Update: Steam runs successfully on Debian Trixie and on Arch Linux. Still failing on Debian Bookworm.
On Tuesday, 11-03-2025 at 21:44 George at Clug wrote: > Hi, > > > Any use Steam? > > > We do. About an hour ago, I was using steam to play a game and all was > working well. Then a member of the family reported that they were > unable to load Steam. We tested on another (third) computer, and as > Steam started, it checks for updates and then never loaded. > > > I then exited steam on my computer and ran steam again. It started to > load, check and started updates, and then failed to load. > > > When I run Steam from the command line, I get the following messages. > > > I am posting this hoping it may help others. > > > And hoping if anyone else has issues that you let me know. > > My hope is that this is a bug for a Steam managed update, and they > will soon fix the issue so starting test once more will run an update > and fix the issue. I hope to check steam forums soon. > > > > We run Debian Bookworm on AMD graphics cards, in XFCE and in KDE > (tried both Wayland and X11). All computers have latest Debian > updates installed. > > > > I noticed in the below messages "/ubuntu12_32", which has me a bit > concerned, I do not like seeing "ubuntu" when using Debian. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > $ /usr/games/steam %U > steam.sh[2340]: Running Steam on debian 12 64-bit > steam.sh[2340]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically > setup.sh[2381]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! > steam.sh[2340]: Using supervisor > /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor > steam.sh[2340]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied > CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment > variables. > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Startup - updater built Mar 9 2025 21:56:57 > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Startup - Steam Client launched with: > '/home/username/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam' > '-srt-logger-opened' '-nominidumps' '-nobreakpad' '%U' > 03/11 21:36:50 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps > 03/11 21:36:50 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for > appid(steam)/version(1741636428)/tid(2465) > Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update > check > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Loading cached metrics from disk > (/home/username/.steam/debian-installation/package/steam_client_metrics.bin) > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Using the following download hosts for Public, > Realm steamglobal > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, > /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = > 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, > /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = > 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, > Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in' > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Checking for update on startup > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Checking for available updates... > [ 0%] Checking for available updates... > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Downloading manifest: > https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12 > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Manifest download: send request > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Manifest download: waiting for download to > finish > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Manifest download: finished > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version > 1741636428, installed version 1741636428, existing pending version 0 > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Nothing to do > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Verifying installation... > [----] Verifying installation... > [2025-03-11 21:36:50] Verifying all executable checksums > [2025-03-11 21:36:51] Verification complete > UpdateUI: skip show logo > > Steam logging initialized: directory: > /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/logs > > XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: > 0xf756d780 > XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: > 0xf756c050 > double free or corruption (out) > crash_20250311213652_5.dmp[2483]: Uploading dump (out-of-process) > /tmp/dumps/crash_20250311213652_5.dmp > /home/username/.steam/debian-installation/steam.sh: line 946: 2465 > Aborted (core dumped) > "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@" > $ crash_20250311213652_5.dmp[2483]: Finished uploading minidump > (out-of-process): success = yes > crash_20250311213652_5.dmp[2483]: response: > CrashID=bp-a7a63d06-4c7e-4357-86f6-6d97f2250311 > crash_20250311213652_5.dmp[2483]: file > ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20250311213652_5.dmp'', upload yes: > ''CrashID=bp-a7a63d06-4c7e-4357-86f6-6d97f2250311'' > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
