=bp-9cd5747a-8e64-4134-8585-3771a2201208
crash_20201208205511_1.dmp[8441]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20201208205511_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-9cd5747a-8e64-4134-8585-3771a2201208''

Output of "DEBUGGER=gdb steam"

Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
gdb -x miguel.steam.gdb.l8BS --args /run/media/sda3/miguel/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
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Reading symbols from /run/media/sda3/miguel/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam...
(No debugging symbols found in /run/media/sda3/miguel/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam)

I know the dumps are on /tmp/dumps, what I don't know is how to read them to understand what is going on!

What should I do now?

Thanks.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,353

Re: Crash when running steam on fresh install

Read the Steam installation prerequisites: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#Installation in particular the necessity to have an en_us locale generated.

raftingwalk

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Registered: 2020-11-24

Posts: 5

Re: Crash when running steam on fresh install

Read the Steam installation prerequisites: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#Installation in particular the necessity to have an en_us locale generated.

I'm almost 100% sure all the prerequisites are fulfilled.
This is my "locale" output.

[miguel@miguel-pc ~]$ 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=

Last edited by raftingwalk (2020-12-08 21:48:52)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,353

Re: Crash when running steam on fresh install

What about locale -a ?

raftingwalk

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Registered: 2020-11-24

Posts: 5

Re: Crash when running steam on fresh install

What about locale -a ?

[miguel@miguel-pc ~]$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX

gonX

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 112

Re: Crash when running steam on fresh install

I ran into this today, if you type in 'r' into the gdb prompt it should tell you that the crashes occur in the radeonsi_drv.so driver.

If your graphics card is AMD and of the SI or CIK generation, check if both the radeon and amdgpu driver is loaded.
You can check this with:

lsmod | grep -E '(amdgpu|radeon)'

One way to fix this is via this article https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AM … K)_support

Last edited by gonX (2020-12-12 17:11:57)

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dangertech

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Registered: 2020-12-13

Posts: 1

Re: Crash when running steam on fresh install

I have exactly the same issue on arch but also on Manjaro unstable. The version on flatpak works, though, so I use that temporarily.

raftingwalk

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Registered: 2020-11-24

Posts: 5

Re: Crash when running steam on fresh install

I ran into this today, if you type in 'r' into the gdb prompt it should tell you that the crashes occur in the radeonsi_drv.so driver.

If your graphics card is AMD and of the SI or CIK generation, check if both the radeon and amdgpu driver is loaded.
You can check this with:

lsmod | grep -E '(amdgpu|radeon)'

One way to fix this is via this article https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AM … K)_support

I didn't do this before on my previous installation and everything worked just fine, but with the current one it doesn't work. I'm pretty sure I did everything as before.

I'll give a try to your suggestion.