steamwebhelper keeps crashing on startup

[VojislavMrdja]

Your system information

fastfetch.txt

• Steam client version (build number or date): steam 1.0.0.81-2 from the arch repo
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch (Linux 6.10.10-arch1-1)
• Opted into Steam client beta?: No
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
• Steam Logs: logs.tar.gz
• GPU: Radeon R7 M340 [Discrete] & Intel HD Graphics 620 [Integrated]
• Today's pacman log for good measure: pacmanlog.txt
• Pretty sure this is the coredump steam created: coredump.tar.gz

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Steam used to work fine until i ran a pacman -Syu today (09/15/2024) and steam just crashes on startup now, i don't have any weird symlinks or anything like that, just a standard steam install from the main arch repo. i tried running it with -vgui no change, with -cef-dissable-sanbox and -cef-disable-gpu also no change, i sometimes get the steamwebhelper has crashed what do you want to do window, but only sometimes, and other times it just keeps silently crashing and looping the log message in the terminal, closest issues i could find are #10548 , #10547 and #10560 but again i don't have any symlinks in place, i also have a desktop machine running the same version of arch and kde plasma wayland and the same version of steam from the main repo and it works just fine on that computer.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Open Steam via the desktop file or via the terminal
2. steamwebhelper keeps crashing and steam just keeps loading forever
3. no profit...

[VojislavMrdja]

All right, so I left the laptop open for a while and I just tried opening steam and it opened without issue, what was the problem? no idea, is it going to reoccur? again no idea, what fixed it? biggest mystery since the release date of portal 3.
I really hate those kinds of fixes, i will try rebooting a few times and doing some stuff inside steam to see if its all okay now, and if it is i will close the issue.

[VojislavMrdja]

I'm at my wits end here. Still got no idea what caused the issue or what fixed it, it might be some sort of race condition or something, but steam now opens at least, from the desktop file that is, if I try to do it from the terminal it gets stuck on trying to download some sort of update from an url and just stays there stuck, but at least I can open it from the shortcut. A dev should probably take a look at the logs and the dump I provided to try to figure out what the hell happened/ is happening. Closing as not fixed as I can't reproduce the crashing again.
Edit: I guess i cant close it myself? Whatever, valve please fix your shit, thanks very much in advance.

[VojislavMrdja]

Just figured out that pacman apparently had a big update yesterday and went from libalpm.so.14 to libalpm.so.15 which broke yay and some other stuff on my system, so this might just be an arch packaging issue.

[halozat]

can confirm, it does not work for me either.
failed to create dri2 screen