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Kisho Nov 8, 2020 @ 5:53pm
Steam crashes on startup on Linux
terminal output:
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[2020-11-08 17:50:16] Startup - updater built Feb 11 2020 19:26:28
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
/usr/games/steam: line 98: 91990 Segmentation fault "$steam"
cat: '/home/kisho/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime.tar.xz.part*': No such file or directory
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
find: ‘/home/kisho/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’: No such file or directory

dmesg output:
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[ 1854.991976] steam[91990]: segfault at f7efa539 ip 00000000f7b79e29 sp 00000000ff8cd890 error 7 in libpthread-2.31.so[f7b6f000+11000]
[ 1854.991981] Code: 02 74 1e 8b 44 24 2c 65 2b 05 14 00 00 00 0f 85 c7 00 00 00 83 c4 3c 31 c0 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 8d 76 00 8b 97 2c 22 00 00 83 ca 01 <f0> 0f b1 13 75 cc 39 c2 75 45 a8 01 74 41 89 e8 b9 80 00 00 00 65
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Heatblizzard Nov 8, 2020 @ 7:11pm 
Same here! What's going on and I'm on Windows 10.
Heatblizzard Nov 8, 2020 @ 7:15pm 
Had to do a hard shut down of Steam *I almost did a hard shut down of the computer* as the Steam update wasn't going thru it would just spin forever until forced close and now it seems to work again.
hapijuic Nov 16, 2020 @ 11:21am 
Same. Ubuntu 20.04

```
[ 2227.967341] steam[399905]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000f79c2065 sp 00000000ff95f39c error 4 in libc-2.31.so[f793a000+15b000]
[ 2227.967344] Code: 40 38 ca 0f 84 4d 01 00 00 80 f9 00 0f 84 71 01 00 00 40 4f 75 14 8a 08 38 ca 0f 84 36 01 00 00 80 f9 00 0f 84 5a 01 00 00 40 <8b> 08 bd ff fe fe fe bf ff fe fe fe 01 cd 31 cd 01 cf 8d 40 04 0f
```
Last edited by hapijuic; Nov 16, 2020 @ 11:21am
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Date Posted: Nov 8, 2020 @ 5:53pm
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