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ejovo13

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Registered: 2023-10-01

Posts: 1

Steam games consistently crashing

Hello,

Over the last month or so, I've been unable to play any steam game for over 4-6 minutes before the X server crashes and I get logged out my session and redirected to gdm. I suspect it might be a gpu issue but to be honest I'm not sure anymore. Inspecting the journal and xorg logs reveals that there's a segfault:

```
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE)
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" for additional info>
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]:  for help.
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]:          at http://wiki.x.org
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE)
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE)
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: Fatal server error:
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE)
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x68
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE)
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 9: /usr/lib/Xorg (_start+0x25) [0x5627deee9465]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 8: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0x8a) [0x7f439b6f1d8a]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 7: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_init_first+0x90) [0x7f439b6f1cd0]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 6: /usr/lib/Xorg (SProcXkbDispatch+0x1c7f) [0x5627deee832c]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 5: /usr/lib/Xorg (ProcessInputEvents+0x1f) [0x5627df01483f]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 4: /usr/lib/Xorg (mieqProcessInputEvents+0xac) [0x5627deef8d3c]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 3: /usr/lib/Xorg (mieqProcessDeviceEvent+0x298) [0x5627deef8a58]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 2: /usr/lib/Xorg (XkbProcessKeyboardEvent+0x367) [0x5627deff08d7]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 1: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__sigaction+0x50) [0x7f439b708710]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) 0: /usr/lib/Xorg (dri3_send_open_reply+0xdd) [0x5627df0054bd]
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE) Backtrace:
Oct 01 18:19:05 archstation /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[31678]: (EE)
```

Of course I've checked the Xorg.1.log file but didn't find anything useful. I will gladly provide it if it would help troubleshooting.

I don't even know where to go to report this/start working on a fix. I'd really like to play csgo2 and some darksouls, its sooo tantalizing only being able to play a few minutes - hoping that this time it'll last - and then abruptly hearing your speakers disconnect and the screen cuts to black..

Relevant info
wm: i3
kernel 6.5.5-arch1-1
nvidia package version: 535.113.01-2

My system is completely up to date.

Grateful if anyone has any ideas!