Steam won't stop (shut down) or use GPU on games

Hello everyone

I have at least two problem with steam at the moment.

  1. Games have not always launched as in this post (but today Deus-EX launched, so maybe the steam update this morning has fixed that, will provide more info about that when I have tried more games).
  2. Steam will not use GPU (I have nvidia-driver-450xx-prime installed, more info in inxi below). I run steam from Lutris, where I have enabled NVIDIA prime render offload, and Use discrete graphics. I can not enable Feral gamemode.
    3. Steam will not shut down at all. I started Steam with terminal to see what might be the cause. I copied termial output from approx when I selected Exit Steam (closing terminal solves this, but if I don't run it from termianl, steam won't shut down).
    No 3 does no longer apply, Steam has started to shut down on first try.

I have finally remembered gdm-prime and have installed that, so maybe I will be able to use GPU.

In the process of getting read/write privilege on the just formatted external HDD so I can install some games and check it out.

No cached sticky mapping in ActivateActionSet.[0930/090452.273081:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(270)] Crash reporting enabled for process: renderer
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)
[0930/090452.391072:ERROR:frame_sink_video_capturer_impl.cc(206)] Invalid resolutions constraints: 0x0 must not be greater than 0x0; and also within media::limits.
/data/src/common/pipes.cpp (843) : Assertion Failed: stalled cross-thread pipe
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)
assert_20200930090501_6.dmp[3216]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20200930090501_6.dmp
/data/src/clientdll/steamclient.cpp (821) : Assertion Failed: bufRet.TellPut() == sizeof(uint8)
assert_20200930090501_6.dmp[3216]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20200930090501_6.dmp[3216]: response: Discarded=1
assert_20200930090501_6.dmp[3216]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20200930090501_6.dmp'', upload yes: ''Discarded=1''
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 2167) failed to shut down

Haven’t had any luck finding this on the internet yet.

inxi -Fazy
[olividir@HP ~]$ inxi -Fazy
System:
  Kernel: 5.8.6-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 
  root=UUID=f90c1ec5-7cd7-47fb-bf4b-d2eb2320d764 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.0 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-cx0xxx 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 8478 v: 70.57 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.22 
  date: 04/21/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 35.7 Wh condition: 37.6/52.8 Wh (71%) volts: 12.8/11.6 
  model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Unknown 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: D6 
  L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 36812 
  Speed: 884 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 884 2: 844 3: 821 
  4: 820 5: 867 6: 870 7: 863 8: 878 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: nvidia v: 450.66 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 10de:1c8d 
  Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD 
  Integrated Webcam 
  type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-5:5 chip ID: 05c8:03bc 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 compositor: kwin_x11 
  driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: intel,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa 
  display ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") 
  diag: 394mm (15.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.7 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci 
  bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a348 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.6-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8822BE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822be v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822be 
  port: 4000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:b822 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 05:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.60 TiB used: 334.95 GiB (20.5%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW256HEHP-000H1 
  size: 238.47 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: CXB73H1Q scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: External USB 3.0 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> 
  rev: 5438 scheme: MBR 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD My Passport 0740 
  size: 465.73 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> 
  rev: 1007 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 238.17 GiB size: 233.43 GiB (98.01%) 
  used: 64.44 GiB (27.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: 29.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 265 Uptime: 20m Memory: 15.53 GiB used: 2.03 GiB (13.1%) 
  Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 alt: 9 clang: 10.0.1 
  Packages: 1340 pacman: 1317 lib: 368 flatpak: 13 snap: 10 Shell: Bash 
  v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05 

If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it. And will provide all info needed to solve this case

I think i had the same problem
just click again on stop

thats what i do

Yeah, I tried that, didn’t work.

Steam seems to have started to shut down on first attempt. Have no idea what changed, haven’t changed any settings. So that is ok now.

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