Steam crashing constantly after loading (since 41.20250314)
Steam loads, then there is a black window, then it crashes (window closes), then I see the window again, then crash again, this repeats until I close steam from the sys tray.
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bazzite/system_files/desktop/shared/usr/bin/bazzite-steam at abeed9...
Bazzite is a custom Fedora Atomic image built with cloud native technology that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld. - ublue-os/bazzite
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ujust fix-reset-steam in terminal first and see if that helps since we do not develop steam and sometimes steam fumbles over itselfthanks, steam is downloading again now after this command, hopefully this fixes it
tends to help since this is only affecting you and not everyone
unfortunately that didnt fix it, its giving the same error
then we are in "no idea" territory since we do not make steam
could be a bug in steam that is hardware specific
yeah that sucks
should i report it upstream?
you can try report it to their
steam-on-linux repository
you can also try rebase to an older version to bazzite to figure out if its an incompatibility with some packageohh that might work ill look into it
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thanks!
if an older version of bazzite works, try find the date it changed to not working and which version/date worked before that to narrow things down
it did work before on an older bazzite version, i ll see if it works now
would it be risky to try the unstable versions to like see which change could have caused it?
if you want to be very thorough, use testing
unstable is used for highly experimental stuff and i think it is very far behind stable at this point
ohh ok thanks
fwiw i booted to the last stable version and steam works now
hmm ok so something that changed in testing might have caused the issue at some point
lets see what changed between current stable and last stable
mesa changed
kde changed
kernel changed
these changed separately in testing i believe so you can play the rebase game with testing to try pin it down
ok thanks i ll try to do this now, its probably mesa
also just adding this here before i go to bed
might be worth mentioning what your hardware is, for both your issues
I tried multiple testing releases till I got to the first testing release after the last stable release and that didn't work either
so its probably something between testing-41.20250303 and stable 41.20250301.1
looking at the release notes I notice something about steam cleanup
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/releases/tag/testing-41.20250303
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pull/2323
GitHub
Release testing-41.20250303: Testing (F41.20250303, #a867b14) · ubl...
This is an automatically generated changelog for release testing-41.20250303.
From previous testing version testing-41.20250301 there have been the following changes. One package per new version sh...
thanks for all the help so far
that cleanup just removes a download speed fix that is now automatic in steam and a now un-needed fix for hybrid setups (igpu+dgpu setup)
ohh idk then, I guess it could be the kde update
but if you want to test the old steam script you can just download it and run it
ok i ll try that
let me find it
Solution
GitHub
bazzite/system_files/desktop/shared/usr/bin/bazzite-steam at abeed9...
Bazzite is a custom Fedora Atomic image built with cloud native technology that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld. - ublue-os/bazzite
thanks!
do i just run from the terminal?
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yep
just download the file and just run it in the terminal
can even do
bash filenamemy internet broke yesterday so I couldn't reply lol
sorry
the steam script worked so I think this issue is solved
thanks for all the help