Steam crashes at start

[vendion]

Describe the bug

After installing steam, it crashes when I try to launch it. Sometimes the crash happens when it is pulling the needed updates, other times it crashes when trying to login.

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Set programs.steam.enable = true;
2. Launch Steam
3. Profit?

Expected behavior

Steam to reliably launch allowing me to play games.

Additional context

Output captured by strace when trying to launch steam.

steam.txt

My current steam related settings:

{ pkgs, ... }:
{
  hardware.graphics.enable32Bit = true;
  programs = {
    steam = {
      enable = true;
      package = pkgs.steam.override {
        extraLibraries =
          p: with p; [
            (lib.getLib networkmanager)
          ];
      };
      remotePlay.openFirewall = true;
      dedicatedServer.openFirewall = true;
    };
  };
}

Attempted workarounds tried from another ticket:

Workarounds I tried:

1. Launching steam with steam -vgui
2. Launching steam with steam --reset
3. Removing $HOME/.cache/nvidia/GLCache directory, then launching steam.
4. Launching steam with steam -no-cef-sandbox
5. Overriding the steam package as suggested in Steam fails to launch on unstable #238101 (comment)

Notify maintainers

@jagajaga
@aidalgol

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

vendion on vili ~ took 65ms
➜ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
this path will be fetched (0.02 MiB download, 0.06 MiB unpacked):
  /nix/store/91d27rjqlhkzx7mhzxrir1jcr40nyc7p-stdenv-linux
copying path '/nix/store/91d27rjqlhkzx7mhzxrir1jcr40nyc7p-stdenv-linux' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.10.11-xanmod1, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20240929.06cf0e1`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.8`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/r2hk87rfvc5fpfbl2bj64a3x7mcq9f6c-source`

[aidalgol]

I'm not actually a Steam nixpkgs maintainer; I just submitted an update to the Steam bootstrap package recently.

[vendion]

Okay, sorry for the tag then.

[TrudeEH]

Steam also crashes for me...

steamwebhelper.sh[829938]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap sniper steam runtime via /home/trude/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper.sh
src/vgui2/src/surface_linux.cpp (1954) : glXChooseVisual failed
src/vgui2/src/surface_linux.cpp (1954) : glXChooseVisual failed
src/vgui2/src/surface_linux.cpp (1954) : Fatal assert; application exiting
src/vgui2/src/surface_linux.cpp (1954) : Fatal assert; application exiting
10/15 19:23:12 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1726604483)/tid(829842)
steamwebhelper.sh[829938]: CEF sandbox already disabled
steamwebhelper.sh[829938]: Starting steamwebhelper with Sniper steam runtime at /home/trude/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper/_v2-entry-point
assert_20241015192312_8.dmp[829989]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20241015192312_8.dmp

And, nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m":

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.6.54, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20241009.5633bcf`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.8`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-24.05"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/60sn02zhawl3kwn0r515zff3h6hg6ydz-source`

[JayRovacsek]

+1

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.6.53, NixOS, 24.11 (Vicuna), 24.11.20241001.1839883`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Lix, like Nix) 2.91.0
 - channels(jay): `""`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/store/7qkcm6k8phjcjndpqxh2p6why320dqsq-source`

[tdillenburg]

I was having a similar issue. This override fixed it: #351180 (comment)

[K900]

Please test #351928.

[NovaViper]

Hey @K900 I can confirm that the PR fixes the crashing for me!