Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load
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.
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$ /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''
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