Bus error when trying to start games after about 40 days of uptime

[nleo]

My uptime now is 40 days, there are was dozens of cycles start steam, start dota, close dota, close steam cycles

After reboot I'm sure all be fine. But I want reboot.

Any suggestens?

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/800970/212546776-c09e0c17-0066-4e3e-89b8-75802ae5a8b9.mp4

LinuxMint 19.3

[kisak-valve]

Hello @nleo, if you completely close Steam, then run steam from a terminal, are there any hints in the terminal spew when you tell Steam to start the game? Also, please copy your system information from Steam (Steam -> Help -> System Information) and put it in a gist, then include a link to the gist in this issue report.

[nleo]

Interface become more laggy and after several restarts it's stop loadin at all

See till the end I try factorio too:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/800970/212548168-9c9581a6-2a76-44b7-ad5d-e89a6a4fdb69.mp4

Here steam stops loading at all:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/800970/212548203-7804a68a-0106-4c3c-90ab-442c67f6cf63.mp4

$ steam
[2023-01-15 17:49:05] Startup - updater built Dec 15 2022 21:26:49
[2023-01-15 17:49:05] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/user/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2023-01-15 17:49:05] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/user/.steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-01-15 17:49:05] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-01-15 17:49:05] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2023-01-15 17:49:05] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2023-01-15 17:49:05] 3. http://media.steampowered.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-01-15 17:49:05] Checking for update on startup
[2023-01-15 17:49:06] Проверка на наличие обновлений...
[2023-01-15 17:49:06] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2023-01-15 17:49:06] Manifest download: send request
[2023-01-15 17:49:06] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2023-01-15 17:49:06] Manifest download: finished
[2023-01-15 17:49:06] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1671236931, installed version 1671236931, existing pending version 0
[2023-01-15 17:49:06] Nothing to do
[2023-01-15 17:49:06] Проверка установки...
[2023-01-15 17:49:06] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2023-01-15 17:49:07] Verification complete
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf3e13370
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf3e11cc0
$ 

[kisak-valve]

This folder path tells us that you're using a distro-modified Steam package /home/user/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam. That same Steam package could be redirecting some of the terminal spew to ~/.steam/error.log and could contain hints. Can you check if that file exists and share its contents if it does.

[nleo]

rm: cannot remove '/home/user/.steam/steam': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove '/home/user/.steam/bin': Is a directory
steam.sh[6484]: Running Steam on linuxmint 19.3 64-bit
steam.sh[6484]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[6552]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[6484]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1671236931)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1671236931)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1671236931)
Loaded SDL version 2.27.0-p7692409
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"

(steam:6634): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Mint-Y/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1085: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'
ComputeStartupMode: found registry default startup mode: 0steamwebhelper.sh[6651]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/user/.steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[6651]: Using CEF sandbox (try with -no-cef-sandbox if this fails)
crash_20230115175349_4.dmp[6676]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20230115175349_4.dmp
/home/user/.steam/steam.sh: line 798:  6634 Bus error               (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
crash_20230115175349_4.dmp[6676]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20230115175349_4.dmp[6676]: response: CrashID=bp-5087b74b-b25c-42cc-a2e5-af6152230115
crash_20230115175349_4.dmp[6676]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20230115175349_4.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-5087b74b-b25c-42cc-a2e5-af6152230115''
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

[kisak-valve]

From https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9080#issuecomment-1374886517, can you check if opting into the Steam client beta has an effect on the issue?

[nleo]

Maybe next time. Now I rebooted PC and steam works fine. For next 40 days I think) Couse I already had this issue in past

[jamieguinan]

A year later, but I just had a similar problem with steam.sh segfaulting after a long uptime, and I found that Steam had completely filled up /dev/shm with files named "u1000-Shm_XXXXXXX".

$ uptime
 19:08:43 up 59 days,  8:55,  7 users,  load average: 0.44, 0.48, 0.56

$ df -h /tmp /dev/shm/
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       184G  125G   50G  72% /
tmpfs           3.9G  3.9G     0 100% /dev/shm

$ ls -ltr /dev/shm
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Nov  9 14:19 u1000-Shm_5116acf1
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan     1040 Nov  9 14:19 u1000-Shm_125376fc
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Nov  9 14:28 u1000-Shm_487b350f
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Nov  9 14:28 u1000-Shm_1723e81b
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Nov  9 14:28 u1000-Shm_e4e71e5
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Nov 10 12:27 u1000-Shm_95f05d73
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Nov 10 12:28 u1000-Shm_7c96a1ca
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Nov 10 12:28 u1000-Shm_65fb3834
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Nov 10 12:39 u1000-Shm_8c9dc48d
...
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Jan  2 09:09 u1000-Shm_78516157
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Jan  2 09:21 u1000-Shm_f5a4a688
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Jan  2 09:23 u1000-Shm_7e6d9e31
-rwxrwxr-x 1 guinan guinan 26214416 Jan  2 09:23 u1000-Shm_36f98b19

I cleared them out and steam started working again,

$ rm -v /dev/shm/u1000-*

Might be worth noting that I completely exit steam when I'm not using it, to prevent steam-web-helper from gobbling up all my ram and swap overnight.

[robobenklein]

I have a 64GB /dev/shm so it hasn't stopped me yet (128G system memory), but I can also confirm restarting steam multiple times continues to leave extra files behind that seem to be up to ~26MB each. (/dev/shm total usage already past 4GB)

Steam Version: 1702079146