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Steam doesn't start after update

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I am running Xubuntu 14.04 64 bit. I installed Steam about 2 months ago, without using the 32 bit libs or anything. When it last prompted me for updates (yesterday), I didn't to update it and I haven't been able to start it since then.

Output when run from terminal:

$ steam

Running Steam on ubuntu 14.04 64-bit

STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1393366296_client)

Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']

/tmp/dumps/crash_20140504021210_1.dmp

/home/elie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 18302 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

mv: cannot stat ‘/home/elie/.steam/registry.vdf’: No such file or directory

Installing bootstrap /home/elie/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz

Reset complete!

Restarting Steam by request...

Running Steam on ubuntu 14.04 64-bit

STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/elie/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1393366296_client)

Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']

/tmp/dumps/crash_20140504021213_1.dmp

/home/elie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 18432 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes

response: CrashID=bp-548166d2-e868-46b4-ac37-b548b2140503

Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes

response: CrashID=bp-132434a3-69e3-4dff-96fe-a2be32140503

I tried installing 32 bit libs, updating my system, upgrading, reinstalling, deleting appcache.

What can I do?

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answered 2 Years ago cisccla · Accepted Answer

Two weeks ago there was a post on ubuntuforums.org about an extremly similar issue. The outputs you had was identical in all ways possible, only thing was he didn't have the issue during update, but rather installation.

According to this post there may be a difference between installing Steam from a PPA, Software Center, Synaptic or official DEB package. Installing it through all those sources you can be successful, according to the post.

Another very common issue is that the graphics drivers are "incorrect". Speaking from own experience, changing drivers and reinstalling can solve the issue. By changing I mean switch from Open Sourced drivers to Closed and vise versa.

When reinstalling Steam, if you don't want to delete your game data you should be able to follow ChrisR's suggestion of saving the SteamApps folder and then replace the new contents with your old save.

P.S. I apologize as this maybe should have been posted like a comment. The thing is, I don't have enough rep for that so I hope you'll except my vague attempt to an answer :)