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Steam Crash (might be related to working with unstable Wifi #6487

Open alpha0mega96 opened 5 years ago

alpha0mega96 commented 5 years ago

Your system information

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Steam crashed.

I captured some console logs because my launcher now always shows the terminal (I tweaked it to be so).

Log: steam_crash.log

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Launch steam and try to navigate to Community page (you have been offline recently without steam being closed, now you are online).

ghost commented 5 years ago

Well, you exited "Exiting app 238960" Path of Exile just fine then it checked for Steam client updates and ended with "Nothing to do" then you get a whopper:

***** OUT OF MEMORY! attempted allocation size: 565246780 ****
memstd.cpp (2383) : Fatal Assertion Failed: OUT OF MEMORY
memstd.cpp (2383) : Fatal Assertion Failed: OUT OF MEMORY
memstd.cpp (2383) : Fatal assert failed: memstd.cpp, line 2383.  Application exiting.

It looks like Steam has been dealing with this kind of problem for possibly forever eg https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/813

It would be interesting if there's something new there I suppose.

alpha0mega96 commented 5 years ago

Found another crash... 2nd time this week

check steam_crash2.log

kisak-valve commented 2 years ago

Hello @alpha0mega96, are you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?

alpha0mega96 commented 2 years ago

Yes. In my observations: this usually happens when the game being run floods through into swap space (RAM is not enough but processes can run using the ample swap space).

This causes the steam client to crash in the background. If any game is dependent on steam login details or the steam client being running, that game will crash along with the steam client; if not, it'll hang or generate innocent bugs (not the game's fault).