Steam Crashing on launch

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Trying to launch the steam client, and it immediately crashes with no error messages from the UI.

When I launch it from the the terminal, I get:

❯ steam
steam.sh[8430]: Running Steam on endeavouros rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[8430]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[8502]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[8430]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
[2022-12-24 20:47:26] Startup - updater built Jun  7 2022 03:18:19
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
crash_20221224204726_2.dmp[8546]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20221224204726_2.dmp
crash_20221224204726_2.dmp[8546]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20221224204726_2.dmp[8546]: response: CrashID=bp-71bced23-6f5b-40e4-a0af-709192221224
crash_20221224204726_2.dmp[8546]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20221224204726_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-71bced23-6f5b-40e4-a0af-709192221224''
/home/ptrsdwski/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 794:  8543 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

When I run it using gdb, I get something a bit more helpful, which is

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xee01e051 in llvm::orc::ELFNixPlatform::notifyRemoving(llvm::orc::ResourceTracker&) () from /usr/lib32/libLLVM-14.so

I’ve tried reinstalling steam, I tried updating my locale from the arch wiki for steam troubleshooting, I’ve seen a few things about nvidia drivers causing issues, however I’m on a thinkpad t480, which uses an integrated Intel GPU, so I don’t think that applies.

Thanks in advance!

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Maybe this will help.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Troubleshooting#Steam:_An_X_Error_occurred

And also this.

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Thanks for taking a glance, but these are mentioning the nvidia drivers as the main issue. If I’m using an integrated Intel GPU, that wouldn’t be relevant, right?

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Check the coredumps to see if they yield any clues.

$ coredumpctl gdb steam

Edit: Install gdb first if you don’t have it installed.

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Looks like I’m getting this from that. Looks like I mistyped the command that I used in the last part of the initial post.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xee01e051 in llvm::orc::ELFNixPlatform::notifyRemoving(llvm::orc::ResourceTracker&) () from /usr/lib32/libLLVM-14.so
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Can you check which package owns this file?

$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib32/libLLVM-14.so

By the way, please reply to my comment so that I’ll get notified when you reply.

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❯ pacman -Qo /usr/lib32/libLLVM-14.so
/usr/lib32/libLLVM-14.so is owned by lib32-llvm-libs 14.0.6-3
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So now we have pinpointed which package is causing the error. I guess the next step would be to check steam’s dependencies and see if the version of that package currently installed on your system matches the version required by steam?

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Hmmmm… As far as I can tell, that package isn’t a dependency for Steam?

❯ sudo pacman -Si steam
[sudo] password for ptrsdwski: 
Repository      : multilib
Name            : steam
Version         : 1.0.0.75-1
Description     : Valve's digital software delivery system
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://steampowered.com/
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : bash  desktop-file-utils  diffutils  hicolor-icon-theme  curl  dbus  freetype2  gdk-pixbuf2  ttf-font  zenity
                lsb-release  nss  usbutils  xorg-xrandr  vulkan-driver  vulkan-icd-loader  lsof  python  lib32-libgl
                lib32-gcc-libs  lib32-libx11  lib32-libxss  lib32-alsa-plugins  lib32-libgpg-error  lib32-nss
                lib32-vulkan-driver  lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
Optional Deps   : steam-native-runtime: steam native runtime support
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A dependency for steam might depend on that package.

Try re-installing the problematic package and see if it helps.

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Hey! That got it! Thanks so much!

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So steam works again?

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It does! Launches just fine! Can’t believe it was that easy of a fix. lol

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That’s great to hear. Happy holidays. And happy gaming.

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