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Silviu C. (silviucc) wrote : kernel update breaks Steam

Hi.

Today I got this kernel as a security update. Unfortunately, it breaks Steam. It can't find its games library folders and also can't display the store page. dmesg is spammed with:

[ 2001.201704] sh[5599]: segfault at 3d2e32d0 ip 000000003d2e32d0 sp 00000000a940db10 error 14 in ld-2.19.so[7f1b3d2e2000+23000]
[ 2011.300353] sh[5604]: segfault at 882ef2d0 ip 00000000882ef2d0 sp 000000004e075d70 error 14 in ld-2.19.so[7ff7882ee000+23000]
[ 2021.491601] sh[5609]: segfault at 15f922d0 ip 0000000015f922d0 sp 0000000038f017f0 error 14 in ld-2.19.so[7fd415f91000+23000]
[ 2031.583681] sh[5614]: segfault at 31a6f2d0 ip 0000000031a6f2d0 sp 000000009b964400 error 14 in ld-2.19.so[7f9f31a6e000+23000]
[ 2041.677211] sh[5619]: segfault at a56812d0 ip 00000000a56812d0 sp 00000000081a60c0 error 14 in ld-2.19.so[7fd9a5680000+23000]
[ 2051.866351] sh[5624]: segfault at 505632d0 ip 00000000505632d0 sp 000000002e8c2b90 error 14 in ld-2.19.so[7f0e50562000+23000]
[ 2061.969499] sh[5629]: segfault at 8730e2d0 ip 000000008730e2d0 sp 00000000aa0611f0 error 14 in ld-2.19.so[7f958730d000+23000]
[ 2072.067331] sh[5634]: segfault at 438482d0 ip 00000000438482d0 sp 0000000094227310 error 14 in ld-2.19.so[7f5c43847000+23000]

Booting using kernel 3.13.0-58 solves the issue.

This problem is also discussed here:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3936