Steam crash log file location?

[trip.bull.kill.]

I am very sorry if this has been asked before...
Where may I find a log file for steam (if one exists)? Like a crash log or something. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 32bit

[Howlin' Mad Murphy]

/tmp/dumps

[trip.bull.kill.]

thanks a bunch man.

[e633]

Gone there after a TF2 segfault: found nothing.

[Zetta]

Is there no log file?

[instabilis]

Originally posted by Niwakaame:

Is there no log file?

Try looking in ~/.local/share/Steam/ and ~/.steam/

[Zetta]

There's a log directory, but there's no file with the terminal output. Anyway I found a workaround by starting Steam like "steam > /var/log/steam 2>&1" and chmod /var/log/steam to 666.

[jokab]

for me it was /home/<user>/.steam/error.log

its where i found out why my games weren't loading. in my case my permissions were changed in certain files so I just re-configured them and voila!

hope this helps someone else

im running Debian 8 "Jessie"

[Long Ago [Linux]]

If you have trouble with Source games, use -condebug launch option for the game.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1040-JWMT-2947

For TF2 the log is with game files under common/Team Fortress 2/tf/console.log. As long as -condebug is active it will keep appending to that console.log file. If you rename that file a new console.log would be started.

[alohl669]

In the end I use an alias, I suppose it will be possible to create a *.desktop file...
alias steamr='script -c steam /tmp/steam.log'