Simon McVittie

I think there might be several different things causing this same symptom, and if we let those stay as the same issue report, it quickly becomes really confusing. Let's treat...

@micb25: Because you mentioned `~/.local/share/Steam`, I think you are using Steam installed from a "native" OS-level package (RPM from rpmfusion, or similar) rather than installed via the Flatpak app from...

@Guanran928, please could you open your own, separate issue, and make sure to mention `GTK_IM_MODULE=wayland` in the title? The fact that you can work around the crash you're seeing by...

> Contents of the directory on the broken Fedora 38 installation: Yes, this is clearly incomplete. During a previous run of Steam, the `steamwebhelper.sh` and `steam-runtime-sniper.sh` scripts unpacked `steam-runtime-sniper.tar.xz` into...

@micb25, @Exzou, @asdfjkluiop: Please could you check whether you have an incomplete `steam-linux-runtime-sniper/` directory, like @Arcitec did? It should be in `ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper` relative to your top-level Steam directory. For most...

> I can recommend using `set -e` in Steam's scripts in general, to catch all errors. I would recommend that too, but the scripts that are relevant to this issue...

@kisak-valve, would you mind renaming this issue to reflect what we have diagnosed from @Arcitec and distinguish it from other reasons why steamwebhelper might be broken? Perhaps something like: ```...

@micb25: Your steamwebhelper crash does not look related to the one initially reported here, so please report it as a separate issue. Unfortunately, I can't find anything obvious in your...

> I am completely stumped how this could have happened then. Yes, me too :-( The only theory I have come up with so far is that you might somehow...

@asdfjkluiop: > I don't even have a steam-runtime-sniper folder in `~/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64`. I do have `~/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper.new` however it's completely empty. OK, this is weird. The next time you start Steam, it...