#1065066 /usr/games/steam: Unable to start Steam with error: "Steamwebhelper is not responding"

Package:
steam-installer
Source:
steam-installer
Submitter:
Jelle Haandrikman
Date:
2024-03-01 07:12:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1065066#5
Date:
2024-02-29 11:07:32 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,
Since 2024-02-27 a new release of Steam was installed. Client version
1709168962.

This release uses the Sniper runtime which causes Steamwebhelper to crash.
After starting Steam I get a window that shows "Steamwebhelper is not
responding" and the possibility to restart with different options. None of
these work.

Digging deeper see some problems with libcef.so and a core dump.

At the moment I'm unable to start Steam.

I reported an upstream bugreport with more information here:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10552

#1065066#10
Date:
2024-03-01 07:02:43 UTC
From:
To:
Fixed this issue by fixing my personal configuration.

I had my '~/.config' directory symlinked to a different directoy on a
SSD. Moving the '.config' directory back the the HDD where $HOME resides
solved this issue.

Closing this bug.