Steam gives me segmentation fault

Ignatius881

Hello.

I've installed Steam following every step from the Gentoo Wiki. The first time I've run Steam, it worked, but after that, no more. Here is my prompt, it shows me a segmentation fault on the line 756:

audiodef · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 8:48 pm Post subject:

I get a slightly different error, but it also crashes for me after following the wiki guide. The only thing that has worked has been Steam updating itself - then it crashes. So I'd also like to know how to get it working.
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Juippisi · Developer Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 724 Location: /home

I'm having similar problems. I found this,
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam#Segfault_when_remember_my_password_is_selected

havent been able to test it yet, but I will later tonight. Im hoping it fixes since this is annoying.

Romanujan · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Poland

Anyone knows the solution of this famous (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4537) crash on Gentoo? For example downgrade some package? I think I have tried out every solution found on the net, I have even wiped out ~/.local/share/Steam and ~/.steam to force the client reinstallation (I use steam-launcher from steam-overlay) - but nothing helps...

Chewi · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:48 pm Post subject:

I have always run it with the steamruntime USE flag disabled and haven't had any issues like this. However, I did briefly try enabling it while testing my esteam script recently and it did fail to start with probably the same issue. I seem to recall deleting libstdc++.so.6 from the Ubuntu runtime fixed it but it may have been a different library. I recommend disabling steamruntime though as esteam makes it much more reliable now!

Romanujan · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Poland

OK, disabled the flag, reemerged steam-launcher. Unfortunately, now the client installation gets stuck - I have 'Update Steam...' window with 'Downloading update' stuck at 0... System restart does not help.

Chewi · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:13 pm Post subject:

Hmm. Not seen that before but maybe clearing ~/.local/share/Steam one more time will help.

Romanujan · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Poland

This had to be a temporary server issue - it downloads the updates now. Unfortunately, I now have another crash - this time line 713

Chewi · Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 3:55 pm Post subject:

Given that it seems quite upset about font stuff, I'm guessing the key message here is:

Romanujan · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Poland

I actually don't have en_GB.utf8, but en_US.utf8 did the job. Seems to work now - thank you!

Althorion · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 26

I have a very similar problem:

Chewi · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:49 am Post subject:

Althorion · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 26

Same thing, unfortunatelly:

Chewi · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:58 am Post subject:

Althorion · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 26

mrbassie · l33t Joined: 31 May 2013 Posts: 772 Location: over here

Try building dev-libs/nettle with 32bit support and rebuilding mesa.

Althorion · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 26

Done that already, no dice.

azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden

I have the same issue as the latest poster. I've tried removing Steam completely to do a full re-install, but after that's done, it crashes in the exact same way again. The "Verifying Install" dialog comes up, and it crashes almost immediately.

Chewi · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 12:06 pm Post subject:

The Main Man · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2016 11:44 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem, there was some problem in mesa with openssl, after I emerged mesa with

Chewi · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 7:59 am Post subject:

azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden