Steam crashes on 21.04

steam xorg

Turns out this is a bug in steam, which is currently (as of 28/06/2021) only available in the beta builds of steam client. You need to launch steam to switch to the beta builds, and when it doesn't launch, that's tricky. So for the moment, do the following:

  • Run steam --reset
  • Login to steam
  • If you use "family view" you may need to enter your pin
  • In steam, go to Steam menu -> Settings -> Beta participation -> Change button
  • In the "Beta Participation - Steam" window, change Beta participation drop-down from "NONE - Opt out of all beta programs" to "Steam beta update"

enter image description here

  • Click OK

enter image description here

  • Restart steam.
  • Steam will download an update

enter image description here

  • Steam will re-launch, into the beta.

Everything should work at this point. Feel free to opt back out of the beta once the above bug is in the stable release of steam client.

Related

How to save command output to specific line of text file
How to update binutils to get the security patches on Ubuntu 16.04 [closed]
What is the PPA for ubuntustudio-installer
Which desktop environment will let me jump to the next file with the same first letter in filename, when I press a key few times with delay [duplicate]
Hiding/disabling system-tray update notifier when there are no updates
Microsoft Pen Protocol support
Dell Active Pen PN350M not working properly
cannot find /etc/proxychains.conf after installing proxychains
How to switch monitor screens using keyboard shortcuts?
save Python list to a txt file in nice order [duplicate]
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'class-transformer/storage' - Angular Universal / NestJs
Golang: accessing map object outside the function it was declared in