steamwebhelper crashing on NVIDIA with GPU-accelerated web rendering (workaround in beta)

onegentig commented 1 year ago

Since yesterday (1. July 2023), Steam hangs on start, unable to create a window for itself (new GUI problem?). It appears that start.sh is repeatedly trying to create a steamwebhelper that just crashes soon after spawning.

Update: Identified as a CEF (libcef.so) issue, it’s currently tracked by NVIDIA and looks like a workaround is out in Steam Beta (see changelog). Should be fixed by disabling "GPU-accelerated web rendering" and wiping GLCache, see #9780 (comment).

System Information

Steam client version: 1.0.0.78 (1687386907)
Distribution: Fedora 38 (Workstation)
Opted into Steam client beta?: No
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
Steam Logs: steam-logs.tar.gz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (RPMFusion driver v535.54.03)
DE: GNOME 44, X.Org 1.20.14 (no wayland)

$ dnf list installed "*steam*"

``` Installed Packages steam.i686 1.0.0.78-1.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates steam-devices.i686 1.0.0.78-1.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-steam ```

$ dnf list installed "*nvidia*"

``` Installed Packages akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:535.54.03-1.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver kmod-nvidia-6.3.8-200.fc38.x86_64.x86_64 3:535.54.03-1.fc38 @@commandline nvidia-persistenced.x86_64 3:535.54.03-1.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:535.54.03-1.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver nvidia-vaapi-driver.x86_64 0.0.10-1.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:535.54.03-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda.x86_64 3:535.54.03-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:535.54.03-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.i686 3:535.54.03-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:535.54.03-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 3:535.54.03-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:535.54.03-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64 3:535.54.03-2.fc38 @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver ```

$ inxi -F

``` System: Host: ongn-zetaxi270 Kernel: 6.3.8-200.fc38.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME v: 44.2 Distro: Fedora release 38 (Thirty Eight) Machine: Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z270X-Ultra Gaming v: N/A serial: Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z270X-Ultra Gaming-CF v: x.x serial: UEFI: American Megatrends v: F8 date: 10/27/2017 CPU: Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-6700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 1024 KiB Speed (MHz): avg: 3724 min/max: 800/4000 cores: 1: 3870 2: 3400 3: 3400 4: 3885 5: 3820 6: 3801 7: 3737 8: 3884 Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050] driver: nvidia v: 535.54.03 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1920x1080 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.54.03 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2 Audio: Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Device-3: Trust GXT 258 Microphone driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB API: ALSA v: k6.3.8-200.fc38.x86_64 status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.72 status: active Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V driver: e1000e IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 1c:1b:0d:97:f8:f7 Bluetooth: Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb type: USB Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.69 TiB used: 1.61 TiB (59.8%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 QVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0 size: 931.51 GiB ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: SanDisk model: EMTEC X150 960GB size: 894.25 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 145.01 GiB used: 72.64 GiB (50.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 46.6 MiB (48.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2 ID-3: /home size: 191.45 GiB used: 122.63 GiB (64.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8 Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0 ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 4.66 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda7 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 36 C Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 35% Info: Processes: 367 Uptime: 13m Memory: available: 15.56 GiB used: 4.28 GiB (27.5%) Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.27 ```

Description

When I try to start Steam either from the terminal or from the application launcher, the process just hangs and doesn't open the Steam client (has to be killed using kill or just killall steam).

The issue started appeared one day ago–Steam was working perfectly fine before that. I made no changes to the system, settings or anything in that time (auto-update might have happened though).

Executing steam in the terminal didn't print any errors or any lines that would differ from a successful launch. After "RegisterForAppOverview", it appears that steamwebhelper was repeatedly executed:

steamwebhelper.sh[330664]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/onegen/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[330664]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()

The longer I let it run, the more steamwebhelpers were spawned (seen in htop and ps aux | grep 'steam', no window ever appeared. At this point, the program didn't respond to even SIGINTs and had to be forcibly killed.

\ By some miracle, I was able to start Steam in offline mode (steam -offline) once after running steam --reset. Games, incl. online ones, ran as expected. But sadly, after I restarted the computer again, not even the offline option helped (I tried resetting again, no change).

Addendum: Running steam -bigpicture fails in a…peculiar way (video)

[Screencast from 2023-07-03 00-08-47.webm](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/assets/84882649/84987064-f1ae-499d-8bd2-37af1d181f91)

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Run Steam

What I tried so far:

steam -offline
steam --reset
steam --flushconfig
steam -cef-disable-gpu
steam -bigpicture
DRI_PRIME=0 steam
Resetting the network & wiping the DNS cache
Reinstalling CUDA
Reinstalling VDPAU/VAAPI
dnf downgrade steam
dnf reinstall steam
dnf remove steam && dnf install steam
rm -rf ~/.cache/nvidia/GLCache
rm -rf ~/.steam/ ~/.steampath ~/.steampid
rm -rf ~/.local/share/Steam/ (worked for a time, see #9780 (comment))
steam -vgui (works to a limited extent, see #9780 (comment))

iddm commented 1 year ago

Replying to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9780#issuecomment-1638508672

Other cards have other issues. NVIDIA had the most stable drivers within the past 20 years. Anyway, this isn't a thread to discuss GPUs, please let's stay on-topic.

Hains commented 1 year ago

Fix for Ubuntu 23.04(wayland) which works for me.

-Remove 525 drivers with:

sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'

Install 535.54.03 drivers.

DONT run 'apt autoremove' after 'apt ugrade'.

Calculating upgrade... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libnvidia-egl-wayland1 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.

Otherwise steam wont launch again.

kisak-valve commented 1 year ago

When it comes available via your distro's normal update process, please retest with the NVIDIA 535.86.05 release.

PedroMerinoDev commented 1 year ago

Disabling Secure Boot worked for me.

In my case, the NVIDIA driver version 535 was not being loaded correctly.

bahman5679 commented 1 year ago

Steam for me crashes and reopens repetitively when I lunch it from the desktop but works perfectly when I run it from the terminal. I tried all solutions in here but I didn't have any luck. My OS is Garuda Dr460nized gaming edition and my GPU is NVIDIA GeForce MX330. By the way, I didn't install the Nvidia driver.

kisak-valve commented 1 year ago

Hello @bahman5679, you've described the issue being tracked being tracked at #9383.

bahman5679 commented 1 year ago

Thank you very much @kisak-valve. That resolved a part of my problem.

major0 commented 1 year ago

1. Launched `steam -vgui` via terminal
2. Opted into Steam Beta Update(not sure if necessary?)
3. Disabled GPU-accelerated web rendering
4. Closed Steam, wait until the Steam process fully exits
5. `rm -r ~/.nv/GLCache`
6. Steam worked properly now!

This solution was almost 100% spot on for me, though I did find that my GLCache was in ~/.AMD/GLCache.

I ended up needing to do find ~/.[a-zA-Z]* -name GLCache to locate it.

benuski commented 1 year ago

libnvidia-egl-wayland1

Reinstalling this package on Pop_OS 22.04 resolved the problem for me more than all of the other steps.

MatteoGioia commented 1 year ago

Removing GLCache files inside home/your_username/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.cache/nvidia/GLCache worked for me on Fedora 37 with nvidia driver 535.54.03.

JumperLuko commented 1 year ago

Not working with vnc servers like thinlinc

Hains commented 1 year ago

When it comes available via your distro's normal update process, please retest with the NVIDIA 535.86.05 release.

Ubuntu 23.04 Updating driver to 535.86.05 libnvidia-egl-wayland1 still incorrectly marked as 'not required'. After re-installing of libnvidia-egl-wayland1 notification gone. Steam working.

anansivanir commented 1 year ago

Still not able to start with freshly installed Fedora38. Webhelper crashes and steam windows either don't open or open only as "reservations" showing sometimes a rectangle with garbled contents or a white bacground. Tested with XFCE and Gnome and behaviour is pretty much the same. Cleaning up nvidia cache did nothing and it didn't get recreated afterwards. Different command line options do not seem to have any effect to behaviour.

Kernel:

Linux 6.4.9-200.fc38.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Aug  8 21:21:11 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lspci:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 [GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER] (rev a1)
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

Installed packages for NVidia

xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-535.86.05-1.fc38.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
akmod-nvidia-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
nvidia-settings-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.4.7-200.fc38.x86_64-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.4.8-200.fc38.x86_64-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
nvidia-persistenced-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs-535.86.05-1.fc38.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.10-1.fc38.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.4.9-200.fc38.x86_64-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64
nvidia-gpu-firmware-20230804-153.fc38.noarch

Installed packages for Steam

purple-libsteam-1.7.1-4.fc38.x86_64
pidgin-libsteam-1.7.1-4.fc38.noarch
python3-steam-1.4.4-1.fc38.noarch
steam-devices-1.0.0.78-1.fc38.i686
steam-1.0.0.78-1.fc38.i686

Ps: At the same time Steam works properly on my laptop with Fedora 38 and AMD Ryzen5 and Radeon graphics card.

Update: Just in case I completely cleared everything steam related from under my homedirectory, relogged and started steam from fresh and managed to get login window and the "loading user data..."-banner, which once again froze without starting the application completely.

.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt logfile has some lines, but nothing shouting an error or crash

[0812/131446.659172:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(248)] Crash reporting enabled for process: browser
[0812/131446.694112:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(271)] Crash reporting enabled for process: gpu-process
[0812/131446.744771:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(248)] Crash reporting enabled for process: utility
[0812/131447.000707:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(271)] Crash reporting enabled for process: renderer
[0812/131447.598298:INFO:CONSOLE(1)] "Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: e.rgApps is not iterable", source: https://steamloopback.host/chunk~2dcc5aaf7.js?contenthash=2aad45a83c6aa1456d4d (1)

.local/share/Steam/logs/steamwebhelper.log contains also only INFO/WARNING messages

libEGL warning: DRI3: Screen seems not DRI3 capable
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
[0812/131446.659172:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(248)] Crash reporting enabled for process: browser
[0812/131446.682162:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: UserID with value: 0
[0812/131446.682162:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: UserID with value: 0
[0812/131446.682222:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: BuildID with value: 1690583737
[0812/131446.682226:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: BuildID with value: 1690583737
[0812/131446.682226:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: SteamUniverse with value: Public
[0812/131446.682230:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: SteamUniverse with value: Public
[0812/131446.682231:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: Vendor with value: Valve
[0812/131446.682233:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: Vendor with value: Valve
[0812/131446.694112:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(271)] Crash reporting enabled for process: gpu-process
[0812/131446.744187:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: UserID with value: 0
[0812/131446.744276:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: BuildID with value: 1690583737
[0812/131446.744280:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: SteamUniverse with value: Public
[0812/131446.744283:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(287)] Failed to set crash key: Vendor with value: Valve
[0812/131446.744771:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(248)] Crash reporting enabled for process: utility
[0812/131447.000707:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(271)] Crash reporting enabled for process: renderer
[0812/131447.598298:INFO:CONSOLE(1)] "Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: e.rgApps is not iterable", source: https://steamloopback.host/chunk~2dcc5aaf7.js?contenthash=2aad45a83c6aa1456d4d (1)
Invalid browser dimensions: 0 x 0
src/webhelper/html_chrome.cpp (3404) : CefCurrentlyOn( TID_UI )

SamVanheer commented 1 year ago

I'm encountering this issue in a VirtualBox 7.0.10 VM using Ubuntu 22.04, freshly installed. Guest Additions are installed.

The main window doesn't show, but i can open Friends and Settings and the update news window also shows up. The main window exists but it's completely invisible.

Interface settings:

I disabled "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views" but this didn't change things.

It takes a couple minutes for these other windows to show up.

Complete command line output:

solokiller@solokiller-VirtualBox:~$ steam --beta steam.sh[5459]: Running Steam on ubuntu 22.04 64-bit steam.sh[5459]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[5576]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! steam.sh[5459]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied [2023-08-12 23:28:00] Startup - updater built Jul 28 2023 18:44:09 [2023-08-12 23:28:00] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/solokiller/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '--beta' 08/12 23:28:00 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(5652) Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check [2023-08-12 23:28:00] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/solokiller/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin) [2023-08-12 23:28:00] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal [2023-08-12 23:28:00] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' [2023-08-12 23:28:00] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' [2023-08-12 23:28:00] 3. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in' [2023-08-12 23:28:00] Checking for update on startup [2023-08-12 23:28:00] Checking for available updates... [2023-08-12 23:28:00] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12 [2023-08-12 23:28:00] Manifest download: send request [2023-08-12 23:28:00] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish [2023-08-12 23:28:01] Manifest download: finished [2023-08-12 23:28:01] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1690583737, installed version 1690583737, existing pending version 0 [2023-08-12 23:28:01] Nothing to do [2023-08-12 23:28:01] Verifying installation... [2023-08-12 23:28:01] Performing checksum verification of executable files [2023-08-12 23:28:02] Verification complete XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf63be9c0 XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf63bd1f0 /usr/share/themes/Yaru/gtk-2.0/main.rc:775: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}' /usr/share/themes/Yaru/gtk-2.0/hacks.rc:28: error: invalid string constant "normal_entry", expected valid string constant GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good steamwebhelper.sh[5690]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/solokiller/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy steamwebhelper.sh[5690]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3() CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 101 milliseconds to initialize BRefreshApplicationsInLibrary 1: 1ms BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 378 apps RegisterForAppOverview 1: 32ms RegisterForAppOverview 2: 32ms [2023-08-12 23:30:03] Background update loop checking for update. . . [2023-08-12 23:30:03] Checking for available updates... [2023-08-12 23:30:03] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12?t=660354414 [2023-08-12 23:30:03] Manifest download: send request [2023-08-12 23:30:03] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish [2023-08-12 23:30:04] Manifest download: finished [2023-08-12 23:30:04] Download skipped by HTTP 304 Not Modified [2023-08-12 23:30:04] Nothing to do

I tried to opt into the current beta with --beta but i doubt this option exists.

kisak-valve commented 1 year ago

Hello @SamVanheer, it's likely you're seeing the issue being tracked at #9752.

SamVanheer commented 1 year ago

Looks like it, thanks for the information.

liamwerk7676 commented 1 year ago

i have the same isue however opening steam truh the terminal somtimes makes it work idk how it fixes it

kisak-valve commented 1 year ago

Hello @liamwerk7676, you've symptomatically described #9383.

anansivanir commented 1 year ago

Still not able to start with freshly installed Fedora38. Webhelper crashes and steam windows either don't open or open only as "reservations" showing sometimes a rectangle with garbled contents or a white bacground. Tested with XFCE and Gnome and behaviour is pretty much the same. Cleaning up nvidia cache did nothing and it didn't get recreated afterwards. Different command line options do not seem to have any effect to behaviour.

After today's kernel update (and relinking of NVidia drivers) the friend list and settings window opened, but when I tried to open Library the client froze and I couldn't start it again succesfully. Apparently Webhelper is still getting tangled up with some of it's logic and startup hangs on "Loading user data..."

Kernel & NVidia drivers:

6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Aug 11 12:20:29 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux akmod-nvidia-535.86.05-1.fc38.x86_64

anansivanir commented 1 year ago

Replying to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9780#issuecomment-1677422167

Apparently new kernel and NVidia driver update fixes the issue and now Steam client works with

6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Aug 11 12:20:29 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux kmod-nvidia-6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64-535.98-1.fc38.x86_64

Note that there was a change from akmod to kmod for some reason? I still seem to have the akmod installed as well, but apparently there was some issue with just using the akmod-nvidia-535.98-1.fc38.x86_64?

salmmm22 commented 1 year ago

What worked for me was to type the following to run Steam: ~$ steam -no-cef-sandbox

weirdsmiley commented 1 year ago

I was facing the same issue, and I believe disabling GPU-accelerated web rendering, would solve the issue. To disable it via cmdline, use steam -cef-disable-gpu.

Gist from where I found cmdline options' details.

CaitlinDavitt commented 1 year ago

I am just going to add that I was having what I believe to be this same issue with an Intel igpu and the steam -cef-disable-gpu fix worked

RayOfLight1 commented 1 year ago

Damn, I got a fully AMD system thus this is not exclusive to Nvidia, not even -cef-disable-gpu can make it start, I even downgraded my glibc from 2.38 to 2.37 to no avail.

ragardner commented 1 year ago

I also have a full AMD system and the only way I can launch steam currently is by right clicking on the icon and selecting library

edit: I have also disabled friends and chat from opening on start although I have no idea if that makes any difference

kirk-clawson commented 1 year ago

Fedora 38/ Full AMD user here. Originally used the -cef-disable-gpu flag, and that got me into it, but after some other (seemingly unrelated) Game weirdness I went into my BIOS and realized that even though my Mobo was defaulting to my Radeon, the iGPU was in fact not disabled. After disabling the iGPU, and only running with the discrete Radeon, I was able to turn off the flag and Steam starts up just fine after that. Hopefully this helps someone else out there.

vaparetia commented 1 year ago

I also have a full AMD system and the only way I can launch steam currently is by right clicking on the icon and selecting library

edit: I have also disabled friends and chat from opening on start although I have no idea if that makes any difference

This worked for me as well. If I start steam in the terminal, it works fine. Otherwise I get webrender errors.

kisak-valve commented 1 year ago

Hello @vaparetia, same as https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9780#issuecomment-1676359367, you've described #9383.

thePaulRichard commented 1 year ago

I'm encountering this error when I don't start Steam from the terminal. Starting Steam from the terminal works fine.

Oct 26 22:29:20 fedora systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@5-26866-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Oct 26 22:29:20 fedora audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@5-26866-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Oct 26 22:29:20 fedora systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@5-26866-0.service: Consumed 3.284s CPU time.
Oct 26 22:29:20 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=112 op=UNLOAD
Oct 26 22:29:20 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=111 op=UNLOAD
Oct 26 22:29:20 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=110 op=UNLOAD
Oct 26 22:29:21 fedora abrt-server[26878]: Executable '/home/paulrichard/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper' doesn't belong to any package and ProcessUnpackaged is set to 'no'
Oct 26 22:29:21 fedora abrt-server[26878]: 'post-create' on '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2023-10-26-22:29:20.748093-25814' exited with 1
Oct 26 22:29:21 fedora abrt-server[26878]: Deleting problem directory '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2023-10-26-22:29:20.748093-25814'
Oct 26 22:29:24 fedora steam.desktop[26881]: steamwebhelper.sh[26881]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/paulrichard/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
Oct 26 22:29:24 fedora steam.desktop[26881]: steamwebhelper.sh[26881]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
Oct 26 22:29:26 fedora steam.desktop[22571]: BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 166 apps
Oct 26 22:29:26 fedora steam.desktop[22571]: RegisterForAppOverview 1: 3ms
Oct 26 22:29:26 fedora steam.desktop[22571]: RegisterForAppOverview 2: 3ms
Oct 26 22:29:27 fedora audit[26881]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=26881 comm=436F6D706F73697465205468726561 exe="/home/paulrichard/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper" sig=11 res=1
Oct 26 22:29:27 fedora kernel: Composite Threa[27945]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 sp 00007fc0fd9d46b8 error 14 in steamwebhelper[400000+10000] likely on CPU 15 (core 7, socket 0)
Oct 26 22:29:27 fedora kernel: Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
Oct 26 22:29:27 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=113 op=LOAD
Oct 26 22:29:27 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=114 op=LOAD
Oct 26 22:29:27 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=115 op=LOAD
Oct 26 22:29:27 fedora systemd[1]: Started systemd-coredump@6-28087-0.service - Process Core Dump (PID 28087/UID 0).
Oct 26 22:29:27 fedora audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@6-28087-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Oct 26 22:29:28 fedora systemd-coredump[28088]: [🡕] Process 26881 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 dumped core.

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                                                Stack trace of thread 27945:
                                                #0  0x0000000000000000 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
                                                ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Oct 26 22:29:28 fedora systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@6-28087-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Oct 26 22:29:29 fedora audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@6-28087-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Oct 26 22:29:29 fedora systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@6-28087-0.service: Consumed 1.091s CPU time.
Oct 26 22:29:29 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=115 op=UNLOAD
Oct 26 22:29:29 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=114 op=UNLOAD
Oct 26 22:29:29 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=113 op=UNLOAD
Oct 26 22:29:29 fedora abrt-server[28098]: Executable '/home/paulrichard/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper' doesn't belong to any package and ProcessUnpackaged is set to 'no'
Oct 26 22:29:29 fedora abrt-server[28098]: 'post-create' on '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2023-10-26-22:29:29.247991-26881' exited with 1
Oct 26 22:29:29 fedora abrt-server[28098]: Deleting problem directory '/var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2023-10-26-22:29:29.247991-26881'
Oct 26 22:29:34 fedora steam.desktop[28105]: steamwebhelper.sh[28105]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/paulrichard/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
Oct 26 22:29:34 fedora steam.desktop[28105]: steamwebhelper.sh[28105]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
Oct 26 22:29:36 fedora steam.desktop[22571]: BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 166 apps
Oct 26 22:29:36 fedora steam.desktop[22571]: RegisterForAppOverview 1: 3ms
Oct 26 22:29:36 fedora steam.desktop[22571]: RegisterForAppOverview 2: 3ms
Oct 26 22:29:36 fedora systemd[1647]: Started app-gnome-gnome\x2dsystem\x2dmonitor-29397.scope - Application launched by gsd-media-keys.
Oct 26 22:29:37 fedora audit[28105]: ANOM_ABEND auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=28105 comm=436F6D706F73697465205468726561 exe="/home/paulrichard/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper" sig=11 res=1
Oct 26 22:29:37 fedora kernel: Composite Threa[29324]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000000000 sp 00007fe24f1576b8 error 14 in steamwebhelper[400000+10000] likely on CPU 1 (core 0, socket 0)
Oct 26 22:29:37 fedora kernel: Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
Oct 26 22:29:37 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=116 op=LOAD
Oct 26 22:29:37 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=117 op=LOAD
Oct 26 22:29:37 fedora audit: BPF prog-id=118 op=LOAD
Oct 26 22:29:37 fedora systemd[1]: Started systemd-coredump@7-29500-0.service - Process Core Dump (PID 29500/UID 0).
Oct 26 22:29:37 fedora audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@7-29500-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Oct 26 22:29:40 fedora systemd-coredump[29501]: [🡕] Process 28105 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 dumped core.

Data-007 commented 11 months ago

29/11/2023 I have the issue that steam either from the desktop or via a terminal crashes and burns offering(terminal) to upload crash dumps. Iam on Arch fully updated system. not sure how to progress. Have tried various things.

Onm plasma latest under wayland steam works perfectly( unfortunately my system is not stable under wayland) Fully amd system, any help gratefully received.

Seyloria commented 11 months ago

Issue still exists for me.

My System: AMD GPU / Fedora 39 / GNOME / Wayland

Steam starts from Desktop and closes right after beeing fully startet (can shortly see the client). It spawns alot of "steamwebhelper" (more than usual). Starting from Terminal does fine without anything done. Fix for me so far is disabling the "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views" option under Interface.

loqster commented 11 months ago

Same issue here.

Fedora 38 AMD GPU

Opting into beta did not fix.

what did work was disabling the "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views" option under Interface

florisdipt commented 11 months ago

With an RTX 3080, this was what I had to do to get steam working properly
1. Open terminal and `steam -vgui`

2. Steam > Settings > Interface, then disable hardware accelerated web views
Edit: On x11 with 535 drivers

This did the trick for me.

system info:

hicder commented 10 months ago

I think disabling hardware accelerated web views works.

Another alternative (which still keeps hardware accelerated web view) is:

Go to $HOME/.local/share/applications
Edit steam.desktop, comment out these 2 lines (by putting the hashtag in front)
```
# PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
# X-KDE-RunOnDiscreteGpu=true
```

This fixes for me. I'm on KDE, with AMD RX 6800 if that matters.

maxchop commented 10 months ago

Fedora 38/ Full AMD user here. Originally used the -cef-disable-gpu flag, and that got me into it, but after some other (seemingly unrelated) Game weirdness I went into my BIOS and realized that even though my Mobo was defaulting to my Radeon, the iGPU was in fact not disabled. After disabling the iGPU, and only running with the discrete Radeon, I was able to turn off the flag and Steam starts up just fine after that. Hopefully this helps someone else out there.

This was my issue. Some further detail for anyone who comes across this as no other solutions helped since I'm fully AMD.

Lately i'd been working on setting up a GPU passthrough for Windows 10 and had the discrete GPU disabled in /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf and using the iGPU natively on Arch. After re-enabling the discrete GPU (removing the vfio.conf file and running mkinitcpio) and plugging in my monitors back to its ports, I forgot to isolate and disable the iGPU I was previously using. Going back and repeating the process to the iGPU fixed this issue after a reboot.

I had not tried running steam prior to this instance so I don't know if any other factors were at play.

KenTheWhaleGoddess commented 9 months ago

I have experienced this issue without hardware acceleration in web view.

inxi -F

Eiim commented 9 months ago

I seem to be experiencing this issue, albiet with an extra segfault, in WSL2 (admittedly, an uncommon use case). I'm using Ubuntu 22.04, and none of the fixes mentioned so far have worked for me (so far as I'm able to try them at least, -vgui makes no difference so I can't opt into Beta, nor disable GPU in webview). I have an RTX 3050, although I'm not certain how that plays here. I'm redirecting GUI output to Windows via Xserv, which works fine for the couple windows Steam pops up before it fails.

Portion of CLI output:

Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/eiim/.steam/debian-installation/logs

XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf64e3370
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf64e1cc0
steamwebhelper.sh[22460]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/eiim/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[22460]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 7 milliseconds to initialize
Segmentation fault
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 22587
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
steamwebhelper.sh[22703]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/eiim/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[22703]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()

pnlrogue1 commented 9 months ago

Fedora 38/ Full AMD user here. Originally used the -cef-disable-gpu flag, and that got me into it, but after some other (seemingly unrelated) Game weirdness I went into my BIOS and realized that even though my Mobo was defaulting to my Radeon, the iGPU was in fact not disabled. After disabling the iGPU, and only running with the discrete Radeon, I was able to turn off the flag and Steam starts up just fine after that. Hopefully this helps someone else out there.

This solved the issue for me (Linux Mint Edge 21.3 / Kernel 6.5 / Ryzen 7 7700X / Sapphire Radeon 7700 XT NITRO OC 12GB

Went into the BIOS, found the setting for the integrated graphics mode and set it to disabled. Steam worked immediately on reboot.

Weirdly, Steam ran find from the terminal when I invoked it with steam with no flags (though I didn't test any games) but when I ran it from the shortcut, it opened and crashed, then automatically opened and crash again over and over.

KenTheWhaleGoddess commented 8 months ago

Assert( Failed creating offscreen shared JS context ):/data/src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp:546 Assert( Failed to connect to master html process, created shared memory (spawn time 60.00) ):/data/src/common/html/chrome_ipc_client.cpp:1111

These are some symptoms found during launch attempts using steam -vgui and some of the recommendations above related to removing caches.

less /tmp/dumps/assert_....dmp

xxxx81 commented 8 months ago

For me under LMDE6 (Debian 12) it runs with the parameter "-cef-in-process-gpu" I had to try for quite a while until I found that out before it was absolutely impossible to get it to start and always hung at loading user data.

KenTheWhaleGoddess commented 8 months ago

@kisak-valve any chance you'll hire some of us on here to look at / address some of the issues seen on GitHub? We all have the time & passion to fix some of this, but we're excluded from helping.

xxxx81 commented 8 months ago

@KenTheWhaleGoddess Nice to hear that it works. If it does not work, deactivate the internet connection, start Steam and reactivate the internet when the client tries to log in. Apparently the problem is caused by several software bugs, no wonder with the software junk that Valve delivers.

radionaut commented 8 months ago

add another workaround to this issue: sudo rm -r /tmp/dumps/ fedora 39

smcv commented 8 months ago

add another workaround to this issue: sudo rm -r /tmp/dumps/

This is a workaround for the same symptom (a steamwebhelper crash) happening for a different reason, and is tracked at #10549 rather than here.

smcv commented 8 months ago

@kisak-valve, perhaps you could retitle this to something like "steamwebhelper crashing on Nvidia with GPU-accelerated web rendering (workaround in beta)" to narrow down its scope?

KenTheWhaleGoddess commented 6 months ago

Hi Kisak, thanks for keeping track of the issues.

I am on the beta version: Download skipped: /steam_client_publicbeta_ubuntu12 version 1715635533, installed version 1715635533, existing pending version 0 on Linux Mint

I noticed that after I delete GLCache (rm -rf) then start steam, some re-appear (~/.cache/nvidia/GLCache/...). When I delete the contents of GLCache the second time, steam will launch.

Thanks again

EOSRX24 commented 2 weeks ago

Same or similar issue here:

screenshot

Tried absolutely everything, no luck.

Although I found something:

journalxe.txt

EOSRX24 commented 2 weeks ago

I'm not sure if it's useful.

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